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September 03, 2024
A former vice president and chief human resources officer for The Elevance Health Companies Inc. claims it terminated his employment to hire a substantially younger person and tried to call it a retirement, according to an age discrimination suit filed in a Georgia federal court Tuesday.
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September 03, 2024
The Sixth Circuit reinstated a former employee's suit Tuesday claiming she was fired by a painting company after she asked to be placed in a department with fewer paint fumes to accommodate her asthma, stating a jury needs to sort out whether her request was reasonable.
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September 03, 2024
An African American former employee at the Seattle Municipal Court has alleged that she was the target of racist and sexist comments and that a court administrator falsely claimed in a courtwide email that she had been arrested and charged with a serious crime when she was on sick leave.
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September 03, 2024
Retailer Aaron's urged a Washington state court to throw out a job applicant's proposed class action accusing it of failing to post salary ranges in job advertisements, saying the worker's 15 other similar lawsuits show he had no interest in actually getting a job at the company.
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September 03, 2024
The California Senate voted in favor of a union-backed bill that would bar employers from requiring employees to attend meetings related to religious or political matters — including company-organized meetings used to discourage union-formation — sending the so-called captive audience bill to the governor's desk.
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September 03, 2024
The Eighth Circuit will consider reviving a red state challenge to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, and the Eleventh Circuit will decide whether to let Florida bar a transgender teacher from sharing her preferred pronouns and title at work. Here, Law360 looks at four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in September.
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September 03, 2024
The Eighth Circuit revived a former Union Pacific conductor's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired after failing a color vision test, ruling Tuesday that a lower court erroneously said his participation in a defunct class action couldn't save his claims.
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September 03, 2024
An evangelical teacher urged the Seventh Circuit to revive his religious bias lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired for refusing to use transgender students' gender-affirming names and pronouns, arguing a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision backs keeping his case in court.
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September 03, 2024
Duane Morris LLP is asking a California federal court to toss most of the claims in a proposed class action alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys, saying the attorney who filed the complaint has been fairly treated and compensated and her claims lack validity.
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September 03, 2024
A former law professor at Florida A&M University wants the federal judge assigned to her retaliation lawsuit against the university to recuse himself, saying he has shown a "pattern of hostility" toward her in multiple court orders, according to a motion filed Tuesday.
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September 03, 2024
A gas packaging manufacturer illegally fired 10 employees who refused its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds or because they had a disability, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed in Oklahoma federal court.
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September 03, 2024
A former employee at an Atlanta-area Sprouts Farmers Market hit the grocery chain with a lawsuit alleging she was unlawfully fired for complaining about harassing comments a co-worker repeatedly made about her sexuality.
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August 31, 2024
Outgoing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Keith Sonderling told Law360 in an exclusive interview that elevating the agency's visibility on the artificial intelligence front and reviving the U.S. Department of Labor's use of opinion letters rank among his top accomplishments during his nearly decadelong stint in federal government.
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August 30, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit revived a former Amerijet employee's lawsuit alleging the cargo airline fired her because she's a Black woman, ruling Friday that a lower court used an erroneously high standard when tossing her claims.
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August 30, 2024
The woman accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and two former executives of sexual abuse and trafficking in Connecticut federal court should lose her separate but related bid for discovery against a celebrity doctor who treated her, the doctor has argued in a motion to dismiss the state court action.
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August 30, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider attempts from the operators of Four Seasons Hotel New York to toss a class action that claims the hotel violated state and federal law by furloughing them without notice.
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August 30, 2024
A North Carolina federal jury has awarded two former Wake County deputies $1 million, finding former Sheriff Gerald Baker fired them for speaking up about homophobic and racially charged language in a training session.
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August 30, 2024
A Black former public defender has sued the Defender Association of Philadelphia for racial bias, claiming the organization fired her based on her race and that it treats Black employees differently than White ones.
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August 30, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5.2 million deal in a wage and hour class action against Walmart alleging the retail giant failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 health screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 30, 2024
An auto parts company urged a North Carolina federal judge to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit for good, arguing that the agency "exaggerates the evidence" in an effort to prove that a former employee was sexually harassed out of her job.
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August 30, 2024
This fall Alabama is set to increase penalties for child labor violations, and Maryland will expand its pay transparency requirements. Here, Law360 explores these and other state and local wage and hour developments attorneys should know.
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August 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit said it would take up a midsuit appeal from Eli Lilly challenging a lower court's ruling granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit, backpedaling from an order in July that declined to take up the dispute because of its incomplete record.
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August 30, 2024
A former Occidental Petroleum Corp. employee can't upend an arbitrator's determination that the company didn't violate an agreement settling claims that she was sexually assaulted at work, with a Texas appellate court finding she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she accepted two stock grants.
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August 30, 2024
A Massachusetts man applying for jobs with Staples Inc. filed a proposed class action alleging the company violated a state law that requires companies to notify candidates that the use of lie detectors is banned for hiring decisions, the latest such case targeting a major Bay State employer.
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August 29, 2024
A class of pilots accusing American Airlines of violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 by denying pay for time spent on military leave can't seek liquidated damages, given a lack of evidence that the airline knew it was breaking the law, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.