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May 28, 2024
A magistrate judge on Tuesday recommended the denial of four Georgia waste removal companies' motion to dismiss a suit brought against them by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly subjecting female truck driver applicants to sexist interview questions before filling the roles with less qualified men.
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May 28, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a spate of lawsuits Tuesday against hospitality, transportation, food service and construction companies across the country, alleging they've shirked their legal responsibility to report demographic data about their employees for several years.
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May 28, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a fired assistant prosecutor alleging he lost his job at the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office for speaking out about harassment and retaliation, after the county asked for sanctions because the plaintiff wasn't complying with discovery requirements and missed a deposition.
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May 28, 2024
Rebecca Dixon, a leader in workers' rights, said that major policy reforms like revising the Fair Labor Standards Act are needed to overcome the occupational segregation that characterizes today's workforce. Here, Dixon speaks to Law360 about the effects of occupational segregation and what needs to be done to address it.
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May 28, 2024
A Washington state law aimed at preventing companies from holding mandatory anti-union meetings will take effect in June, and although the statute ostensibly targets labor matters, experts say the law should be on discrimination attorneys' radar due to its prohibitions on employers promoting political and religious views in the workplace.
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May 28, 2024
A Washington nursing facility has reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle a charge from a worker who said the business sat idle while co-workers repeatedly and intentionally referred to them by the wrong pronouns.
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May 28, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to again consider whether employers can use contracts to limit the ability of aggrieved workers to sue, after hearing mini oral arguments last year, though two justices said they would not have advanced the case.
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May 28, 2024
A South Carolina federal jury said a chemical company should pay a former worker $400,000 for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing her after she took time off to treat a painful foot condition.
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May 28, 2024
Employment and labor law giant Littler Mendelson PC announced Tuesday that it has grown its New York team with the addition of a pay transparency law expert and former pay equity practice group co-chair at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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May 28, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reopened a former legal services company employee's lawsuit claiming her boss defaced her car because she complained that a Black colleague wasn't assigning work to white process servers, ruling a trial court used the wrong standard to evaluate her retaliation claims.
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May 28, 2024
The Boston Red Sox settled a suit from a former worker who said she was fired after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine because it conflicted with her Roman Catholic beliefs, according to a filing Tuesday in Florida federal court.
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May 24, 2024
A New Jersey state appeals court panel stood by an attorney's loss Friday in his suit claiming the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and its officials held him back from promotions and raises and harassed him based on his military service in the U.S. National Guard.
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May 24, 2024
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg is scheduled to appear before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to answer questions about the damning findings of a probe of the FDIC's workplace culture.
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May 24, 2024
A Washington, D.C., federal judge erred by saying a government employee's discrimination suit against her union was essentially an unfair representation suit that belonged before the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the D.C. Circuit on Friday, saying the case belongs in court.
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May 24, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a New Jersey food service distributor failed to collect demographic data about its workforce for several years in a row, telling a New Jersey federal court that civil rights law requires the company to file the reports.
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May 24, 2024
Several conservative federal judges and company leaders have signaled they're disinclined to hire students who have participated in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, a stance that employment law experts said could invite discrimination claims.
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May 24, 2024
The Eighth Circuit on Friday reinstated five workers' claims that the Mayo Clinic illegally disregarded their Christian faith by firing them after they refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo regular testing, saying a trial court was wrong when it found the workers weren't sincere enough in their beliefs.
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May 24, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday reopened a Black former guidance counselor's lawsuit alleging an Alabama school district forced her into a less prestigious job while letting white colleagues keep their positions, saying a trial court should reconsider tossing the suit based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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May 24, 2024
A data scientist was denied her request for summary judgment Friday in her lawsuit alleging BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee wrongly fired her for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 due to religious objections, after a relative's instant messages cast doubt on the sincerity of her beliefs.
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May 24, 2024
On Thursday, a federal judge will consider a Buffalo, New York, Catholic school's bid to compel arbitration of claims brought by a former president who says she was retaliated against after she uncovered financial and academic issues at the school.
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May 24, 2024
A Washington federal judge sent back to state court a lawsuit alleging an employer violated a new state requirement to include pay ranges in job advertisements, finding that a job listing without pay information does not harm job applicants enough to justify a federal lawsuit.
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May 24, 2024
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to a Black former employee's win in her race bias lawsuit, saying justices need to clarify whether lower courts can diverge from the typical framework when ruling on summary judgment motions.
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May 24, 2024
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has argued that a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein violated ethics rules by publicly accusing one of the movie mogul's alleged rape victims of perjury in an "obvious" attempt to dissuade her from testifying again at an upcoming retrial.
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May 24, 2024
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte Burrows urged people to stand up against threats to anti-discrimination efforts during a New York University School of Law conference, and the agency reached settlement agreements to wrap up bias and retaliation claims. Here's a look back at what happened at the EEOC last week.
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May 24, 2024
CBS said a California federal judge should toss a straight white male worker's bias suit claiming he was passed over for writer roles in favor of more diverse candidates, arguing that the First Amendment allows it to tap writers based on their identity as a storytelling operation.