The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its first guidance on workplace harassment since 1999, winning plaudits from lawyers who commended the bias watchdog's thoroughness, though the agency noted that some hotly contested issues may need to be handled case by case. Here are five takeaways from the long-awaited guidance.
This month, the Second Circuit will review a bias case over paternity leave, the Eighth Circuit will tackle back-to-back legal battles over allegedly false testimony and the bounds of a federal law curbing mandatory arbitration and the Seventh Circuit will consider whether an unconscious bias training was unlawful. Here's a look at four oral argument sessions in May that employment discrimination attorneys may want to add to their calendars.
An Indiana federal court Tuesday dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names only would be asking too much under a standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its first guidance on workplace harassment since 1999, winning plaudits from lawyers who commended the bias watchdog's thoroughness, though the agency noted that some hotly contested issues may need to be handled case by case. Here are five takeaways from the long-awaited guidance.
This month, the Second Circuit will review a bias case over paternity leave, the Eighth Circuit will tackle back-to-back legal battles over allegedly false testimony and the bounds of a federal law curbing mandatory arbitration and the Seventh Circuit will consider whether an unconscious bias training was unlawful. Here's a look at four oral argument sessions in May that employment discrimination attorneys may want to add to their calendars.
An Indiana federal court Tuesday dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names only would be asking too much under a standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
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May 01, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge won't yet allow the attorneys representing Donald Trump's campaign to withdraw from a pregnancy retaliation suit brought by a former campaign aide over what they called an "irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship," but on Wednesday set a conference to review the request behind closed doors.
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May 01, 2024
Attorneys representing transgender clients in Florida and Alabama have urged the Eleventh Circuit to heed a recent Fourth Circuit ruling striking down bans on state-funded coverage for gender-affirming medical care, saying the court ruled that the state policies violate federal law because their exclusions were based on gender identity and sex.
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May 01, 2024
Two bipartisan senators once again introduced legislation Wednesday that would ban discrimination targeting hairstyles commonly associated with African heritage.
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May 01, 2024
A New York judge said Wednesday that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will be retried sometime after September, following last week's decision by the state's highest court to overturn his rape conviction due to the admission of overly broad evidence at trial.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania appeals court scrapped the reinstatement Wednesday of a Kutztown University police officer who was fired for sharing racist and offensive posts on his personal Facebook page, ruling that the arbitrator who gave him his job back improperly ignored anti-bias laws.
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May 01, 2024
A senior living facility operator has agreed to settle allegations that it unlawfully discriminated against a worker in the U.S. on asylum by demanding that the worker present specific documents to prove that she could work, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
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May 01, 2024
The Atlanta Police Department abruptly terminated a Muslim police officer recruit after he complained to management that fellow recruits had used profanity to mock his religion, scratched his car and stolen his uniform, a new lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court said.
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May 01, 2024
South Carolina-based attorney and law firm founder Billy R. Oswald has reached an agreement with a former employee to dismiss claims alleging he solicited his employees for sex.
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May 01, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su defended her U.S. Department of Labor role and recent agency rules at a U.S. House committee hearing on Wednesday from Republicans who accused her of serving through a "loophole" and who questioned the legality of actions under her leadership.
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May 01, 2024
A financial services company laid off a human resources worker after she took federal medical leave and in retaliation for her repeated complaints about pay disparities between herself and younger, male employees, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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May 01, 2024
A Black female insurance and construction law attorney sued Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP and its three name partners Tuesday in New York federal court, alleging she was subjected to a "despicable campaign" of harassment for more than a decade.
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May 01, 2024
Boston Scientific Corp. defeated a former maintenance worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's Black, with a Minnesota federal judge finding that the worker's insubordination during a misconduct investigation cost him his job rather than discrimination.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district can't snag a win on claims that it paid women teachers less than their male colleagues because it is clear that while the teachers performed comparable work, the pay was different, the women told a federal court.
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May 01, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined to give an Illinois city diversity officer a second chance at her sex bias suit that claimed she was terminated after complaining that male co-workers were paid more for lighter workloads, ruling she didn't adequately back up her allegations.
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May 01, 2024
A California federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from a former Tesla manager alleging he was fired because he was nearing 60 years old and took medical leave to treat his diabetes, saying an arbitration agreement he signed should be enforced.
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April 30, 2024
The former global head of product development at medical manufacturer Olympus Corp. said he was fired earlier this year after he reported multiple compliance concerns regarding the company's practices and related to nearly 100 products, according to a suit filed Monday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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April 30, 2024
A former Reed Smith LLP paralegal hasn't shown that the firm's flagging of her work performance issues and her eventual termination stemmed from age and race discrimination, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday, handing the law firm a final win in the nearly 9-year-old litigation.
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April 30, 2024
The ousted chairman of software investment company The Resource Group International Ltd. is urging a New York court to order his former company to submit to his arbitration claim, in which he accuses its top brass of improperly profiting after he resigned following a sexual harassment scandal.
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April 30, 2024
The Detroit Tigers has told a federal court that a former employee who alleged the club made a habit of letting older workers go to promote younger ones shouldn't be allowed to have eight other departed or demoted staff members testify in an upcoming trial.
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April 30, 2024
Fiat Chrysler and a United Auto Workers local have agreed to resolve a former worker's lawsuit alleging she was fired for complaining about anti-gay harassment she faced and her union didn't adequately pursue her grievance, according to a filing in Michigan federal court.
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April 30, 2024
The Fifth Circuit refused Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit from two Black workers who said a higher education services company fired them for complaining about race bias, saying they hadn't overcome the company's argument that combative behavior and missed work goals were the reasons they lost their jobs.
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April 30, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a job applicant's state pay transparency suit against a rent-to-own retailer, ruling the job-seeker didn't prove how the company's failure to include pay information in a job listing negatively affected him.
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April 30, 2024
Welch Foods Inc. on Tuesday said a Pennsylvania magistrate judge is wrong to say the company should be forced to rehire a Teamsters-represented worker it fired for making vulgar comments to a female co-worker, saying the words the ex-employee used should be construed as sexual harassment.
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April 30, 2024
An Atlanta-based EMS provider was hit with a lawsuit by a former paramedic who says in under one year with the company, she faced a workplace rife with sexual harassment, domestic abuse, medical malpractice, retaliation and white supremacist affiliations.
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April 30, 2024
A Memphis, Tennessee, restaurant will pay up $60,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it failed to step in when a gay employee said he was harassed with homophobic comments and then fired him for complaining about the mistreatment.