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August 07, 2024
A Colorado federal judge doubted Wednesday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission looked hard enough for a worker's communications with their doctor in a patient portal, awarding an appliance company attorney fees as sanctions for the agency's failure to turn over the documents sooner.
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August 07, 2024
AstraZeneca defeated a former sales manager's lawsuit alleging she was fired because she was in her 60s, with a Tennessee federal judge ruling Wednesday she couldn't overcome the pharmaceutical company's explanation that she'd violated corporate policy barring personal use of drug samples.
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August 07, 2024
A split Sixth Circuit revived Wednesday a retaliation suit from a former student who claimed University of Kentucky cleared her accused rapist of wrongdoing to punish her for filing a separate lawsuit against the school, saying the trial court prematurely tossed her case.
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August 07, 2024
RELX PLC has been hit with a proposed class action by a former employee alleging the information and analytics company retaliated against him and committed securities fraud by making various business decisions that contradicted its investor disclosures and public-facing statements.
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August 07, 2024
A Chick-fil-A franchisee and a transgender former employee have settled her sexual harassment suit alleging she was told she should be grateful that a colleague was hitting on her and eventually fired after complaining about the harassment she faced.
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August 07, 2024
A Catholic school assured a librarian that it wanted to renew her contract for another school year but promptly changed its tune after she alerted the principal that she was about to undergo a gender transition, a complaint filed in Minnesota state court said.
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August 07, 2024
Thompson Coburn LLP has brought on an employee benefits litigator from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner in Chicago, picking up a lawyer with over two decades of experience advising and representing employers, plan administrators and fiduciaries.
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August 07, 2024
A Boston federal judge ruled Tuesday that Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC can't force arbitration in a proposed class action claiming the bank illegally used protected criminal history information to discriminate against job applicants.
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August 07, 2024
Massachusetts now joins a continually growing chorus of states with pay transparency laws, and with a particularly robust equal pay statute on the books already, employers need to be careful about harmonizing their compliance efforts, attorneys say.
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August 07, 2024
The Fourth Circuit reopened a former salesperson's lawsuit alleging a wine and spirits distributor fired her because she rejected the owner's sexual advances after they broke up, saying a trial is needed to delineate when the relationship ended.
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August 07, 2024
Technology company L3Harris can't toss a former worker's claims that he was fired for being Christian after he complained that his new boss was harassing him, a Texas federal judge ruled, but his claims of age bias and retaliation lacked enough proof to stay in court.
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August 07, 2024
A Seattle federal judge approved an $875,000 deal to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing a staffing company of refusing to assign women to certain jobs.
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August 06, 2024
A former Thompson Hine LLP attorney's sex harassment suit should be dismissed for failing to show that gender bias had anything to do with the workplace conflicts that arose during her tenure, the firm argued in a New York federal court filing.
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August 06, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday refused to grant en banc rehearing to a former Uber driver after a three-judge panel found he failed to support his allegations that the ride-hailing giant's rating system is racially biased.
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August 06, 2024
Florida officials have implored the Eleventh Circuit to allow enforcement of the state's recently enacted law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults, arguing that a federal judge's order to enjoin enforcement of the law was erroneous.
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August 06, 2024
Detroit casino MGM Grand has urged a Michigan federal court to not grant default judgment to former employees protesting its vaccination policies, arguing the request is drastic and that any delay in producing discovery documents was justified and harmless.
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August 06, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced for a running mate in the 2024 election a person with a progressive labor and employment record, one that could signal how a future presidential administration could treat those issues, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores Walz’s employment law record.
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August 06, 2024
A former vice president of a Denver-area food biotech firm has filed a suit claiming the company violated Colorado's gender and age anti-discrimination laws when it fired and ultimately replaced her after she finished training a younger male successor, who was intended to only take over some of her duties.
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August 06, 2024
Amazon asked a Washington federal judge to end a proposed class action accusing it of demoting or terminating workers who take time off for military service, arguing that one of the plaintiffs was inadvertently fired while the other wasn't qualified for a promotion because he was "unprofessional."
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August 06, 2024
A janitorial franchiser told a California federal court that a worker's suit claiming he was misclassified as an independent contractor cannot stand after the Ninth Circuit kept in arbitration his individual California Private Attorneys General Act claims.
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August 06, 2024
The Seventh Circuit backed a pharmaceutical company's win over a lawsuit claiming it refused to promote and then fired a senior scientist because she was a Chinese woman in her 40s with back pain, finding her disability rendered her unable to complete crucial parts of her job.
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August 06, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday reinstated a video editor's lawsuit alleging a Christian-owned company sacked him for taking COVID-19 precautions, endorsing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position on religious nonconformity allegations.
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August 06, 2024
Georgia-based medical provider Premise Health has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former nurse's race and pregnancy bias suit, saying she was canned because of her "egregious" violations of COVID-19 safety protocols rather than her desire to pump breast milk on the job.
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August 06, 2024
A union representing Latino workers sued the city of Chicago and Home Depot in Illinois federal court Tuesday, alleging that city police officers moonlighting as store security subjected migrants seeking day labor work near the home improvement store to excessive force and racist insults in violation of their civil rights.
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August 06, 2024
Labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP is growing its San Diego footprint with the addition of a new outpost manned by an office managing partner and three associates who made the leap from Jackson Lewis PC.