U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte Burrows and Commissioner Andrea Lucas both warned attendees at a New York University law school event Wednesday to stay vigilant about federal anti-discrimination law, though they expressed differing perspectives on the hot-button issue of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Colorado moved to the forefront of regulating artificial intelligence by requiring that developers and users of "high-risk" programs mitigate algorithmic discrimination, enacting a law experts say could serve as a model for other jurisdictions, as well as employers looking to stay ahead of the curve. Here are four questions employment attorneys are asking about the novel statute.
The Seventh Circuit appeared reluctant Tuesday to revive a former Honeywell engineer's suit claiming he was unlawfully fired after declining to watch a training film he said discriminated against white people, with judges questioning how the ex-worker could prevail if he never saw the video.
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte Burrows and Commissioner Andrea Lucas both warned attendees at a New York University law school event Wednesday to stay vigilant about federal anti-discrimination law, though they expressed differing perspectives on the hot-button issue of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Colorado moved to the forefront of regulating artificial intelligence by requiring that developers and users of "high-risk" programs mitigate algorithmic discrimination, enacting a law experts say could serve as a model for other jurisdictions, as well as employers looking to stay ahead of the curve. Here are four questions employment attorneys are asking about the novel statute.
The Seventh Circuit appeared reluctant Tuesday to revive a former Honeywell engineer's suit claiming he was unlawfully fired after declining to watch a training film he said discriminated against white people, with judges questioning how the ex-worker could prevail if he never saw the video.
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May 22, 2024
A Florida federal judge declined to hand an information technology company an early win in a former worker's suit claiming he was fired after he took medical leave to treat anxiety, ruling that there are enough disputes over whether the company acted illegally to send the case to trial.
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May 22, 2024
A four-justice concurrence to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme last week carries implications for other cases pending before the court that challenge the so-called administrative state, or the permanent cadre of regulatory agencies and career government enforcers who hold sway over vast swaths of American economic life.
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May 22, 2024
A former Detroit trial court judge's failure to object to a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss her claims means she cannot continue to pursue a discrimination and defamation complaint against the state's judicial disciplinary board, a federal judge in Michigan ruled Wednesday.
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May 22, 2024
The Sixth Circuit refused Wednesday to reopen a former Michigan county employee's lawsuit claiming she wasn't allowed to work from home or follow a flexible schedule because of her attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, finding she didn't show these accommodations would help her successfully do her job.
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May 22, 2024
The Sixth Circuit upheld a win Wednesday for FedEx in a suit brought by a Black worker who said she was fired out of racial animus after an altercation with a co-worker, unswayed by her argument that the lower court's handling of her case was fatally flawed.
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May 22, 2024
Ohio State University reached a tentative deal Wednesday with a former marketing professor to end her lawsuit accusing the school of firing her for working with outside clients while male colleagues escaped retribution, a notice in federal court said.
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May 22, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a former sales specialist's suit claiming a medical supply company violated federal disability law by refusing to separate her from a co-worker whose girlfriend had cyberstalked her, finding the company didn't know about her anxiety until after denying the requests.
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May 22, 2024
A California federal judge threw out a former Amazon executive's suit alleging the online retail behemoth unlawfully fired her after complaining that a male counterpart earned more than her, ruling that revisions to her suit hadn't fixed the lack of detail previously called out by the court.
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May 22, 2024
A medical clinic fired a scheduling assistant on her first day of work after learning she suffers from vision impairments that make it difficult for her to read a computer screen, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Maryland federal court.
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May 21, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge shut down the state justice department's bid to stop an attorney from calling witnesses and offering exhibits in her discrimination trial, according to a docket order that appears to give the plaintiff more time to prepare.
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May 21, 2024
The Texas attorney general requested Tuesday that a federal judge do away with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance over gender identity and Title VII, arguing that the agency must be stopped from requiring employers' compliance with pronoun and bathroom accommodations.
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May 21, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to dismiss an age bias suit brought against Major League Baseball by a group of 40-and-older scouts and instead transferred the case to New York, saying he was using his discretionary authority because most defendants have no ties to his district.
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May 21, 2024
New York's highest court on Tuesday upheld a state law requiring employee health plans to cover medically necessary abortions, finding a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court decision didn't change the state court's determination that an exemption process in the law was constitutional.
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May 21, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday backed General Motors' defeat of an engineer's lawsuit claiming he was harassed and transferred to less lucrative jobs because he's over 50, ruling he failed to show that a supervisor's sporadic comments created a hostile work environment.
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May 21, 2024
Several food companies will pay $245,000 to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging a predecessor company's executive harassed employees with crude comments and unwanted touching and then fired workers who complained about it, a filing in California federal court said.
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May 21, 2024
Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. has agreed to pay $800,000 to resolve U.S. Department of Labor allegations that it refused to hire qualified Black applicants for welding positions at an Illinois facility, the agency said Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
A Puerto Rico federal jury handed a $200,000 win to a nurse in her suit accusing a government agency of standing by as a co-worker threatened to stab her and fabricated complaints against her after she alleged the colleague's friend sexually harassed her.
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May 21, 2024
A conservative nonprofit on Tuesday hit the American Bar Association with a Title VI complaint, claiming a handful of "nefarious" ABA-led programs meant to connect minority law school students with judges are "racially discriminatory."
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May 21, 2024
The co-chair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's employment advice and counseling practice has joined Littler Mendelson PC's Providence, Rhode Island, office, the firm announced.
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May 21, 2024
The 400 largest law firms by headcount in the U.S. grew more slowly in 2023 than in the previous two years, while Kirkland & Ellis LLP surpassed the 3,000-attorney threshold, according to the latest Law360 ranking.
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May 21, 2024
The legal market expanded more tentatively in 2023 than in previous years amid a slowdown in demand for legal services, especially in transactions, an area that has been sluggish but is expected to quicken in the near future.
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May 21, 2024
Two female former human resources workers for a medical management company and a podiatrist center told a Georgia federal court they had agreed to drop their lawsuit accusing their ex-employers of discriminating against them based on gender, reclassifying them as hourly and firing them for complaining.
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May 21, 2024
The Third Circuit reopened a class action Tuesday accusing American Airlines of unlawfully denying pilots pay for short military assignments while compensating employees for jury duty and bereavement leave, ruling a trial is needed to determine whether time off for military service is fungible with paid absences.
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May 20, 2024
A Los Angeles judge on Monday granted AMC's request to arbitrate claims brought by a television producer who says he was sexually assaulted by "Hannibal" creator Bryan Fuller while working on a docuseries for the cable channel and also stayed claims against Fuller and all defendants.
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May 20, 2024
Colorado's governor has approved the nation's first framework to clamp down on algorithmic discrimination in certain artificial intelligence technologies, although he expressed several "reservations" about the measure that he urged the Legislature to address before the law takes effect in 2026.