The Ninth Circuit reopened a NASA scientist's lawsuit Monday claiming supervisors made disparaging comments and denied him work opportunities after he informed them about his debilitating hip and spine conditions, ruling a lower court was wrong to find no connection between the alleged harassment and his disabilities.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's newly finalized regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act restrict the paperwork employers can request from pregnant employees seeking accommodations, limitations experts say could catch businesses off guard. Here are three things companies and workers should keep in mind about the regulations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently suggested that software vendor Workday may be liable if its artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools unlawfully screen out certain groups of applicants, a position that experts said could encourage private class actions if courts agree.
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The Ninth Circuit reopened a NASA scientist's lawsuit Monday claiming supervisors made disparaging comments and denied him work opportunities after he informed them about his debilitating hip and spine conditions, ruling a lower court was wrong to find no connection between the alleged harassment and his disabilities.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's newly finalized regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act restrict the paperwork employers can request from pregnant employees seeking accommodations, limitations experts say could catch businesses off guard. Here are three things companies and workers should keep in mind about the regulations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently suggested that software vendor Workday may be liable if its artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools unlawfully screen out certain groups of applicants, a position that experts said could encourage private class actions if courts agree.
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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 being played 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 has taken the helm of 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.
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April 22, 2024
Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose has asked a New York state court to throw out a former Penthouse model's civil suit claiming he sexually assaulted her in a hotel in the late 1980s, arguing that the interaction was consensual and calling the claim "salacious, inflammatory and false."
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April 22, 2024
A former senior medical affairs director for Johnson & Johnson's research unit sued the company on Friday in New Jersey state court, alleging she was fired in retaliation for a separate lawsuit filed years earlier in which she named a boss from her prior employer who had recently joined Johnson & Johnson.
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April 22, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice urged a federal court to take its side in an attorney's lawsuit alleging she faced discrimination at the agency for being a Black woman, arguing that the white man who got the job for which she'd interviewed was the most qualified candidate.
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April 22, 2024
A Washington federal judge seemed to doubt Monday that the University of Washington went too far when it removed a professor's political statements from his syllabi, noting that the comments were disruptive because they caused students to drop the mandatory course.
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April 22, 2024
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an Ohio public service commissioner's bias suit alleging he was swept up in a round of layoffs because of his older age, ruling Monday that the city showed COVID-19-related budget concerns drove its decision-making, not prejudice.
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April 22, 2024
With its budget passage Saturday, New York became the first state in the U.S. to implement paid leave for pregnant employees to attend doctors' appointments, expanding its paid sick time requirements to create a new bank of up to 20 hours for this purpose.
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April 22, 2024
A Massachusetts federal jury handed a $100,000 win to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee in her lawsuit alleging she was forced to find a new role after her supervisor repeatedly hugged and kissed her without consent and blocked her exit from his office.
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April 22, 2024
An IRS employee told an Iowa federal court Monday that her supervisor groped her and made a sexually degrading comment about her during a meeting but that the agency "has done nothing" to protect her, despite an investigation concluding the harassment had likely occurred.
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April 22, 2024
Despite originally declining to recuse himself from a surgeon's gender discrimination case against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital when an attorney from his son-in-law's firm, Cozen O'Connor, became involved, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson changed his mind now that the case is set for a retrial.
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April 22, 2024
Ohio's Hocking College has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by the mother of the first college football player with Down syndrome to score during a game, following accusations his former supervisor at the student recreation center threatened him with a knife.
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April 22, 2024
A Georgia pesticide maker has denied all wrongdoing after being hit with a U.S. Department of Labor complaint earlier this year that accused the company of firing a whistleblower who complained about her exposure to dangerous chemical fumes.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a former Hewlett Packard employee's challenge to a Fourth Circuit decision finding he wasn't entitled to a jury trial over allegations that he was fired for seeking accommodations to treat an arthritic toe.
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April 22, 2024
A Virginia school district defeated a math and science teacher's suit claiming the school refused to let her temporarily teach remotely after being diagnosed with a respiratory illness, with a federal judge finding parts of her job required her to be at the school.
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April 22, 2024
Cannabis company Trulieve has reached a deal with a Black former manager to end his suit alleging he was fired after reporting a supervisor's sexual misconduct and several safety violations, according to a filing in Florida federal court.
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April 22, 2024
Republic Airways fired a pilot because he wore an earring to work in violation of a company appearance policy that unlawfully discriminates against workers based on gender expression, the pilot told a New York federal court Monday.
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April 22, 2024
State legislatures around the country are winding down legislative sessions that began in January, bringing newly enacted employment laws into effect in the coming months. From child labor to pay inequality to mandatory overtime, Law360 looks at five state laws that employers will have to comply with.