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July 23, 2024
An attorney for the Christian postal carrier whose lawsuit prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to strengthen workers' ability to secure faith-based workplace accommodations struggled Tuesday to convince a trial judge that the updated high court rules tie up the case in the worker's favor.
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July 23, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of Democratic senators Tuesday in introducing a bill to codify the now-defunct doctrine of Chevron deference after it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.
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July 23, 2024
A New Jersey state judge has handed Gov. Phil Murphy a partial win over claims from the state's former elections chief alleging that his civil rights were violated, dismissing a claim that former official had a legal right to his job.
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July 23, 2024
A fired caregiver has told the Michigan Supreme Court that employers should not be able to contractually limit employees' time to sue, arguing that job-seekers who sign such contracts are often in a vulnerable position and forced to accept unfair terms.
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July 23, 2024
An Arizona golf resort fired a beverage cart server for repeated attendance issues, not because she complained that a customer had tried to rip off her skirt, a federal judge ruled in ending the lawsuit.
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July 23, 2024
Ryan Stewart of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped car rental giant Enterprise dodge $160 million in claims that it illegally collected biometric data from workers when it used their fingerprints to register their arrival at work, on top of other victories he secured for Amazon and sales company Credico, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 23, 2024
Though regular performance reviews are standard in many jobs, experts warn that bias can easily creep into evaluations and lead to illegal gender- and race-based pay gaps in a time of increased legislative and public focus on pay inequity. Here, experts from both sides of the bar discuss four strategies to ensure performance reviews aren't unfairly hitting protected workers' pocketbooks.
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July 23, 2024
A Georgia federal jury handed down a $643,000 win to a Hispanic former manufacturing production manager who accused the owner of a stone fabrication company of using racial slurs toward him, then firing him after he complained about a colleague's continued abuse.
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July 23, 2024
Whole Foods Market has reached a tentative settlement with a former employee at its Cambridge, Massachusetts, store who says she was fired in 2020 in retaliation for wearing a Black Lives Matter mask, a month before the case was set to go to trial.
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July 22, 2024
The parent and media companies of the Harlem Globetrotters want out of a female former player's sex bias and harassment suit, telling a Georgia federal court she failed to exhaust her administrative remedies by not first filing her complaints against them with the EEOC and obtaining a right-to-sue letter.
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July 22, 2024
Federal financial services provider State Street agreed to set aside $4.2 million to make wage adjustments in the future as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it discriminated against some women managing directors with its base pay and bonuses, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.
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July 22, 2024
Wells Fargo chose to lay off a longtime managing director to avoid dealing with his request to continue working from home to cope with his bladder and colon condition as the bank readied for a return to office after the pandemic, a federal jury in Charlotte heard Monday.
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July 22, 2024
While Vice President Kamala Harris' work on employment policy has been less publicized than her other endeavors, experts said the potential Democratic presidential nominee's tenure in Congress makes clear that enhancing workplace protections is a priority for her.
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July 22, 2024
Michigan's highest court revived a former Fiat Chrysler employee's lawsuit against the automaker Monday, saying that occupational safety laws don't preempt his claims that he was fired because he raised concerns about potential asbestos at his jobsite.
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July 22, 2024
American Airlines Group Inc. has said a disabled worker aims to have a Texas federal court certify an "unprecedented nationwide class of all disabled American flight attendants" who can't maintain a regular work schedule and has asked the court to strike the plaintiff's class allegation.
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July 22, 2024
A group of Republican state attorneys general urged the Eighth Circuit to revive their lawsuit challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, arguing courts shouldn't defer to the agency's interpretation of the law under fresh U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 22, 2024
A former BlackBerry executive claiming CEO John Giamatteo sexually harassed her on his way up to the top job while she was fired for reporting his actions may not be able to proceed with her suit anonymously, a California federal judge said Monday.
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July 22, 2024
The basketball player claiming that the NCAA's Academic Performance Program discriminates against historically Black colleges and universities is no longer harmed by the program after transferring to a lower-division college, the NCAA has argued to an Indiana federal court.
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July 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit said Monday that a group of former American Express employees must arbitrate their suit claiming the company's diversity initiatives discriminated against white people, rejecting their argument that they were being unlawfully blocked from seeking relief that would benefit others.
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July 22, 2024
A car parts manufacturer, two recruiting agencies and a group of Mexican engineers who alleged the companies lured them to the U.S. with false promises of high-paying jobs before forcing them to work manual labor for long hours and low wages have reached a tentative $1.2 million settlement.
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July 22, 2024
A Washington state jury said Monday that the Port of Seattle owes its ex-police chief $24.2 million, capping off a six-week trial on his claims that the port axed him as punishment for complaining about lack of due process in workplace misconduct investigations.
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July 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit declined to reinstate a lawsuit alleging the Transportation Security Administration fired an officer for complaining that he faced a hostile work environment, saying he failed to overcome the agency's assertion that he was terminated for refusing to comply with an investigation into alleged criminal activity.
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July 22, 2024
A California federal judge has tossed a group of SAG-AFTRA members' claims that the union betrayed them by allowing studios to impose vaccine mandates after the pandemic, saying the workers' state-level claims are preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act and a federal-level claim is untimely.
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July 22, 2024
A former Bergen County Superior Court judge told a New Jersey state court that she must be allowed to depose Chief Justice Stuart Rabner of the New Jersey Supreme Court because he has information about the state's decision to deny her disability benefits application that no one else has.
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July 22, 2024
An Ohio appeals court revived a former U.S. Bank finance director's suit alleging he was denied a more flexible schedule and workspace modifications to help deal with post-stroke impairments, saying a lower court held his complaint to an overly strict standard.