December 15, 2023
A $36 million jury verdict that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission secured in September on behalf of a deaf truck driver denied a job marked one of many eight-digit damages awards that workers won in discrimination battles this past year. Here's a look at five major trial victories for workers in the past 12 months.
October 27, 2023
Omni Hotels & Resorts can't get a new trial in a suit where a jury said it owed a former food and beverage manager $25.1 million because it paid her less than male predecessors, a Texas federal judge ruled, but cut her damages to the $300,000 statutory limit.
March 10, 2023
A Texas federal jury said Omni Hotels & Resorts should give a former food and beverage manager over $25 million for paying her less than male predecessors who had her job, finding her compensation would've been higher if she hadn't been a woman.