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June 24, 2026
A Maryland State Police sergeant must face a lawsuit alleging he excluded two Black task force members from meetings and failed to address a subordinate officer's racist text message, with the Fourth Circuit ruling Wednesday that a reasonable supervisor would've understood his actions violated civil rights law.
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June 24, 2026
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it will convene next week to consider a new four-year strategic plan and proposals to eliminate several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.
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June 24, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed what his administration called a first-of-its-kind executive order directing city agencies to develop heat-safety protections for workers who face dangerous temperatures on the job, his office announced.
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June 24, 2026
Foreign workers asked a Georgia federal judge to approve a $2.7 million settlement to resolve class action claims that an Atlanta-area building materials supplier and staffing and recruiting agencies violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and a state racketeering law.
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June 24, 2026
The question of whether a worker consents to arbitrate even if they don't open emails containing opt-out instructions for an arbitration pact, which the Ninth Circuit is considering, hinges on if the worker acknowledged having received the emails, attorneys said.
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June 24, 2026
A New York federal judge tossed a Black former executive secretary's suit claiming a cancer institute denied her request to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic out of racial bias, ruling she couldn't overcome evidence that her job required an in-office presence.
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June 24, 2026
Waffle House was sued by a former server who alleges the restaurant chain collected an unlawful tobacco surcharge from employees enrolled in its health plan without offering a compliant wellness program or properly notifying workers of how to avoid the fee.
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June 24, 2026
The District of Columbia's water utility will pay over $216,700 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a 54-year-old human resources employee and replaced him with someone two decades younger, according to a federal court filing.
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June 23, 2026
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.
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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.
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June 23, 2026
The Fifth Circuit revived part of a Black nurse's discrimination suit Tuesday after finding a lower court was too quick to nix claims that she faced racist harassment on the job, highlighting evidence that she faced frequent racially disparaging remarks from her fellow nurses.
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June 23, 2026
A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.
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June 23, 2026
A former Detroit police officer failed to get his bias, retaliation and hostile work environment suit revived, as a Michigan appeals court found he had not shown that his firing was tied to his Nigerian national origin, race or sex.
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June 23, 2026
New York state and the U.S. Department of Justice have filed dueling lawsuits over the state's new laws banning federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks and seeking to rein in immigration enforcement in the Empire State.
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June 23, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.
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June 23, 2026
The ongoing proliferation of state and local efforts to regulate artificial intelligence technology in the workplace isn't likely to let up, requiring employers to stay on top of an expanding patchwork of compliance obligations, the Society for Human Resource Management's chief administrative officer told Law360 in an exclusive interview.
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June 23, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the U.S. Postal Service's win over a white former Georgia postmaster's lawsuit alleging she was suspended for complaining that a Black mail carrier had threatened her, finding the bulk of her claims were filed too late.
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June 23, 2026
The New York City Department of Education owes a former employee nearly $2 million in damages, a New York federal jury concluded, after crediting her disability discrimination claims that she was blocked from attending physical therapy appointments to treat injuries caused by a violent parent.
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June 23, 2026
A federal judge has tossed a former cancer physician's federal equal pay claim against a cancer center in Buffalo, New York, accepting a magistrate judge's recommendation that she failed to show male comparators performed substantially equal work.
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June 22, 2026
Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.
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June 22, 2026
Workday can't cut California law claims from a proposed class action alleging its artificial intelligence tools discriminated against job applicants, as a federal judge ruled Monday that the company's Golden State headquarters provided a solid enough foundation for the state-based allegations.
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June 22, 2026
The ex-CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union asked a Connecticut state judge on Monday to dismiss portions of the credit union's two counterclaims asking him to return $80,000 for services he didn't perform because he was fired, saying it was not the correct party to bring such counterclaims.
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June 22, 2026
Two men who served as fire chief in the city of High Point, North Carolina, must face a firefighter's claims that they retaliated against him for speaking up about workplace issues in his capacity as union president, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, denying the men's motion for summary judgment.
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June 22, 2026
Uber Technologies Inc. executives and board directors have fostered a culture of noncompliance and lax safety that has exposed the ride-hailing giant to thousands of sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuits, according to a new shareholder derivative suit in California federal court Monday.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor hit a worker with poor performance reviews and denied him pay bumps after he sought disability accommodations and complained that his co-worker fiancée faced sex harassment and race bias on the job, according to a new federal lawsuit.