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May 13, 2024
A former Boston city employee will be allowed to call a senior federal judge to testify about a conversation the two had months before she reported being sexually harassed by a former city health director, a state court has ruled.
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May 13, 2024
Sovereign immunity can't protect a Harrah's casino operated on Arizona Native American lands from a discrimination lawsuit filed by five former employees, a federal judge said, arguing that the for-profit corporation is formed under the laws of the state, not those of the tribal community.
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May 13, 2024
Tesla reached a deal with a former production associate to end her lawsuit accusing the company of firing her after she reported that she had been sexually harassed at work, according to a filing Monday in California federal court.
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May 13, 2024
An Indian former Uber software engineer must arbitrate her suit claiming she was unlawfully disparaged, micromanaged and humiliated by higher-ups including the company's co-founder, after a New York federal judge found her employment agreement requires an arbitrator to decide whether an arbitration provision is enforceable.
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May 13, 2024
A former U.S. Steel Corp. employee who says he was wrongly fired for using medically licensed marijuana off the job has quietly dropped his race and disability discrimination suit against the company, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court.
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May 13, 2024
A California state jury awarded $14 million to a former UCLA oncologist and professor who said she was discriminated against and constructively discharged from her job due to her gender, four years after the state appeals court threw out a $13 million jury verdict from the first trial.
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May 13, 2024
A split Eleventh Circuit panel upheld a win Monday for a transgender sheriff's deputy who challenged a Georgia county health plan's refusal to pay for gender-affirmation surgery, ruling the coverage exclusion violated federal anti-discrimination law.
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May 13, 2024
Although the Fourth Circuit ruled that a Catholic school was legally allowed to fire a teacher because he's gay, the court took a narrow approach that cut off the school's push to give religious employers more power to sidestep anti-bias law.
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May 13, 2024
The First Circuit said a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP accountant must arbitrate her suit claiming she received negative evaluations because she requested maternity leave during a high-risk pregnancy, unpersuaded by her claim that she never received an email adding an arbitration agreement to her employment contract.
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May 13, 2024
A New York City security company will pay $22,500 to close a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it pressured a worker to retire following a heart attack and fired him when he refused, according to a Monday filing in New York federal court.
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May 13, 2024
An oilfield equipment supplier will pay $35,000 to end a suit in Texas federal court by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of yanking a job offer from a welder because of his opioid use disorder medication, the EEOC said.
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May 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review a white former law professor's unsuccessful suits alleging she was harassed out of her job for challenging race-and-gender-based wage inequities at a historically Black university, despite her argument that the Fifth Circuit flouted precedent when it axed her complaints.
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May 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a lawsuit brought by a former Tufts University dental professor who said the First Circuit ignored crucial evidence and relied on false information when it shut down claims that she lost a promotion for reporting sexual harassment.
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May 10, 2024
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently dealt a severe blow against the use of nondisparagement clauses in deals resolving workplace discrimination claims, with experts saying the justices' stance clears up an ambiguity in state anti-bias law that will result in greater scrutiny being placed on the wording of settlements. Here, experts discuss three things to know about the state high court's ruling.
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May 10, 2024
A former employee of a Florida insurance regulatory agency is suing her onetime employer in federal court, alleging a supervisor made her quit after falsely suspecting she may have bipolar disorder.
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May 10, 2024
A pair of McDonald's workers claiming that the company has allowed sexual harassment to run rampant in its stores asked an Illinois federal judge to certify classes of thousands of women and girls who've worked at Florida locations, arguing that class treatment is the best way to evaluate whether McDonald's has a pattern of tolerating harassment.
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May 10, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court held Friday that the state's civil rights law prohibits employers from retaliating against an employee by targeting a coworker who is a friend or family member, reviving two former prison workers' lawsuit against the state.
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May 10, 2024
A Black doctor must arbitrate her claims that she was mistreated by non-Black colleagues at a home healthcare company and fired after raising concerns that it was sidestepping Medicare billing regulations, a California federal judge ruled, finding an arbitration agreement she signed is legitimate.
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May 10, 2024
A Washington federal judge granted a win Friday to a construction company in a Black ex-worker's lawsuit, saying he failed to show he was forced to quit because he complained about his manager's racist comments and not because of the 18 safety warnings he received.
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May 10, 2024
A Black former Wayfair web designer says he faced a workplace "infused by racial discrimination" during his two years with the Boston-based online retailer and suffered retaliation when he complained, according to a suit filed Friday in Massachusetts state court.
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May 10, 2024
An actor featured in "Star Wars" spin-off series "The Mandalorian" urged a California federal judge to reject Disney's bid to dismiss her suit alleging she was illegally fired for sharing her political views on social media, arguing the company hasn't shown that her posts impeded its artistic expression.
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May 10, 2024
X Corp. denied that Elon Musk implemented policies intended to push out women after he took over the social network formerly known as Twitter, telling a California federal court that any layoffs or actions it took were within the confines of the law.
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May 10, 2024
A former worker at Atlanta's Fox Theatre filed a lawsuit this week accusing the historic venue of allowing sexual harassment to run rampant among its ranks, refusing to discipline employees who made lewd comments — and worse — while retaliating against those who complained.
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May 10, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has closed a former paralegal's discrimination and retaliation case against the Georgia Department of Law and a former deputy attorney general now working as a Cobb County Superior Court judge, saying a settlement has been reached.
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May 10, 2024
Recently finalized regulations tackling what constitutes discrimination under the Affordable Care Act could have significant impacts on health plans that include greater liability for third-party plan administrators, attorneys say. Here are three things employers should know now that the final rule is on the books.