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November 15, 2024
The University of Colorado Boulder has agreed to pay $4.5 million to resolve a proposed class action claiming hundreds of female faculty members were owed back pay after the school raised their salaries without making up for years of undercompensation, according to a state court filing.
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November 15, 2024
The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of an 80-year-old Trader Joe's employee's suit claiming she was fired from the grocery chain out of age bias, ruling Friday that she failed to show that bias drove the company's call to terminate her after she admitted to buying beer for her underage grandson.
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November 15, 2024
Six Republican senators wrote a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Inspector General Jennifer L. Fain asking for a briefing on the FDIC's progress investigating claims of widespread misconduct at the agency, asserting there has been "a shocking lack of urgency."
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November 15, 2024
Three religious groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a fire chief's suit claiming he was fired from a California city because of his Christian beliefs, arguing the Ninth Circuit opened a pathway for employers to discriminate based on religion when it backed the case's dismissal.
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November 15, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense must face a school psychologist's lawsuit claiming his supervisor unlawfully forced him to take a breath alcohol test because of his history of alcoholism, with a D.C. federal judge rejecting the government's argument that the request didn't alter his employment conditions.
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November 15, 2024
This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 15, 2024
A federal judge cast aside the "incredulous" defenses of a Georgia district attorney accused of denying a female attorney a promotion, finding her liable for sex discrimination after previously hitting the DA with a default order for her attempts to dodge being deposed.
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November 15, 2024
The Seventh Circuit refused to reinstate a suit from a Black former General Motors worker who said a United Auto Workers local ignored a grievance he filed alleging that race bias cost him his job, saying he failed to explain why it took him years to challenge the union's decision.
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November 15, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a nearly $3.5 million deal in a wage and hour class action involving entities operating a vision care health insurance company. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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November 14, 2024
The Phoenix Suns' former head of diversity, equity and inclusion sued the NBA franchise on Thursday, accusing it of continuing the racial discrimination, harassment and toxic workplace behavior that led to former owner Robert Sarver being pushed out two years ago.
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November 14, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a federal court to shoot down Texas' challenge to workplace harassment guidance the agency issued based on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the state failed to demonstrate that the guidelines had caused them any harm.
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November 14, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday trimmed a lawsuit by a former employee of an AutoNation affiliate who says he was sexually harassed on the job by a co-worker, but agreed to send negligence and hostile work environment claims to a jury in January.
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November 14, 2024
UPS can't make a driver arbitrate his sick leave and wage class claims against the company, a Colorado federal judge ruled, finding the plaintiff is part of a group of workers who are exempt under federal arbitration law because their jobs are linked to interstate commerce.
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November 14, 2024
The First Circuit refused to reopen a former Transportation Security Administration officer's lawsuit claiming she was denied a lighter work schedule because of her fibromyalgia and fired because she was pregnant, finding she was warned multiple times that her frequent absences could lead to termination.
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November 14, 2024
A Michigan Supreme Court ruling enforcing a notice requirement for lawsuits filed against the state government does not apply retroactively to cases filed in the last few years because it "reflected a 180-degree change in the law," a Michigan Court of Appeals panel said Wednesday.
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November 14, 2024
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel Karla Gilbride weighed in Thursday on when it may be considered unlawful to make an employee sit through a workplace training session they disagree with, following two recent, worker-friendly U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
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November 14, 2024
A Washington federal judge rejected an artificial intelligence company's bid to narrow a former employee's suit claiming she was fired for complaining about male workers getting better treatment, rejecting the company's argument that her case lacked adequate details.
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November 14, 2024
Two married ex-associates suing Jones Day over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy want the firm to hand over a memo from 1994, which they claim could be key to the bitterly contested case.
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November 14, 2024
Johnson & Johnson was sued in Georgia federal court Wednesday by a former employee who said she was discriminated against for her disabilities, then fired for failing to relocate to New Jersey despite an agreement allowing her to work remotely from any East Coast location.
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November 14, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union can't avoid a Black former analytics department employee's lawsuit claiming he was demoted and ultimately fired for speaking out against racism, with a New York federal judge ruling jurors should weigh the group's explanation that his lackluster work merited termination.
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November 14, 2024
A UPS manager can't move forward with a discrimination lawsuit against an Indianapolis Teamsters local because the union doesn't represent or employ him, the union told an Indiana federal judge, asking him to toss the suit.
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November 14, 2024
A worker's suit claiming a tortilla manufacturer failed to step in when a male co-worker subjected her to unwanted touching on the job was tossed by an Illinois federal judge, stating that while the incidents were "distasteful" they weren't so severe to cause a sexually hostile work environment.
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November 14, 2024
Jason C. Schwartz, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, secured rulings from the bench in a case about his client Fearless Foundation's awarding of grants to Black female entrepreneurs and in another dispute representing DraftKings as the company sought to stop a former executive from soliciting customers ahead of the Super Bowl, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
A Florida city urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Eleventh Circuit's finding that the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't protect against bias that occurs post-employment for former employees, arguing that an ex-firefighter who challenged the ruling is trying to write an exception for retirees into the law.
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November 13, 2024
A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday refused to reconsider his finding that a challenge by U.S. Air Force personnel to the military's now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccination mandate on religious grounds is moot, holding there is no live controversy to keep the case going.