The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration after the agency's chair panned warnings from Democrats and civil rights advocates that the move erodes key worker protections.
The Ninth Circuit will not revive a hospice worker's religious bias suit claiming the facility instituted a discriminatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement, finding Wednesday her case lacked evidence that she sought a religious exemption to the mandate before quitting.
UPS has reached a deal to end a class action alleging the package delivery giant violated federal law by failing to pay drivers for short-term military leave despite providing compensation for jury duty and other short-term absences, according to a filing in Washington federal court.
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The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration after the agency's chair panned warnings from Democrats and civil rights advocates that the move erodes key worker protections.
The Ninth Circuit will not revive a hospice worker's religious bias suit claiming the facility instituted a discriminatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement, finding Wednesday her case lacked evidence that she sought a religious exemption to the mandate before quitting.
UPS has reached a deal to end a class action alleging the package delivery giant violated federal law by failing to pay drivers for short-term military leave despite providing compensation for jury duty and other short-term absences, according to a filing in Washington federal court.
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January 22, 2026
The Tenth Circuit wrestled Thursday with whether to revive a white former corrections officer's twice-dismissed suit accusing the Colorado Department of Corrections of creating a racially hostile environment through diversity training, with one judge questioning the impact of a recent U.S. Supreme Court that favored majority group plaintiffs.
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January 22, 2026
Meta Platforms can't arbitrate a former engineer's suit alleging it fostered a hostile work environment that discriminated against white male employees and job applicants for hiring opportunities, promotions and bonuses, according to a minute order issued by a California state judge.
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January 22, 2026
A New York City nonprofit that operates homeless shelters shaved time off of employees' hours, resulting in unpaid wages and overtime, according to a proposed class and collective action complaint filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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January 22, 2026
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
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January 22, 2026
Walmart prevailed Thursday over a suit from a Black former manager who said he was denied a promotion and subjected to racist harassment on the job, when a Michigan federal judge ruled he lacked evidence that he was qualified for higher roles or had endured severe mistreatment.
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January 22, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC has elected New York shareholder William J. Anthony to serve as chair of its 19-member 2026 Board of Directors and named three new board members.
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January 22, 2026
A freight delivery company has agreed to pay $47,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit that said it yanked a job offer from a deaf applicant after she asked for a sign language interpreter.
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January 22, 2026
The California State University system has struck a deal with faculty labor unions to resolve a suit claiming the CSU improperly shared employee contact information with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to aid an investigation into antisemitism on its campuses.
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January 22, 2026
A Virginia food hall has agreed to pay $54,000 to resolve an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business's owner created a hostile work environment by using a racial slur and making racist comments to a Black general manager.
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January 21, 2026
A Washington Court of Appeals panel expressed reluctance to award Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s bid to send a former worker's age discrimination case to arbitration Wednesday, while also casting some doubt on the ex-employee's stance that the arbitration pact she signed was invalid.
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January 21, 2026
Dozens of former military leaders have backed U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., in challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bid to reduce his Navy rank, saying Kelly's punishment for "accurate statements of military law" discourages veterans from exercising their own First Amendment rights.
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January 21, 2026
Two former employees of a company owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries and BWX Technologies that was tapped for a $2.1 billion contamination cleanup contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have alleged in federal court they were unlawfully terminated after raising concerns about safety, employment and billing practices.
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January 21, 2026
A Subway franchisee agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business didn't have the proper safeguards in place to prevent abuse when a teen worker was sexually assaulted on the job by his boss.
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January 21, 2026
The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's request for the contact information of Jewish employees, arguing that the lists the agency aims to compile shirk the U.S. Constitution and disregard "frightening" instances in history.
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January 20, 2026
California's judicial ethics watchdog announced Tuesday it is looking into misconduct allegations against a Los Angeles judge whose "extreme and bizarre" comments led a state appeals court to reverse a $10 million sexual harassment verdict.
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January 20, 2026
The Fifth Circuit's recent decision to grant Texas an en banc rehearing to decide whether the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was validly enacted likely sets the state's challenge to the statute on a path to the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at three things to know as the legal battle moves ahead.
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January 20, 2026
A former paralegal was not substantially limited in her work at a law firm by her ovarian cancer and its later metastasis, and so can't legally meet the definition of disabled, the firm's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday.
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January 20, 2026
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.
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January 20, 2026
A group of former top officials at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Labor issued a statement Tuesday declaring that the Trump administration's proposed elimination of its lengthy workplace harassment guidance could lead to an increase in this kind of malfeasance.
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January 20, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took aim at a plethora of state diversity initiatives in a Monday opinion, declaring that several minority-owned business assistance programs and private hiring practices run afoul of the Texas Constitution.
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January 20, 2026
A former Google salesperson was forced to quit his job after his boss began waging a "campaign of hostility" against him upon learning that he is Jewish and diagnosed with mental health disorders, according to a new bias and retaliation suit filed against the tech giant.
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January 20, 2026
An Alabama-based construction company solidified its early win Tuesday in a race and age bias lawsuit from three Black construction workers after the Eleventh Circuit said "decline in work ethic," which the company asserted as its reason for termination, was enough to fire them.
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January 20, 2026
The attorneys general of Florida and Texas both issued opinions calling diversity, equity and inclusion requirements and laws unconstitutional.
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January 20, 2026
A former employee pursuing wrongful firing claims against Madison Square Garden Entertainment has asked a New York federal judge to reject the company's request to remove his counsel based on his potential need to testify, arguing that key facts are available from other sources and his lawyer will not need to take the stand.
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January 20, 2026
The Sixth Circuit backed the dismissal of a Black urgent care worker's suit claiming she was discriminated against and harassed when she was fired for allegedly asking a police officer patient if he had killed anyone, ruling she undermined her case through her own deposition.