As wildfires continue to cause extensive damage in Los Angeles, employers in the region face a challenge in maintaining safe workplaces and living up to their legal obligations. Here, management-side experts offer four tips for doing right by workers while staying on the right side of the law.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday it secured "the highest monetary recovery in its recent history" by bringing in $700 million for workers in the 2024 fiscal year.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's only Republican appointee — who observers expect to take over as the agency's chair — has demonstrated a willingness to lodge commissioner charges by dispatching nearly 40 in recent years, contributing to a general spike in these filings.
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As wildfires continue to cause extensive damage in Los Angeles, employers in the region face a challenge in maintaining safe workplaces and living up to their legal obligations. Here, management-side experts offer four tips for doing right by workers while staying on the right side of the law.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday it secured "the highest monetary recovery in its recent history" by bringing in $700 million for workers in the 2024 fiscal year.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's only Republican appointee — who observers expect to take over as the agency's chair — has demonstrated a willingness to lodge commissioner charges by dispatching nearly 40 in recent years, contributing to a general spike in these filings.
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January 17, 2025
President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment has effectively become part of the U.S. Constitution and is "the law of the land," according to a statement from the White House.
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January 17, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed rule to end the program allowing employers to pay subminimum wages to workers with disabilities drew polarized opinions as the comment period ended Friday, with supporters arguing it is time to pay those workers fairly and critics saying the rule will limit workers' options.
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January 17, 2025
In the coming year, the debate over a carveout to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers is expected to heat up, while challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality are set to continue and pay transparency laws will expand to more states. Here, Law360 takes a look at issues experts say are likely to hit the employment law world in 2025.
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January 17, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is challenging a General Motors policy that limits disability payments to Social Security recipients, accusing GM and the United Auto Workers in a lawsuit filed Friday in Indiana federal court of violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by negotiating the policy.
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January 17, 2025
Automobile maker FCA US LLC allowed sexual harassment to run rampant at a Detroit assembly plant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court Friday, claiming the company ignored and pushed out women who complained about male colleagues' lewd comments.
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January 17, 2025
The Third Circuit wrestled Friday with how it could remedy injuries claimed to be suffered by nurses who lost their jobs for not complying with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, asking what order it could give about something that is no longer in effect and about jobs they no longer have.
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January 17, 2025
A Georgia federal judge has shot down a deal that would have resolved allegations of racial bias in hiring against a metro Atlanta county's fire department, ruling that the proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice lacked a basis to justify prioritizing future Black applicants.
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January 17, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former New York City IT worker's claim that she faced sexual harassment and discrimination at her job and was ultimately forced from her position in retaliation for complaining.
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January 17, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told an Alabama federal court in a sex discrimination lawsuit Friday that a recycling plant declined to hire women for laborer positions simply because of their gender.
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January 17, 2025
A woman whom Harvey Weinstein was convicted of raping has moved to temporarily abandon her civil lawsuit against the disgraced movie mogul, nixing a scheduled March trial in California state court.
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January 17, 2025
Sam's Club fired a food processor because she requested light-duty assignments following a car accident, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Friday in Georgia federal court, saying the retailer based its decision on company policies barring accommodations for injuries sustained outside the workplace.
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January 17, 2025
Duke University and a female scientist have brokered an agreement to end her suit claiming she was paid less than her male counterparts and was threatened with demotions after complaining about it, according to a Friday filing in North Carolina federal court.
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January 17, 2025
The First Circuit on Thursday resuscitated religious discrimination claims brought by a former pharmaceutical company employee who alleged her employer's COVID-19 vaccination mandate during the pandemic was in conflict with her sincerely held religious beliefs.
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January 17, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked an Illinois federal judge to back the agency's bid for information about a worker's claims that a freight shipping company wouldn't accommodate her pregnancy, marking the EEOC's first-ever suit to enforce a Pregnant Workers Fairness Act subpoena.
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January 17, 2025
The First Circuit revived a disability bias suit from a heating company worker who said his knee injury got him fired, ruling that a temporary injury can constitute a disability and that the case should be sent to a jury.
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January 17, 2025
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential preliminary approval of a $5.25 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against a staffing company. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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January 16, 2025
"It Ends With Us" director and actor Justin Baldoni on Thursday lodged a $400 million defamation and extortion suit against his co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, claiming Lively fabricated sexual harassment claims against Baldoni to distract from her "self-inflicted press catastrophe."
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January 16, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday sounded skeptical that a rape prosecution against an opera singer barred the musician from timely suing his former employer, the University of Michigan, over allegations that dismissal proceedings that ended his tenured professorship were biased because he is gay.
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January 16, 2025
A Maryland federal judge refused Thursday to toss the bulk of a lawsuit from a Black judiciary clerk, finding she put forward enough details to support her allegations that a circuit court acted out of bias when it suspended her without pay and barred her from earning overtime.
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January 16, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hit FedEx with a disability bias suit Thursday in New York federal court, claiming it pushed dispatchers to return from COVID-19 remote work assignments while ignoring concerns that their disabilities prevented them from working in office.
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January 16, 2025
A white Jewish law professor accused the University of Pennsylvania in federal court Thursday of harshly punishing her for making observations about Black student achievement while allowing other faculty members to get away with disparaging and threatening Jews and Israelis, in violation of federal law.
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January 16, 2025
A Michigan federal jury on Thursday awarded $133,000 to a fired MGM Grand Detroit warehouse worker who had alleged he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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January 16, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge froze discovery Thursday in a sexual assault case against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black to allow him to file a sanctions motion against the Jane Doe plaintiff and Wigdor LLP, pointing to sealed documents.
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January 16, 2025
A Christian business organization told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a lawsuit filed in North Dakota federal court that the agency is forcing religious employers to choose between their convictions and complying with EEOC directives on workplace abortion accommodations and gender identity issues.
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January 16, 2025
A California county can't escape a lawsuit claiming it treated employees' religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine differently from other employees' health exemptions, a federal judge ruled, though the court suggested the county's bid to decertify the class action may have legs.