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April 24, 2024
Major League Baseball fired a minor league umpire who accused a female colleague of bullying him and using homophobic slurs to avoid disrupting its goal of recruiting more women to work for the league, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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April 24, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent lawsuit challenging convenience chain Sheetz's use of criminal background checks aligns with the agency's longstanding take on anti-discrimination law, but is unique in its emphasis on job candidates needing to have a say in the hiring process, experts said.
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April 24, 2024
The Second Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a former worker's claims that her company president sexually harassed her by inviting her to see an apartment and retaliated against her when she rejected him, saying it's unclear from her suit whether he made a pass at her.
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April 24, 2024
McKesson Corp. reached an agreement with a former sales vice president to end her lawsuit accusing the drug distributor of firing her because her Christian beliefs barred her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.
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April 24, 2024
A Las Vegas hotel and casino agreed to pay $720,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it forced out employees who requested accommodations for their disabilities, according to a filing in Nevada federal court.
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April 24, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reinstated a former information technology company worker's lawsuit alleging she was unlawfully fired and replaced by someone nearly 30 years her junior, saying a trial court held her to too high a standard when it threw out her case.
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April 24, 2024
A New York restaurant and brewery refused to give shifts to a worker with cancer and another who suffered a seizure even though they were medically cleared to work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday.
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April 24, 2024
The federal government's suit alleging Nevada and its public employees' retirement system overcharged service members for pension credits should remain in play, the U.S. Department of Justice said, arguing it put forward enough detail showing the state's policies harm military members.
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April 23, 2024
A former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. legal staffer who has accused founder Vince McMahon of sexually abusing and trafficking her should be forced to take her federal lawsuit to arbitration because of a deal the parties signed when they ended a consensual affair, McMahon said Tuesday in a court filing.
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April 23, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations make clear that employers may have to temporarily excuse workers from carrying out essential duties of their jobs, an obligation that doesn't exist under the Americans with Disabilities Act and that could catch businesses off guard, experts say.
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April 23, 2024
A residential roofing company reached a nearly $100,000 deal Tuesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's lawsuit accusing the company of firing a woman who complained about misogynistic music at its Dallas facility, a filing in Texas federal court said.
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April 23, 2024
An Apple Store in Oklahoma City has agreed to restore the sick time of workers who took off for COVID-19 since last August, pursuant to a recently announced settlement of an unfair labor practice charge filed by the workers' union.
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April 23, 2024
The Ninth Circuit refused on Tuesday to revive a nurse's lawsuit alleging the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to protect her from an inmate who exposed himself, saying the agency couldn't bar him from the facility because he needed mental health treatment there.
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April 23, 2024
A former public defender suing the federal judiciary for allegedly failing to take her sexual harassment claims seriously asked the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday to force a federal judge's hand after more than four months without a ruling following a bench trial, saying a decision on her long-pending bid for a preliminary injunction is overdue.
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April 23, 2024
An oilfield services company agreed to pay $265,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the company let racial slurs against Black and Hispanic workers go unchecked at a Texas facility, according to a filing Tuesday.
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April 23, 2024
The Sixth Circuit won't reinstate a former Dykema legal secretary's age discrimination case, saying Tuesday she failed to show that her supervisor — whom she accused of giving her adult diapers for her 50th birthday and frequently asking her if she planned to retire — had anything to do with her firing.
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April 23, 2024
A 14-year U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission veteran who once worked for Hogan Lovells was named the regional attorney in the EEOC's Miami district office, the agency said Tuesday.
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April 23, 2024
A federal judge rejected Kansas' bid to derail a suit from a highway patrol worker who claimed he was illegally fired due his gender identity, calling the state's claim that he was terminated for dragging his feet during an investigation "somewhat illogical."
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April 22, 2024
A proposed class of former employees of Twitter, now known as X, cannot yet force the company to move forward with their various employment claims in arbitration, a California federal judge determined Monday, saying the issue of class certification needs to be decided first.
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April 22, 2024
Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose has asked a New York state court to throw out a former Penthouse model's civil suit claiming he sexually assaulted her in a hotel in the late 1980s, arguing that the interaction was consensual and calling the claim "salacious, inflammatory and false."
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April 22, 2024
A former senior medical affairs director for Johnson & Johnson's research unit sued the company on Friday in New Jersey state court, alleging she was fired in retaliation for a separate lawsuit filed years earlier in which she named a boss from her prior employer who had recently joined Johnson & Johnson.
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April 22, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice urged a federal court to take its side in an attorney's lawsuit alleging she faced discrimination at the agency for being a Black woman, arguing that the white man who got the job for which she'd interviewed was the most qualified candidate.
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April 22, 2024
A Washington federal judge seemed to doubt Monday that the University of Washington went too far when it removed a professor's political statements from his syllabi, noting that the comments were disruptive because they caused students to drop the mandatory course.
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April 22, 2024
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an Ohio public service commissioner's bias suit alleging he was swept up in a round of layoffs because of his older age, ruling Monday that the city showed COVID-19-related budget concerns drove its decision-making, not prejudice.
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April 22, 2024
With its budget passage Saturday, New York became the first state in the U.S. to implement paid leave for pregnant employees to attend doctors' appointments, expanding its paid sick time requirements to create a new bank of up to 20 hours for this purpose.