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May 09, 2024
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels said Thursday that the agency thinks all sex-based harassment claims should be able to avoid mandatory arbitration under federal law, giving credence to a legal theory that could lead to more litigation.
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May 09, 2024
Rimon PC has expanded its offices in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Orlando, San Francisco and San Diego with the addition of five attorneys, bolstering its intellectual property, investment management, real estate, employment and litigation capabilities, the firm announced Thursday.
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May 09, 2024
A Philadelphia federal judge on Thursday denied a former Thomas Jefferson University Hospital surgeon's request to reinstate a $15 million jury verdict against his onetime employer, reasoning that the judge would have reached the same conclusion as a previous judge who vacated the award before recusing himself from a new trial.
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May 09, 2024
A shareholder who sued Qualcomm Inc. for allegedly misleading the public and investors about its efforts to diversify its board has failed to show that the company didn't consider diverse candidates, Delaware's Court of Chancery said Thursday, dismissing the shareholder's case.
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May 09, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su on Thursday defended President Joe Biden's U.S. Department of Labor budget, telling a Senate panel that such funding is necessary to recover workers' stolen wages and fight unlawful child labor, among other priorities.
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May 09, 2024
Nike failed to provide nursing employees with adequate breaks or spaces to express breast milk and told a manager that she was setting a bad example for her team when she asked to pump milk outside of her scheduled breaks, a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County superior court said.
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May 09, 2024
A Georgia federal judge on Thursday chided attorneys for a man hoping to beat back a challenge to a $3.4 million discrimination verdict he won last year, saying that they needed to put a little more sweat equity into their filings if they hoped to keep their hefty judgment whole.
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May 09, 2024
A white male employee said software company Red Hat fired him to make room for more women and people of color in its workforce after it announced diversity quotas that he had vocally opposed, according to a suit filed in Idaho federal court.
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May 09, 2024
New York City unlawfully discriminates against gay male employees by refusing to cover in vitro fertilization under its healthcare plan while providing heterosexual and lesbian workers with those benefits, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday in federal court.
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May 08, 2024
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley pushed back Wednesday against a former assistant tennis coach who accused the school of firing her because of her sexual orientation, arguing that she was dismissed for violating its policy while traveling for a tournament.
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May 08, 2024
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission legal counsel Carol Miaskoff gave her take Wednesday on some notable compliance challenges the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will pose for employers, pointing to areas where numerous laws may overlap and the requirement that workers core tasks could be paused.
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May 08, 2024
Workplace groups, even purely social ones, that restrict membership based on race or sex may be on shaky legal ground in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Andrea Lucas suggested Wednesday.
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May 08, 2024
The North Carolina state appeals court has partially revived a fired Duke University hospital resident's lawsuit alleging that health care system officials terminated him because of his depression after an inadequate firing-review process that violated an employment contract.
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May 08, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge declined Wednesday to toss a Black maintenance worker's suit claiming bogus concerns about his performance got him fired, ruling his allegation that a white supervisor called him a racial slur showed that bias might have been in play.
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May 08, 2024
The Eighth Circuit seemed skeptical Wednesday of Chipotle's argument that the date of a worker's alleged sexual assault is the linchpin for determining whether a law limiting mandatory arbitration shields her lawsuit, but receptive to the notion that a "dispute" could have occurred before she filed the case in court.
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May 08, 2024
A New Jersey appellate court has reversed trial court orders compelling a school district to produce communications with its attorneys in a discrimination and malicious prosecution suit brought by a former administrator, finding that she had not established any Sixth Amendment right at stake to necessitate piercing attorney-client privilege.
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May 08, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has selected one of its newest shareholders in Miami to take over the office managing shareholder position, the firm announced Wednesday.
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May 08, 2024
House and Senate Democrats unveiled legislation Wednesday that would eliminate ceilings on the amount of damages workers can receive under federal civil rights law if a jury finds they've been discriminated against, a proposal the lawmakers say would correct outdated limits.
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May 08, 2024
A lighting company struck a deal with a former project manager who accused the company of firing him because he asked to take parental leave after his child was born and he was then stuck in Egypt at the outset of the pandemic, a Massachusetts federal court filing said.
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May 08, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday struck down a gay drama teacher's win in his suit alleging he was unlawfully fired by a Catholic school after announcing his wedding on Facebook, finding that his job entailed responsibilities that triggered a religious exception to anti-discrimination law.
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May 07, 2024
Almost three-quarters of U.S. employers share great concern over the impact the U.S. Department of Labor's and the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement actions will have on their businesses, according to a survey Littler Mendelson PC released Wednesday.
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May 07, 2024
The Tenth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the University of Colorado System's policies regarding COVID-19 vaccine exemptions violated constitutional religious liberty protections, saying its rules were motivated by "religious animus" and should have been blocked by a trial court.
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May 07, 2024
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund urged the Fifth Circuit not to upend a Nasdaq Stock Market rule meant to encourage corporate board diversity, saying in a brief Monday that the rule's opponents have staked out a "radical" position on the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution that threatens to "entrench ... barriers to opportunity."
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May 07, 2024
In a published opinion Tuesday, a Tenth Circuit panel ruled that the remote court appearance of a plaintiff's attorney who contracted COVID-19 was not grounds to declare a mistrial after a Black utility worker lost his Title VII workplace discrimination case in Kansas, finding that the plaintiff could not show that he was prejudiced by his lead counsel's absence.
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May 07, 2024
An Eighth Circuit panel on Wednesday will be the first federal appellate court to grapple with the question of when actions must have occurred to be covered under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, an issue experts say urgently needs more clarity.