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January 28, 2025
The Fifth Circuit revived a Black former teacher's suit claiming a Texas charter school ignored her complaints that she faced racist jokes and was denied opportunities because of her race, ruling a lower court needs to reassess whether the school has sovereign immunity.
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January 28, 2025
A Colorado attorney has sued the Washington, D.C.-area firm Volkov Law Group, alleging it discriminated against her based on age and gender when she was "abruptly and unlawfully fired" in October 2023 at the age of 56, and accusing the firm of wrongfully withholding wages.
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January 28, 2025
A Ninth Circuit panel erroneously gave religious institutions complete immunity when it held that an Orthodox Jewish organization does not have to face a food worker's suit alleging he was stiffed on overtime pay, he told the appeals court in his bid for rehearing.
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January 28, 2025
Berry Appleman & Leiden struck a deal to end a former software tech lead's suit claiming the global immigration firm fired him because side effects from new medication caused him to ask for a reprieve from his demanding workload, according to a filing in Texas federal court.
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January 27, 2025
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it has placed dozens of employees on paid leave and will cancel $6.1 million worth of contracts as part of efforts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion activities.
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January 27, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has recently pulled down a slew of online resources on LGBTQ worker protections and artificial intelligence-based discrimination, as well as a report about unequal opportunity in the high-tech sector.
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January 27, 2025
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys infringed on three members' rights by moving to expel them for trying to stop the union from voting on a controversial pro-Palestine resolution, the attorneys said, asking a New York federal judge to preserve claims that the union violated labor and anti-discrimination laws.
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January 27, 2025
CVS Health Corp. can't beat a former nurse's lawsuit claiming the pharmacy chain unlawfully tried to force her to provide contraception to patients despite her Catholic beliefs, with a Florida federal judge saying jurors should weigh whether it would've been too difficult for the company to provide an accommodation.
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January 27, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has greenlighted Nasdaq's proposal to undo the exchange's rules requiring that companies listed on it disclose board diversity data, following a narrow, en banc ruling from the Fifth Circuit last month finding the rules ran afoul of federal securities law.
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January 27, 2025
A Texas federal judge paused a Republican lawsuit challenging a former President Joe Biden-era U.S. Health and Human Services rule defining gender dysphoria as a disability, after the agency said it needed to evaluate the impact of a new executive order targeting "gender ideology."
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January 27, 2025
Plaintiffs-side firm Katz Banks Kumin LLP announced on Monday the opening of a New York City office boasting four attorneys, including three new attorney hires.
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January 27, 2025
A D.C. federal judge has dismissed the remaining age-discrimination claim in a lawsuit filed by former D.C. Department of Public Works employees after the remaining plaintiff failed to comply with discovery deadlines and submitted filings with inaccurate citations, further raising concerns about the use of AI-generated content.
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January 27, 2025
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored significant employer-side wins this year, including a Texas federal court's decision to nationally invalidate a federal rule banning noncompetes and defeating misclassification claims against Uber in Massachusetts, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dropped a suit against a food delivery company claiming it failed to fulfill its end of a settlement resolving a former worker's disability bias charge, telling a Virginia federal court that the company paid the missing cash.
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January 27, 2025
A food service worker at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was denied her leave and accommodation requests during her pregnancy and eventually fired for being absent too much, she said in a suit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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January 27, 2025
A plastics manufacturer will pay a Black former worker $60,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought in Wisconsin federal court claiming the business fired him days after he complained that a white worker leveled racial slurs at him.
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January 24, 2025
For companies pushing forward with their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives amid a torrent of attacks from President Donald Trump and his allies, there are myriad potential risks ahead — and murky questions about the legal parameters of Trump's anti-DEI agenda.
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January 24, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday refused to revive a Black man's racial discrimination lawsuit that alleged his supervisor at FCA US LLC regularly called him a racial slur, although two justices, while concurring with the decision, disagreed that the man insufficiently alleged a racially hostile work environment.
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January 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday halted all investigations and enforcement in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order earlier this week pulling a longstanding, core legal authority used to prevent federal contractors from discriminating against workers.
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January 24, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday considered whether to reverse assault and battery verdicts against two former Koch Foods human resource managers accused of inviting an employee to their home, propositioning her and subjecting her to disciplinary action at work when she refused their advances.
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January 24, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Friday told Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan it had a "high hurdle" to meet for him to say a new trial is warranted, after a jury awarded almost $13 million to a worker who was fired after being denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 mandatory vaccine policy.
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January 24, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office requiring nearly all federal employees to return to physical offices, a shift away from telework that some private sector companies are also embracing. Here, experts discuss four errors that private employers make when implementing return-to-work policies.
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January 24, 2025
A mortgage and financial services company on Friday defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to hire a woman because she took pain medication, after a Washington federal judge ruled midtrial that a key piece of evidence shouldn't have been shown to jurors.
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January 24, 2025
A Los Angeles judge has ordered arbitration in "Vanderpump Rules" alum Faith Stowers' racism lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media and Bravo, saying the reality TV personality's contracts clearly required such disputes to be handled outside of court.
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January 24, 2025
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Friday he's declining to bring criminal charges against rock star Marilyn Manson, saying domestic violence allegations fall outside the statute of limitations and the office is unable to prove various women's sexual assault claims beyond a reasonable doubt.