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April 03, 2024
A Third Circuit panel seemed sympathetic Wednesday to an injured machinery worker who sued his former employer for disability discrimination but urged the parties to give mediation another shot, ending oral arguments by referring them to the court's chief circuit mediator.
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April 03, 2024
A pair of First Circuit judges on Wednesday suggested that an 80-year-old former Trader Joe's employee should have gotten the chance to bring her age discrimination claims to trial after she was fired for buying beer for her underage grandson.
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April 03, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to end a Black former New York Public Radio host's suit alleging she lost out on promotions for complaining about racial bias before being accused of plagiarism and quitting, ruling she put forward enough detail to keep the majority of her case in play.
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April 02, 2024
Rapper Ye, his companies and Donda Academy were hit with a discrimination suit in California state court Tuesday by a former employee who accuses Ye of threatening to cage students, spewing hateful rhetoric against Jewish people and the LGBTQ community, and treating Black employees far worse than white staffers.
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April 02, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has freed the city of Austell from a lawsuit brought against it by its former police chief, who alleged that he was forced out of his job after three years of raising concerns about the safety of department facilities.
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April 02, 2024
Nationwide security guard company Securitas Security Services USA Inc. has agreed to pay $175,000 to resolve investigations into its hiring practices that the U.S. Department of Justice was conducting after it received a complaint that the firm was discriminating against non-U.S. citizens, the government announced Tuesday.
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April 02, 2024
A Maryland federal judge granted video game developer ZeniMax's bid to toss a transgender ex-employee's suit claiming the business didn't uphold promises it would continue her health coverage after she left the company because of harassment, saying she didn't show that federal benefits laws were violated.
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April 02, 2024
A consulting company unlawfully fired a Muslim Palestinian worker after she criticized an email from the CEO that expressed support for Israel and ignored the climbing death toll in Gaza, the worker told a Washington federal court.
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April 02, 2024
A California state lawmaker has introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that would give workers the right to ignore emails, text messages and phone calls from their employers after they clock out.
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April 02, 2024
Legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa was hit with a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming it internally "blackballed" a midlevel associate who sued Troutman Pepper for racial discrimination, thereby putting the lie to Major Lindsey's "claims to champion diversity" and making the firm an "accomplice" to "systemic race discrimination" in the legal industry.
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April 02, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has added a shareholder in its San Diego office from Jackson Lewis PC, bringing on an attorney who has more than a decade of experience representing employers in both state and federal matters.
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April 02, 2024
X Corp. must face a proposed class action claiming Elon Musk implemented policies meant to push out women when he took over the social network formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled, finding the ex-worker leading the suit provided enough details to move the suit forward.
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April 02, 2024
The Arizona Cardinals have been ordered to pay nearly $3 million for defaming a former vice president while dismissing him from the team, with a league-appointed arbitrator faulting the team for falsely suggesting the executive committed domestic violence.
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April 02, 2024
A California federal judge partially denied Amazon's bid to escape a former worker's suit alleging he was pushed out because of a knee injury stemming from his military service, but threw out claims stemming from bias based on his veteran status, race and age.
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April 02, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action alleging the airline Emirates withheld severance from American workers after they were furloughed and then let go during the COVID-19 pandemic, ruling the employees showed they may have been owed extra money.
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April 02, 2024
The deadline for employers in Illinois to apply for an equal pay registration certificate — which involves submitting wage and demographic information and attesting that workplace anti-bias compliance is up to snuff — recently passed. Here's what businesses there need to know.
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April 02, 2024
One of the attorneys representing a proposed class of Philadelphia Uber drivers in their wage suit against the company left the Steel City's Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP for the new New Jersey office of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, his co-counsel in the ride-hailing case.
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April 01, 2024
A former employee at Block Inc., which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, alleges the company fired her in retaliation for two posts she made on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a suit filed in Missouri state court with financial backing from Elon Musk's X Corp.
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April 01, 2024
Tesla can't put off or dodge a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the carmaker allowed rampant racism to overtake a California factory, a federal judge has ruled, saying parallel state court cases can't resolve the agency's claims.
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April 01, 2024
A barbecue restaurant agreed Monday to pay $56,500 to resolve a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of firing a female worker who complained she was being doggedly pursued by a male shift leader, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.
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April 01, 2024
Attorneys with disabilities and a disability rights advocate can proceed with a proposed class action aimed at forcing accessibility improvements at several Michigan courthouses and government buildings, a Michigan federal judge ruled Saturday, rejecting the state's argument that it was immune from the suit.
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April 01, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to reinstate a former Miami-Dade County firefighter's lawsuit alleging male managers gave her extra work, called her sexist slurs and then fired her because she's a woman, saying the trial court was within its power to exclude evidence she sought to introduce.
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April 01, 2024
A Christian postal worker who claimed he was unlawfully punished for seeking Sundays off should lose his religious bias case under the standard the U.S. Supreme Court set when it revived his case in 2023, a letter carriers union told a Pennsylvania federal judge.
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April 01, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't have to pay a Georgia hospital's attorney fees after jurors found in favor of the medical center on disability bias claims, a federal judge ruled, saying the jury's siding with the hospital didn't make the agency's suit frivolous.
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April 01, 2024
Carlton Fields PA has added a labor and employment attorney from Stearns Weaver Miller as of counsel in its Tampa office, the firm announced Monday.