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June 06, 2024
Rather than having a Pennsylvania federal judge who has presided over their equal-pay case for years recuse himself over having a son-in-law who's a shareholder at Cozen O'Connor, a class of female teachers asked the court to kick Cozen O'Connor PC off the case Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
The maker of Tastykake snacks can't escape the bulk of a Black, Muslim ex-worker's suit claiming it unfairly docked time from him for taking prayer breaks, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, finding the suit could stay in court even though it read as a "disjointed laundry list" of grievances.
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June 06, 2024
A trucking and logistics company will pay $65,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it denied a worker's request to rest on the Sabbath and ignored his complaints that his colleagues harassed him, according to an Ohio federal court filing Thursday.
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June 05, 2024
A Palestinian American software engineer at Meta Platforms Inc. said his former employer has a "chronic anti-Palestinian bias," and he was fired in the midst of trying to address the company's problems with needlessly censoring Palestinian social media posts, according to a suit filed in California state court.
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June 05, 2024
An American Federation of Musicians local urged a New York federal court Wednesday to dismiss duty of fair representation claims from two orchestra musicians, arguing that the plaintiffs didn't raise allegations of "any plausible violation" of an arbitration award reinstating the duo.
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June 05, 2024
The Catholic Radio Association is up in arms over the Federal Communications Commission's new workforce diversity reporting mandates that will require broadcasters to report how many nonbinary people they employ, telling the agency they're being forced to record something that "does not comport to reality."
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June 05, 2024
Kanye West repeatedly sexually harassed a woman who worked as his assistant by sending her inappropriate and profane texts and forcing her to watch him masturbate, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the rapper and some of his companies.
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June 05, 2024
An Indiana appeals court on Wednesday reinstated claims against a medical clinic that employed a physician who improperly accessed the medical records of female patients for personal reasons, saying whether the doctor was acting within the scope of his employment is an issue still up for debate.
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June 05, 2024
A former head medical physician for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, who is Black, has filed a defamation and civil rights lawsuit against Emory Healthcare Inc. and the team, alleging he was continuously denied leadership opportunities in favor of white colleagues before abruptly being fired.
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June 05, 2024
The Ninth Circuit said a Black job hopeful can't revive his bias and retaliation suit alleging pet care business Wag rejected him for a manager role because he complained that the company's hiring manager discriminated against him in another job, ruling that his case lacks proof to stay in play.
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June 05, 2024
The Florida arm of rental car giant Enterprise can't use the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's hiring data to combat the agency's allegations that the company discriminated against older applicants for a training program because such information is irrelevant, the federal bias watchdog told a federal court.
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June 05, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has tossed a Fiat Chrysler employee's sexual harassment and retaliation claims against the company over the alleged actions of her union steward, saying the worker hadn't responded to a court order.
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June 05, 2024
New York-based plaintiffs firm Napoli Shkolnik PLLC and a former attorney told a federal court they've agreed to end the ex-employee's lawsuit alleging she was publicly accused of breaking her employment contract by "quiet quitting" because she challenged the racist behavior she witnessed.
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June 05, 2024
A New Hampshire turbomachinery company can't dodge a transgender employee's lawsuit alleging its healthcare plan's ban on gender dysphoria treatment coverage is discriminatory, with a federal judge ruling the company overlooked the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision.
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June 05, 2024
Amtrak and a Chick-fil-A franchise ran afoul of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by punishing workers for taking time off for pregnancy-related medical care, according to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges a worker advocacy group said it filed Wednesday.
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June 05, 2024
An Ohio appellate court revived parts of a cancer research scientist's suit accusing Ohio State University of mishandling a probe into his conduct sparked by a New York Times article the scientist said defamed him, ruling his claims the school failed to follow its own policy should continue.
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June 05, 2024
An attorney sanctioned for missing a deposition in Florida while he was in Arkansas viewing April's solar eclipse used "guesswork" in a response asking a federal judge in the Sunshine State to whittle a request for $7,800 in fees down to just over $1,200, according to a reply filed this week by AAA in a lawsuit by a former employee.
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June 05, 2024
Kaufman Dolowich has hired a pair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP employment attorneys as partners in Los Angeles.
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June 05, 2024
A Southern California waste collection company will pay more than $104,000 and hire 10 women to end an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor into the company's discriminatory hiring practices against female job applicants.
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June 05, 2024
Ally Financial Inc. declined to tap a white male employee for a leadership position so it could pick a woman and fulfill its diversity quotas and pushed him into an analyst role he was later forced to resign from, according to a suit filed in North Carolina federal court.
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June 05, 2024
A coming joint memorandum from the nation's federal discrimination and labor law watchdogs addressing when workplace speech qualifies as unlawful harassment should be opened to public comment before being published, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee said.
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June 05, 2024
Legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa has asked a Maryland federal judge to toss an associate's claim that she was retaliated against after suing Troutman Pepper for racial discrimination, arguing that the absence of a contract between the parties dooms her claim, and that she failed to show that the recruiter "acted with a retaliatory motive or intent."
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June 04, 2024
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is facing a new lawsuit accusing it of firing an Indian product manager on an H-1B visa after the former employee confronted his supervisor for allegedly discriminating against him based on his race and nationality.
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June 04, 2024
A Georgia county that lost a legal challenge to a provision of its health plan that bars coverage for gender-affirming surgery has asked the full Eleventh Circuit to revisit the decision, arguing that an opinion last month wrongly found the policy discriminates against transgender people, rather than being isolated to a single procedure.
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June 04, 2024
Two federal agencies' ongoing investigations into claims that artificial intelligence-fueled screening tools sold by management consulting firm Aon discriminate against disabled job applicants show that tech vendors are overlooking disability bias when they roll out new technology, worker advocates say.