April 28, 2025
AT&T urged a Louisiana federal judge to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against obese workers through a weight-limit safety policy, pointing to a recent presidential executive order doing away with the disparate impact legal theory underpinning the case.
January 21, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a wave of new cases as the Biden administration came to an end, including suits accusing AT&T of unlawfully reassigning workers based on their weight and DHL of allowing widespread sexual harassment in a Tennessee facility. Here, Law360 takes a look at six lawsuits filed by the federal bias watchdog on Friday.