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July 18, 2024
A Pennsylvania-based construction company will pay $50,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging its president and owner retaliated against a human resources manager who looked into sexual harassment allegations against the general manager, forcing her to quit.
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July 18, 2024
Garden State Gov. Phil Murphy told a New Jersey state judge Thursday claims from the former elections chief that his civil rights were violated when he was pushed to resign allegedly in retaliation for a satirical article should be tossed, arguing there is nothing in the law that prevents him from asking a state official to resign.
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July 18, 2024
The largest horticultural grower in the United States will pay $172,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation discovered reasonable cause to believe it fostered a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against workers who complained.
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July 18, 2024
A California police department defeated an officer's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired after attending a "Stop the Steal" rally in early 2021, with a federal judge finding he was fired based on social media posts that violated department policies, not his political activities.
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July 18, 2024
Democratic members of the House Education and Workforce Committee called on the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday to investigate potential risks of child labor violations in agency-approved youth work programs after recent infractions.
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July 18, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of workers' claims that Terminix violated anti-disability bias law by firing them for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate because of their preexisting health conditions, stating they didn't show their health issues were disabilities.
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July 18, 2024
A Black former apartment complex manager who accused her ex-employer of putting her in charge of a struggling development because of her race and then firing her for complaining about the situation told a Pennsylvania federal court that her claims had been settled.
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July 17, 2024
A California federal jury considering claims that the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District discriminated against employees who sought religious exemptions from the train agency's COVID-19 mandate rendered a partial verdict Wednesday but hung on a key question, leaving the case unresolved and setting the stage for another trial.
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July 17, 2024
A California federal judge Wednesday rejected the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to bar Tesla from speaking to all putative class members in its lawsuit alleging the carmaker allowed rampant racism to overtake a California factory, rejecting the request while telling its attorney, "Good try, though."
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July 17, 2024
A New Jersey appellate panel Wednesday restored a former Resorts Casino Hotel employee's disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, finding that it was unclear if he was disabled after he suffered severe burns in an explosion aboard his boat.
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July 17, 2024
A former plant manager says in a Connecticut federal lawsuit that a division of Ohio-based roller bearing supplier Timken violated workplace free speech laws by firing him for citing his own multiracial family while discussing with colleagues his beliefs about the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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July 17, 2024
Medical education company VuMedi Inc. has been hit with a sex discrimination suit in New Jersey federal court by the company's former director of medical education, who alleged that her supervisor told her he did not have high expectations for her because she is a mother.
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July 17, 2024
Nexstar Media Group moved Wednesday to dismiss two Michigan federal defamation lawsuits brought by television news managers who were fired after disseminating a memo urging reporters to tone down and balance Pride Month coverage, arguing that both suits lack proof that false and reckless statements were made.
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July 17, 2024
A nursing home operator allowed managers to disparage female employees and neglect residents, ultimately firing a nursing director who expressed concerns regarding these incidents of "extreme malpractice and negligence," according to a complaint filed Wednesday in a New York state court.
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July 17, 2024
A former content strategy analyst at Gannett was the only member of his department included in a 2022 round of layoffs because he's visually impaired and works from home — a violation of federal disability law, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Florida federal court.
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July 17, 2024
The Ninth Circuit said on Tuesday that Washington employment law applies to a worker's wrongful termination claims against Fivos Inc., stymieing the worker's attempt to apply Egyptian labor law because she had worked from the country.
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July 17, 2024
The Ninth Circuit backed the dismissal Wednesday of a former Buddhist apprentice's suit claiming his temple failed to accommodate his PTSD, knocking down arguments that the menial work he completed in his role prevented his claims from being nullified by a ministerial exception to anti-bias law.
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July 17, 2024
A Michigan federal judge released the University of Michigan on Wednesday from a Black law professor's lawsuit accusing the school of harshly disciplining her after she complained about race discrimination, saying she failed to rebut the university's argument that she was punished because she threatened staff members.
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July 17, 2024
The Sixth Circuit appeared inclined Wednesday to uphold a $58,000 verdict awarded to a commercial diver who accused an environmental cleanup company of subjecting her to harassment and belittlement, with several judges expressing doubt about superseding the jury's conclusion.
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July 17, 2024
A report released on Wednesday makes 34 suggested reforms for the federal judiciary to better protect its approximately 30,000 employees, including clerks, building off changes made following the #MeToo movement.
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July 17, 2024
SAP America Inc. canned a software sales representative in his 60s just as he was about to land a million-dollar deal in order to hand off the sale to a younger woman on his team, according to an age discrimination suit filed against the company in Pennsylvania federal court.
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July 17, 2024
A chemical transportation company urged a South Carolina federal court to toss a former lift operator's lawsuit alleging he was fired for taking legal CBD because of cysts on his brain and spinal cord, arguing disability law doesn't protect workers from positive drug tests for THC.
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July 17, 2024
An IHOP restaurant agreed to pay $40,000 to resolve a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the business of firing a Christian cook because he asked to take Sundays off to attend church, a filing in North Carolina federal court said.
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July 16, 2024
A Colorado federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former Marathon Petroleum human resources supervisor who claimed she was forced out for inappropriate behavior while male coworkers got a free pass, finding that the supervisor's conduct was worse than the male colleague who she claimed received preferential treatment.
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July 16, 2024
Superstore chain Fred Meyer Stores Inc. failed to stop a male sales clerk from repeatedly harassing, leering at and stalking women he worked with despite numerous complaints, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court in Washington state Tuesday.