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April 08, 2024
An ex-Behemoth worker asked the Ninth Circuit on Monday to order a new trial after a jury rejected his sexual harassment and hostile work environment suit against the video game company, arguing the district court erroneously allowed jurors to hear about his sex life and vulgar speech.
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April 08, 2024
Red Robin has agreed to pay $600,000 and bolster its anti-sexual harassment policies to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging a line cook in Washington state retaliated against female co-workers for objecting to his offensive comments, according to a proposed consent decree filed in federal court in Seattle.
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April 08, 2024
The Seventh Circuit refused to revive a former mail carrier's lawsuit alleging she was barred from working because she asked for time off to prepare a discrimination complaint, finding Monday the worker was sent home based on medical restrictions stemming from a back injury.
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April 08, 2024
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Monday that the state's major losses last year in cases involving gay rights and prosecuting threatening speech were part of what he views as a trend at the U.S. Supreme Court of hampering efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion.
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April 08, 2024
Two workers asked a California federal court to deny a request from X, formerly Twitter, to pause discovery in their suit alleging it stiffed employees on $500 million in severance pay when it conducted mass layoffs following Elon Musk's takeover, saying the move will create unnecessary delay.
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April 08, 2024
Drexel University was accused Monday of discrimination by an administrator, who claimed its chief operating officer refused her request to meet one-on-one ahead of a group meeting with a subordinate and that the group meeting be held via telephone instead of video.
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April 08, 2024
A staffing agency will pay $2.2 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the employer worked with a laundry facility to illegally exclude Black people and those with disabilities from jobs and to hire men and women only for gendered roles.
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April 08, 2024
An Illinois federal judge refused to toss an ex-worker's lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, saying she had enough evidence to get her claim that she was denied overtime because of a wrist injury before a jury, but failed to show that age discrimination was at play.
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April 08, 2024
WWE's disgraced founder Vince McMahon, who was recently accused of trafficking a former employee, continues to loosen his grip on the wrestling company he founded, most recently selling $311 million worth of stock in WWE's parent, according to a Monday securities filing.
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April 08, 2024
A former GM worker told the Seventh Circuit it should intervene in his suit alleging his United Auto Workers local withdrew a grievance over his termination without telling him because he's Black, arguing a trial court judge ignored the appeals court's previous instructions when ending the suit.
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April 08, 2024
A Missouri federal judge tossed a black worker's suit Monday claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs subjected him to a racially hostile work environment and suspended him for complaining about it, ruling he didn't put forward proof that bias drove the agency's decision making.
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April 08, 2024
A school-choice nonprofit must offer to reinstate an employee who was fired after telling co-workers she believed her supervisor was racist, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, reconsidering the case after the board used the dispute to hold federal labor law protects worker advocacy for nonemployees.
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April 08, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has expanded the labor and employment department in its Dallas office after opening the office late last year, bringing on a former longtime Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner to serve as its founding L&E partner in the North Texas city, the firm announced on Monday.
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April 08, 2024
Three doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case challenging Michigan State University's vaccine mandate after the Sixth Circuit backed the suit's dismissal, arguing that the circuit court should have applied a stricter standard when considering whether the government could interfere with patients' medical decisions.
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April 08, 2024
The Denver sheriff's department promoted three women between 2019 and 2021 while skipping over a more qualified sergeant and his colleague because of a self-imposed quota for female officers, according to a complaint filed in Colorado federal court.
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April 08, 2024
A financial services firm abruptly fired a sales producer without any investigation after a female colleague who wanted him gone made false accusations about him, the producer said in a suit filed in Texas federal court.
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April 08, 2024
Two insurance underwriting syndicates hit back at a London claim from an international hospitality group that wants to be indemnified for two putative class actions alleging sex discrimination against men and nonbinary people at a California nightclub.
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April 05, 2024
Sean "Diddy" Combs and his son, Christian Combs, were sued Thursday in California state court by a woman alleging the younger Combs sexually assaulted her aboard a yacht while she was working as a stewardess, and that there is an audio recording of part of the incident.
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April 05, 2024
A University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley assistant tennis coach has accused the school in federal court of letting her go after a "sham investigation" because she is gay.
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April 05, 2024
"Vanderpump Rules" alumnus Faith Stowers sued NBC, Evolution Media and Bravo for discrimination and retaliation in California state court Friday, alleging she was threatened with legal action when she tried to speak up about the ill-treatment she suffered during taping, including racist slurs and having a knife brandished at her.
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April 05, 2024
An adult entertainment store can't avoid a suit alleging it favored transgender employees and fired a cisgender male sales clerk for minor infractions, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, rejecting the retailer's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision didn't apply to the case.
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April 05, 2024
FuboTV Inc. has resolved a lawsuit alleging the streaming company demoted and then fired a producer for taking 12 weeks of paternity leave while rewarding men who didn't take time off for a child's birth, the company and former employee told a New York federal court.
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April 05, 2024
The Ninth Circuit declined to revive a lawsuit from an attorney who said the Social Security Administration put workers over 40 at a disadvantage by steering job postings to younger candidates, ruling she hadn't shown that the SSA's actions had a disproportionate impact on older workers.
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April 05, 2024
A school district asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday to toss or at least decertify a collective action alleging it paid male teachers more than women who had similar experience, arguing that the workers couldn't show they had enough in common to justify a group action.
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April 05, 2024
A federal contractor settled claims that it slammed the brakes on hiring a naturalized citizen after finding out that she was not born in the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice said.