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June 07, 2024
A former Thomson Reuters data scientist says he was fired after complaining about an allegedly racially hostile work environment toward white people, including the removal of his posts criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement from a company message board.
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June 07, 2024
John Deere has agreed to pay $1.1 million to the U.S. Department of Labor to shutter an investigation alleging the agricultural manufacturing company declined to employ nearly 300 Black and Hispanic workers through systemic hiring discrimination, the agency announced.
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June 07, 2024
In finding Friday that an order for several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" should be permanently placed on hold while an appeal of a flight attendant's Title VII trial win is pending, the Fifth Circuit said the district court had likely exceeded "the scope of the court's civil-contempt authority."
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June 07, 2024
K&L Gates partner and former Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs director Craig Leen told Law360 in an exclusive interview that conservatives and liberals actually hold similar views on workplace diversity, equity and inclusion that are getting lost in a fog of politics.
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June 07, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit backed a Georgia motorcycle dealership's defeat of a former employee's suit alleging he was fired because he's Black, finding Friday he failed to connect a white supervisor's alleged racial animus with the Black dealership owner's decision to let him go.
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June 07, 2024
Cozen O'Connor brought on a veteran employment lawyer from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC in Boston, who comes with experience working in the public sector that he said allows him to help companies navigate any type of employment suit that comes their way.
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June 07, 2024
A workforce development company will pay $125,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired an employee for taking time off to treat medical conditions that arose during her high-risk pregnancy, according to a New Mexico federal court filing.
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June 07, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel breathed new life Friday into a private Christian university's lawsuit accusing Washington state's attorney general of improperly investigating its anti-LGBTQ+ hiring practices, finding the possibility of potential future enforcement gives the school standing to sue.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 06, 2024
A former Telemundo advertising executive urged an Eleventh Circuit panel Thursday to reverse a lower court's ruling to dismiss her sexual harassment lawsuit against the company, saying she sufficiently alleged a hostile work environment after reporting sexual harassment by her supervisors.
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June 06, 2024
PNC National Bank has reached an agreement to end a former employee's racial discrimination suit in a federal court in Pittsburgh, the parties said Wednesday.
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June 06, 2024
A pharmacy recruited workers who have hemophilia or family members with the condition and pressured them to let the company take over their prescriptions and switch to medications that would benefit the pharmacy financially, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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June 06, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit this week blocked a venture capital fund's grant program for Black women entrepreneurs, a ruling that experts say will only embolden opponents of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, and should serve as the latest warning to employers to fine-tune their inclusion initiatives. Here, Law360 looks at three observations discrimination lawyers had after Monday's ruling.
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June 06, 2024
A Georgia federal jury awarded a Black tech company worker $535,000 in damages after finding he was fired in retaliation for complaining that his supervisor discriminated against him and that he was denied a raise because of his race.
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June 06, 2024
A Florida-based Navy information technology worker urged the Eleventh Circuit in a hearing Thursday to reverse a lower court's decision to toss his discrimination lawsuit, saying he was passed over for promotion because he was Hispanic and older than other candidates despite being the best qualified.
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June 06, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Louisiana federal court to reject Catholic institutions' attempt to block recently finalized Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, arguing the religious organizations' concerns about abortion accommodations rely on a series of speculative uncertainties.
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June 06, 2024
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at Whole Foods is protected under federal labor law, a group of workers argued to the National Labor Relations Board, saying employees wore BLM masks and attire on the job to push the company to confront racial bias in the workplace.
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June 06, 2024
The general manager of the Harlem Globetrotters declined to renew a female player's contract after she rejected his romantic advances, and covered up the scheme by blaming the nonrenewal on her inability to learn a basketball maneuver, according to a Georgia federal court suit.
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June 06, 2024
A Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP partner has been added as a defendant in a racial discrimination lawsuit a former Black associate filed, who now claims the partner, a formerly supportive mentor, made the decision to fire her after she complained about an email the associate described as racist.
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June 06, 2024
Rather than having a Pennsylvania federal judge who has presided over their equal-pay case for years recuse himself over having a son-in-law who's a shareholder at Cozen O'Connor, a class of female teachers asked the court to kick Cozen O'Connor PC off the case Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
The maker of Tastykake snacks can't escape the bulk of a Black, Muslim ex-worker's suit claiming it unfairly docked time from him for taking prayer breaks, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, finding the suit could stay in court even though it read as a "disjointed laundry list" of grievances.
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June 06, 2024
A trucking and logistics company will pay $65,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it denied a worker's request to rest on the Sabbath and ignored his complaints that his colleagues harassed him, according to an Ohio federal court filing Thursday.
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June 05, 2024
A Palestinian American software engineer at Meta Platforms Inc. said his former employer has a "chronic anti-Palestinian bias," and he was fired in the midst of trying to address the company's problems with needlessly censoring Palestinian social media posts, according to a suit filed in California state court.
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June 05, 2024
An American Federation of Musicians local urged a New York federal court Wednesday to dismiss duty of fair representation claims from two orchestra musicians, arguing that the plaintiffs didn't raise allegations of "any plausible violation" of an arbitration award reinstating the duo.
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June 05, 2024
The Catholic Radio Association is up in arms over the Federal Communications Commission's new workforce diversity reporting mandates that will require broadcasters to report how many nonbinary people they employ, telling the agency they're being forced to record something that "does not comport to reality."