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September 10, 2024
A Georgia county this week fired back against a former courts employee's claims she was disciplined, passed over for promotion and threatened with a longer commute for speaking out about a supervisor's sexual abuse, contending her lawsuit is missing key supporting facts.
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September 10, 2024
A Florida federal judge won't toss a Florida A&M University College of Law professor's suit claiming that she was subjected to race-based discrimination, ruling that although her latest complaint could benefit from "significant refinement," it properly alleges her claims.
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September 10, 2024
An attempt by a former Barclays vice president to revive her claim that she faced racial discrimination during a promotion round has failed, as an employment tribunal ruled that she was merely trying to "have another bite at the cherry."
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September 09, 2024
California State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil created a toxic work environment for her former chief of staff, demanding he perform sex acts to prove his loyalty and firing him for objecting to her "sexualized abuse of power," the former staffer alleged in a new complaint filed in Sacramento Superior Court.
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September 09, 2024
Attorneys for SpaceX urged a California state court judge Monday to rethink a tentative ruling that declined to send a sexual harassment claim by an employee to arbitration but found 10 other claims are arbitrable, arguing the harassment claim predates a statute requiring that it be adjudicated in court.
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September 09, 2024
A Dallas hairstylist school rejected a job applicant because she was pregnant, telling her in a text message that it wasn't in the school's best interest to hire her because it already had a pregnant instructor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Monday in a lawsuit.
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September 09, 2024
The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and an ex-detention officer reached a deal in the officer's sex discrimination lawsuit on the eve of trial, according to a notice filed with a North Carolina federal court.
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September 09, 2024
In the coming weeks, Democrats in the House and Senate will be reintroducing a bill that they say will better protect the approximately 30,000 federal judiciary employees from discrimination and sexual harassment, two lawmakers said on Monday.
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September 09, 2024
A split Sixth Circuit panel said a former maintenance tech for an Ohio township can't revive his suit claiming he was fired for suffering a psychiatric break on the job, ruling he couldn't overcome the township's position that he was fired for missing a work deadline.
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September 09, 2024
Bracewell LLP has strengthened its Houston office with the addition of a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner who helped guide Olin Corp. in successfully asking a Texas federal judge to vacate an arbitration award in June in an employment dispute.
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September 09, 2024
A former sales representative with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. has settled a lawsuit against the company alleging she faced gender-motivated retaliation after reporting a co-worker for falsifying records and hurting her sales numbers.
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September 09, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge declined on Monday to reconsider his ruling that the federal judiciary did not violate the rights of a former North Carolina public defender because the attorney had not adequately put her office on notice of her sexual harassment claims.
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September 09, 2024
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner who helped UPS defeat a former supervisor's sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation suit, strengthening its Atlanta office with a labor and employment litigator.
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September 09, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge slashed a $20 million jury verdict to $1.5 million in a suit alleging that a ventilator supply company failed to protect a Black former employee from co-workers' racist comments, saying the gap between compensatory and punitive damages jurors awarded was too wide.
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September 09, 2024
A Georgia federal judge ignored crucial context and overlooked the "egregious nature" of a racial slur leveled at a Black worker when recommending that a race bias suit brought against a Georgia county by the federal government be thrown out, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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September 09, 2024
A Florida federal judge has declined to step away from a retaliation and breach of contract suit brought by a former law professor at Florida A&M University, noting "even if" the professor were correct in asserting the judge had been critical of her, such critiques do not necessitate recusal.
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September 09, 2024
The Second Circuit rejected a former Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. employee's appeal seeking to revive claims it illegally denied her a remote work situation to care for her daughter while she underwent medical care, ruling Monday that there was no evidence the company had willfully broken the law.
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September 09, 2024
Employer pay data reporting to state or city agencies is a new frontier in pay transparency, but its efficacy may be more rooted in how it alters employer behavior rather than providing valuable information to the public, attorneys say.
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September 09, 2024
An Ohio nursing home will pay $30,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation discovered reasonable cause to believe that a manager drove a worker to quit by harassing her because of her race, the EEOC said.
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September 06, 2024
When California's legislative session wrapped up last month, a failed bill addressing bias by artificial intelligence tools raised eyebrows. But experts say they expect Golden State lawmakers and regulators to take plenty of swings at tackling AI and discrimination in the near future.
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September 06, 2024
Celebrity doctor Carlon Colker has withdrawn his demands seeking pre-litigation discovery materials from the woman who has accused Vince McMahon and former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. executives of sexually assaulting and trafficking her.
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September 06, 2024
A Catholic employer organization urged a North Dakota federal court to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations and updated workplace harassment guidelines, arguing its members face a looming threat of agency action over a refusal to accommodate abortion and infertility treatments.
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September 06, 2024
The former nursing director of a PruittHealth facility in northwest Georgia has sued his former employer claiming a homophobic work environment, alleging that he was subjected to antigay abuse from his coworkers and patients alike before eventually being fired on bogus grounds.
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September 06, 2024
A travel nurse alleged in a lawsuit that Emory Healthcare Inc. unlawfully terminated her three-month contract after she complained that allowing her to administer peritoneal dialysis on Black patients without proper training would be "akin to treating those patients as guinea pigs."
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September 06, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission slapped FedEx with a suit Friday claiming the delivery giant unlawfully screened out drivers with disabilities by barring them from work if they required any form of medical restriction, even if it didn't prevent them from doing their jobs.