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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.
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June 04, 2024
The trade group representing the largest U.S. airlines alleged in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that Chicago's new paid sick leave law cannot be enforced against airlines because it interferes with flight crew staffing and scheduling in violation of federal law and collective bargaining agreements.
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June 04, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that the Office of Personnel Management violated federal civil rights law when it denied a transgender retiree's claims for gender-affirming care, reversing an agency decision that determined he hadn't been subjected to discrimination.
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June 04, 2024
A Black woman who was a global marketing manager for Honeywell International Inc. has accused the conglomerate of using layoffs as a pretext to get rid of her after she filed an internal complaint calling into question her manager's treatment of women and people of color.
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June 04, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied a real estate firm's effort to take an early win over a discrimination and retaliation suit brought by one of its Black former property managers, ruling that there are still too many open questions about the worker's treatment as she oversaw a problem-ridden Ohio apartment complex.
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June 04, 2024
A fired county executive's letter calling the county's legal counsel incompetent was sent as part of his official job duties, a Michigan county said Monday, arguing that the comments were not protected speech and can't give rise to a retaliation claim.
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June 04, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a doctor's suit claiming a New York University hospital fired him instead of accommodating his disability, saying the hospital was on solid ground to let him go because he couldn't perform a particular procedure.
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June 04, 2024
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday upended a pharmacist's $134,000 jury trial win in her lawsuit accusing a Missouri city of unlawfully barring her from bringing her service dog to work to help her monitor her diabetes, saying she failed to show that she needed the dog to do her job.
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June 04, 2024
The Second Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a former TD Bank manager's suit claiming he was fired because he suffered from anxiety and had requested parental leave, finding he couldn't overcome the bank's explanation that he was let go because of forgery.
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June 04, 2024
A former legal tech executive's lawsuit claiming she was sexually harassed, fired and then cut out of $1 million in stock options should be moved from New York to either Texas or arbitration, or dismissed entirely, her former colleagues said Tuesday, calling the allegations against them "vague and conclusory."
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June 04, 2024
The former vice president of product line management at Lumentum has been accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of using nonpublic information about a pending merger to trade stock during his time with the laser products company.
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June 04, 2024
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed longtime New York-based partner Jyotin "Joe" Hamid as the new co-chair of its litigation department, succeeding Mary Beth Hogan next month as she prepares to retire at the end of the year.
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June 04, 2024
New Jersey's civil rights agency proposed a rule laying out the standards for the state's prohibitions on workplace policies that have a disproportionate impact on people in protected classes.
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June 04, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Fresno, California, absorbing a location previously operated by Raimondo Miller ALC and its five attorneys, the firm has announced.
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June 04, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit refused to rethink the denial of class certification in a suit alleging AT&T discriminated against pregnant workers by penalizing them for childbirth-related absences, saying an appeal from a worker who intervened following a settlement deal was premature.
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June 04, 2024
A Wisconsin plastics company defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a Black employee endured a hostile work environment, with a federal judge finding that one alleged use of a racial slur at work wasn't enough to keep the case alive.
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June 04, 2024
Google reached a deal to resolve a suit from a former manager who claimed he was fired because the company wanted to oust older men in favor of young women, a filing in Texas federal court said.
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June 03, 2024
General Mills workers sued in Georgia federal court on Sunday alleging the food giant tolerated a racist environment at its Covington plant perpetuated by a fraternity of white male supremacists who used Confederate and Ku Klux Klan-associated imagery and who treated Black workers unfairly, including by denying them promotions.
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June 03, 2024
A California appellate court has refused to undo a lower court's decision finding that Hooters of America must continue to fight former servers' allegations that they were harassed and abused at work, ruling that Hooters hasn't met its burden of showing that it was entitled to summary adjudication.
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June 03, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed torn over whether it should "split hairs" between religious conduct and religious belief as it weighed whether to uphold a Southwest flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit over graphic anti-abortion messages she sent her union president.
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June 03, 2024
The Third Circuit said a lower court needs to take another look at a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging Novo Nordisk told a worker she couldn't transfer positions because of her older age, remanding the case in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.