May 22, 2023
Equinox Holdings Inc. urged a Manhattan federal judge Monday to vacate a jury verdict finding it created a hostile work environment and discriminated against a Black, female personal training manager, saying the evidence does not support her claims or justify the "extreme, unconscionable damages awards" of nearly $11.3 million.
May 16, 2023
A Manhattan federal jury decided Tuesday that Equinox Holdings Inc. must pay $11.25 million for failing to stop racist and sexist treatment of a Black, female personal training manager at the luxury gym's East 92nd Street location.
May 15, 2023
A Manhattan federal jury deliberated for just over an hour Monday before finding that Equinox Holdings Inc. discriminated against a Black, female former personal training manager and subjected her to a racist and sexist work environment.
May 05, 2023
Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel will argue to the Second Circuit on Tuesday that the company isn't required to provide information to a union about the effects of the hotel's closure in 2020. Here, Law360 looks at this dispute and other major labor and employment cases in New York.
September 12, 2022
Equinox can't escape most of a Black former personal trainer's bias claims that she was subjected to racist comments by co-workers and barred from working with white clients, as a New York federal judge ruled the conduct was pervasive enough to be unlawful but that her firing wasn't retaliatory.
September 22, 2020
Fitness chain Equinox did nothing to stop a Black trainer from receiving racist and sexist remarks from a client and a co-worker at one of its New York City gyms and later fired her when she complained, the trainer said Tuesday in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.