A Waldorf Astoria resort will pay $15 million to settle spa workers' proposed class and collective action claims that the resort misclassified them as independent contractors and shorted them on wages and benefits, according to a filing in Hawaii federal court.
Ford Motor Co. does not have to rehire a worker the company fired twice in the early 2020s, the Second Circuit ruled, ordering a new arbitration to decide whether the worker deserves reinstatement after he was fired in 2020 for harassment and again in 2023 for lying.
A Third Circuit panel appeared receptive Wednesday to a physician's push for a second chance at her age, sex and disability discrimination suit involving a denied transfer, because the judges fired pointed questions at an attorney for the hospital where she had been a resident.