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February 12, 2025
United Airlines has asked a Texas federal judge to toss a "mass action" filed by roughly 700 current and former workers accusing the airline of discriminating against employees who resisted COVID-19 vaccination, saying most of the plaintiffs lack jurisdiction.
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February 12, 2025
A Michigan federal judge declined Wednesday to declare a victor in a suit from a Christian nurse who claimed the American Red Cross unlawfully fired her for rejecting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying the case — which was recently revived by the Sixth Circuit — should go to a jury.
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February 12, 2025
A lawyer for Nike urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday to block an Oregon local newspaper from publishing workplace harassment questionnaires provided by plaintiffs' attorney in pay equity litigation against the athletic apparel giant.
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February 12, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's acting chair said a recent leadership shakeup at the agency hasn't impeded its routine functions, but employment attorneys say they've seen a general slowdown in EEOC investigations and a clear deprioritization of LGBTQ+ discrimination matters.
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February 12, 2025
A security company has agreed to pay $1.6 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it hired underqualified men for security officer jobs while turning away female applicants, according to a federal court filing Wednesday.
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February 12, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday rescinded a directive for name, image and likeness compensation for athletes to not discriminate against women under Title IX guidelines, calling the guidance enacted in the final days of the Biden administration "overly burdensome" and "profoundly unfair.''
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February 12, 2025
A California construction company agreed to pay $730,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming that supervisors harassed Hispanic employees with racist remarks and derogatory slurs, the agency told a federal court.
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February 12, 2025
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management instructed agencies to consider President Donald Trump's federal worker buyout plan to be an "exit incentive program" under federal age bias law, saying workers over 40 must be given notices and waive discrimination claims if they accept the offer.
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February 12, 2025
Starbucks is ignoring a Massachusetts law requiring employers to inform job-seekers that the state doesn't allow the use of lie detector tests in employment decisions, according to a putative class action filed in state court.
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February 12, 2025
A North Carolina county fired a human resources specialist who had worked for the county for eight years because she got sick and asked to take short-term medical leave, she said in a complaint in federal court.
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February 11, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs agencies to prepare for "large-scale" cuts to the federal workforce and gives Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency the authority to approve the future hiring of career officials.
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February 11, 2025
A former marketing specialist for Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, sued the "Heartless" rapper in California state court on Tuesday, accusing West of being a "bully" who openly called himself Hitler and threatened her using profanities on account of her being Jewish.
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February 11, 2025
A Houston real estate broker asked a state court to force his company to arbitrate his claims of employment discrimination and retaliation, claiming that he was fired after complaining of company actions that included a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and poor treatment of female employees.
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February 11, 2025
The Sixth Circuit revived a lawsuit from a former employee of an infusion services company who claimed she was fired because of her religious objections to the provider's COVID-19 testing and vaccination policies, ruling Tuesday that a trial court was too quick to toss the case.
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February 11, 2025
The U.S. military will stop enlisting transgender recruits and halt gender-affirming medical care for current service members, according to a U.S. Department of Defense memo filed in D.C. federal court litigation challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops.
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February 11, 2025
A California judge ordered Ye on Tuesday to sit for a deposition in a lawsuit from a former security guard at the embattled rapper's Donda Academy and sanctioned him $500 for skipping a deposition, while also scolding Ye's counsel about the attorney's apparently difficult "history" before his court.
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February 11, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a Texas school district's defeat of a former warehouse supervisor's lawsuit alleging his manager's constant oversharing about her sex life created a hostile work environment, saying he hadn't furnished enough detail to keep his case in court.
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February 11, 2025
The University of Scranton failed to accommodate a police sergeant with renal cancer and eventually fired him after he fell asleep briefly during a period in which he was undergoing treatments, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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February 11, 2025
A trial court rightly dismissed the suit of a woman who alleged she was racially targeted and fired from her job at a Hyundai plant due to a discriminatory policy prohibiting dreadlocks, Hyundai told the Eleventh Circuit, urging the court not to revive the suit.
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February 11, 2025
Citibank passed a Black vice president over for a higher role, excessively criticized her work and paid her less than white male colleagues because of her race and her requests to accommodate her diabetes, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Florida federal court said.
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February 11, 2025
Michigan State University has told a federal judge it's time to permanently toss its former football coach's wrongful termination suit, saying Mel Tucker has repeatedly failed to plausibly allege that his firing was motivated by money, race or university leaders' self-interest.
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February 11, 2025
The former co-president of Marvel Entertainment has filed a discrimination lawsuit in California state court alleging he was passed over for a promotion to lead the consumer products division of parent company Disney because he is an "old white guy."
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February 11, 2025
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a Black former UPS worker's suit claiming she was retaliated against and fired for complaining that managers sexually harassed and mistreated her because of her race, finding she lacked proof that discrimination was at play.
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February 11, 2025
A General Dynamics subsidiary and submarine manufacturer was unjustified in its firing of a former employee who suffered from long COVID, according to a lawsuit the company removed to Connecticut federal court.
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February 11, 2025
Starbucks puts illegal quotas in place to hire and promote more women and people of color and offers incentives to executives to meet these goals by connecting the quotas to their bonuses, the Missouri attorney general told a federal court Tuesday.