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November 21, 2025
An Illinois roofing company failed to address racist remarks and inappropriate sexual comments regularly made by a subsidiary's vice president and other employees, ultimately forcing a worker to resign, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a suit Friday.
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November 21, 2025
A Baltimore-area hospital accused the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of mischaracterizing a deaf nurse's medical restrictions and accommodation request to prop up a disability bias suit, telling a Maryland federal court the agency's deception warrants tossing the case.
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November 21, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit said Friday it couldn't wade into a worker's push to revive claims that AT&T illegally faulted employees for pregnancy-related absences, finding a missing signature on a deal to end the case meant the appeals court had no jurisdiction.
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November 21, 2025
In the next two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye on Ninth Circuit oral arguments regarding whether a Native American tribe's sovereignty shields it from a labor arbitration award. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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November 21, 2025
An attorney who spent about 17 years with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and was part of a team that challenged a North Carolina law banning transgender people from using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, has joined Kalijarvi Chuzi Newman & Fitch PC.
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November 21, 2025
A Teamsters local dodged a Black UPS worker's suit claiming the union discouraged him from complaining about on-the-job race discrimination and interfered with his medical leave, with a Mississippi federal judge ruling the worker hadn't shown he was treated worse than other union members.
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November 21, 2025
The Washington, D.C., federal judge set to decide if the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must continue probing disparate impact discrimination claims is known as a fair and detail-oriented jurist who has credited his wide-ranging experience — including as a corporate lawyer and a police officer — with preparing him for the bench.
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November 20, 2025
The Tenth Circuit on Thursday appeared hesitant about reviving a challenge by three transgender students and their parents to an Oklahoma law requiring that school bathroom access be based on birth certificate sex markers, with the judges suggesting that several recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings undermine the students' case.
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November 20, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Wisconsin federal court Thursday to force Northwestern Mutual to hand over details about its diversity, equity and inclusion policies and workplace trainings, saying the company's evasion is impeding an investigation into a former employee's bias allegations.
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November 20, 2025
A transgender woman who works as a civilian employee for the Illinois National Guard lodged a putative class action Thursday in D.C. federal court, challenging the Trump administration's policy prohibiting transgender employees from using restrooms that align with their gender identity.
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November 20, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit panel said Thursday that a law firm must face a fired attorney's disability bias suit claiming she was forced to work beyond a lighter schedule that helped her manage medical conditions, ruling a jury should decide whether the business has enough employees to be sued.
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November 20, 2025
A former Rutgers University head women's gymnastics coach claims in a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that she was wrongfully terminated after a politically charged investigation that cost more than $700,000 and failed to find any misconduct.
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November 20, 2025
A California judge denied a request Thursday from a former employee accusing Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, of discrimination to sanction the rapper for failing to sit for a deposition, but warned his attorney not to take "any comfort" in the order because he will need to reach an agreement soon or face "undesirable outcomes."
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November 20, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday reopened a lawsuit alleging the Humane Society of the United States fired two remote employees rather than granting their religious requests to skip the COVID-19 vaccine, saying the workers had sufficiently connected their vaccine opposition to their faith.
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November 20, 2025
A former in-house attorney for Dell can't pursue a lawsuit alleging that the company fired her because she chose to work remotely to accommodate her high-risk pregnancy, the technology company told a Massachusetts federal judge, arguing she is bound by an arbitration agreement.
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November 20, 2025
A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday ruled that a former Reed Smith LLP attorney is entitled to pursue more damages and obtain expanded wage data in her gender discrimination suit against the firm, saying a trial court incorrectly applied certain statutes when it limited the damages and data she could seek.
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November 20, 2025
A Michigan hospital can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it unlawfully refused to transfer a nurse with a metabolic disorder to a less demanding position, with a federal judge saying the hospital hadn't shown the court erred when it sent the case to a jury.
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November 20, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a document flagging legal risks for businesses that give preferences to foreign workers over Americans, saying job ads including phrases like "H-1B preferred" could violate federal anti-discrimination law.
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November 19, 2025
Ex-TD Bank employees on Wednesday hit the bank with a proposed class action accusing it of unlawfully targeting and firing its Chinese and Chinese-American workers in an attempt to show compliance with anti-money laundering procedures in the wake of enforcement actions taken by the U.S. government against the bank.
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November 19, 2025
A New Jersey federal jury has awarded $1.7 million to two former and current city of Camden housing authority employees who claimed they were terminated for raising concerns about corruption within the agency, according to a court order entering the judgment.
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November 19, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won't require a Missouri-based Christian education foundation to provide workplace accommodations for workers who get abortions, agreeing to an injunction as part of a deal ending the nonprofit's lawsuit over the agency's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations.
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November 19, 2025
A former CBS News station manager failed to show that her bonus was promised as part of her wages, a Maryland federal judge said Wednesday, agreeing with Paramount that the bonuses were discretionary.
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November 19, 2025
An FBI agent trainee sued director Kash Patel and the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday alleging he was arbitrarily singled out and fired for displaying a Pride flag at his personal workstation, in violation of his constitutional rights to equal protection and free speech.
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November 19, 2025
An Eleventh Circuit judge expressed concern Wednesday over the jury instructions that led to a verdict of more than $800,000 for a former Hyundai plant security guard who challenged a workplace ban on her locs hairstyle, saying the way the jury was advised was not "harmless error."
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November 19, 2025
JCPenney illegally fired a warehouse employee after faulting her for taking too much time off work to attend chemotherapy sessions for breast cancer, according to a new suit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed in Georgia federal court.