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April 17, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Wednesday it has brought aboard a new partner to lead the Denver branch of its national labor and employment practice who has more than 10 years of law firm experience, most recently at Fisher Phillips.
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April 17, 2024
Management-side employment firm Ogletree Deakins is expanding into western New York, announcing Tuesday that it is adding a shareholder in Buffalo from Goldberg Segalla.
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April 17, 2024
Welch Foods should comply with an arbitrator's order to rehire a Teamsters-represented worker fired for making vulgar comments to a female co-worker, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge said, recommending that the district judge toss the company's challenge to the order.
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April 17, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit revived a Black Haitian worker's suit claiming she was fired from two government contractors for complaining that she wasn't receiving raises or promotions because of her race, saying the lower court was too critical when it tossed her suit as a "shotgun pleading."
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April 17, 2024
A longtime Littler Mendelson PC attorney has joined international labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Cleveland office.
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April 17, 2024
A California federal judge paused discovery in a suit claiming X, formerly Twitter, owes $500 million in severance to the workers the company laid off after Elon Musk's takeover, saying the court should wait to sort out the company's dismissal bid.
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April 17, 2024
Logistics company DHL will pay $8.7 million to resolve a 14-year-old U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it gave Black workers more difficult and dangerous work assignments than white employees, according to an agreement filed in Illinois federal court.
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April 17, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminatory job transfers even if they don't come with significant harm, a declaration that clears the way for more workplace bias suits to move ahead.
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April 16, 2024
Television producer William Schultz has sued Al Roker and his production company in New York federal court, alleging that he was wrongfully fired from the show "Weather Hunters" after voicing support for an initiative to bring minority writers onto the PBS children's show.
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April 16, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recently finalized rule to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act poses new compliance questions for employers and is all but certain to be challenged in court, experts say. Here are three areas to keep an eye on now that the final regulations are out.
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April 16, 2024
New York's highest court grappled Tuesday with whether a state regulation's exemption process shielding religious groups from a requirement that employee health plans cover abortions conflicted with a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court decision, with multiple judges questioning the constitutionality of the carveout procedure.
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April 16, 2024
A lawyer for hip-hop mogul and Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday that a 1997 settlement agreement and release bars a former label executive from pursuing her rape claims in court.
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April 16, 2024
Johnson & Johnson can't escape a scientist's lawsuit alleging it terminated her because she was pregnant so it could avoid paying her salary while on maternity leave, with a New Jersey federal judge ruling her allegations were detailed enough to stay in court.
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April 16, 2024
A former manager for Kroger will not get to argue his claims he was fired because he is a white man before the full Sixth Circuit, according to a new order, letting stand the appellate court's decision to dismiss the former manager's claims.
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April 16, 2024
A Texas automotive dealership has agreed to pay $325,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it fired a 65-year-old executive after he was diagnosed with cancer to avoid covering his medical bills, according to a filing in Texas federal court.
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April 16, 2024
A manufactured-home builder will pay $135,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing it of firing a white worker because he has a multiracial family and refused to take part in conversations belittling Black people, the agency said Tuesday.
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April 16, 2024
Washington, D.C.-area firm Shulman Rogers PA announced that it hired a trio of former Bowie & Jensen LLC attorneys to lead the firm's expansion to Baltimore, where it plans to open a new office in the near future.
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April 16, 2024
The Fifth Circuit declined to reinstate constitutional claims from officers who said a constable punished them for not supporting his reelection campaign, upholding a finding that a Texas county can't be held liable for his actions.
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April 16, 2024
A Virginia healthcare system defeated a suit claiming it unlawfully refused to excuse two Christian employees from its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with a federal judge finding they could have taken a version of the vaccine that didn't conflict with their religious beliefs.
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April 15, 2024
Connecticut's state human rights watchdog has urged a state court to uphold a $62,000 award in favor of a Charter Communications worker who says she was fired because she had post-traumatic stress disorder, arguing that the decision followed sound legal principles and the judicial branch should defer to the agency's ruling.
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April 15, 2024
Counsel representing a putative class of roughly 6,000 Black Tesla workers alleging the automaker has allowed racism to run rampant at its California factory fired back during a class certification hearing Monday, calling Tesla's suggestion that plaintiffs counsel are driving the state's civil-rights litigation "beyond preposterous."
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April 15, 2024
A North Dakota hospital will pay $45,000 to resolve a lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lodged accusing it of firing a Black nurse's aide less than a week after she reported that a colleague had called her the N-word, the agency announced Monday.
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April 15, 2024
The Tenth Circuit refused Monday to revive a doctor's lawsuit claiming a Kansas hospital refused to let him work after he was diagnosed with minor neurocognitive disorder, finding it was unreasonable to expect the medical center to pay over $1 million for another physician to supervise him.
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April 15, 2024
Harvard University has said a lawsuit seeking to force it to submit to court-ordered monitoring and other conditions following allegations of antisemitism on campus "is neither an effective nor legally appropriate vehicle" to address the issue.
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April 15, 2024
An Alabama federal jury rejected a former athletic director's gender bias suit alleging she was paid less than male colleagues and demoted by an Alabama school board, four months after the case was revived by the Eleventh Circuit.