The Tenth Circuit's recent, lengthy decision reinstating a former Walmart employee's lawsuit alleging he endured homophobic harassment sharpens the sometimes misapplied frameworks governing hostile work environment claims, experts said.
A D.C. federal judge has rejected a Black property manager's claims that her former employer paid her less than male and white colleagues and retaliated against her after she raised pay concerns, finding the company's pay decisions were driven by experience and property size rather than race or sex.
New York state and the Amazon Labor Union have urged a federal judge to make the National Labor Relations Board turn over communications with the U.S. Department of Labor as they seek to prove the president's new sway over the agency guts the government's exclusive claim to labor policy.