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April 25, 2024
Marshall Dennehey PC has added an employment law and trial attorney to its Mount Laurel, New Jersey, roster who came aboard from Flahive Mueller LLC.
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April 25, 2024
A former cellphone retailer owes nearly $108,000 in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging a teenage employee was sexually assaulted by an older male manager, a California federal judge said, adopting a recommendation that the company be penalized for neglecting the suit.
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April 25, 2024
Workday Inc. urged a California federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to file an "inappropriately partisan" amicus brief in support of a Black job hopeful's suit claiming the business uses biased algorithms to disqualify applicants.
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April 25, 2024
A real estate company gave a Black manager more than twice as much work as his white colleague, paid him less and then fired him because he was "lazy," the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in Georgia federal court.
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April 25, 2024
Harvey Weinstein seems poised to go to trial again in New York and testify in his own defense after the state's highest court overturned the movie mogul's rape conviction Thursday in a contentious, split opinion that found his first jury proceeding was unfair.
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April 24, 2024
Whole Foods hasn't yet proven that its firing of a worker who wore a Black Lives Matter mask to work wasn't retaliatory, the First Circuit said in an opinion unsealed Wednesday, ruling that there is a "genuine dispute" as to whether she was terminated for protected conduct.
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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.