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June 10, 2024
A Georgia chicken processor and a New Jersey food distributor are the latest businesses to settle suits with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it targeted 15 companies for failing to submit mandatory workforce demographic reports to the government, according to Monday court filings.
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June 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of the Treasury defeated an Internal Revenue Service agent's suit claiming he was disciplined for a three-day celebration of Easter mandated by his Christian faith, with a Florida federal judge finding the reprimand was based on performance rather than religion.
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June 07, 2024
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Friday reversed a California federal court's dismissal of a proposed class action challenging a recently rescinded Los Angeles Unified School District policy requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine to keep their jobs, ruling that the district still has the potential to reinstate it.
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June 07, 2024
A federal court trimmed a state-level claim of hostile work environment and two allegations of racial bias from a Black former emergency room doctor at a hospital outside Philadelphia, but said there were enough questions of fact for other parts of her case to move ahead.
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June 07, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive a discrimination suit filed by a former security officer in Atlanta's federal courthouse who says he faced homophobic harassment and was assaulted by another officer while on the job, a three-judge panel said Thursday.
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June 07, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday it had resolved lawsuits accusing a New Jersey janitorial company and a Wisconsin logistics company of neglecting to report demographic information about their employees for several years.
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June 07, 2024
A former Thomson Reuters data scientist says he was fired after complaining about an allegedly racially hostile work environment toward white people, including the removal of his posts criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement from a company message board.
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June 07, 2024
John Deere has agreed to pay $1.1 million to the U.S. Department of Labor to shutter an investigation alleging the agricultural manufacturing company declined to employ nearly 300 Black and Hispanic workers through systemic hiring discrimination, the agency announced.
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June 07, 2024
In finding Friday that an order for several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" should be permanently placed on hold while an appeal of a flight attendant's Title VII trial win is pending, the Fifth Circuit said the district court had likely exceeded "the scope of the court's civil-contempt authority."
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June 07, 2024
K&L Gates partner and former Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs director Craig Leen told Law360 in an exclusive interview that conservatives and liberals actually hold similar views on workplace diversity, equity and inclusion that are getting lost in a fog of politics.
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June 07, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit backed a Georgia motorcycle dealership's defeat of a former employee's suit alleging he was fired because he's Black, finding Friday he failed to connect a white supervisor's alleged racial animus with the Black dealership owner's decision to let him go.
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June 07, 2024
Cozen O'Connor brought on a veteran employment lawyer from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC in Boston, who comes with experience working in the public sector that he said allows him to help companies navigate any type of employment suit that comes their way.
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June 07, 2024
A workforce development company will pay $125,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired an employee for taking time off to treat medical conditions that arose during her high-risk pregnancy, according to a New Mexico federal court filing.
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June 07, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel breathed new life Friday into a private Christian university's lawsuit accusing Washington state's attorney general of improperly investigating its anti-LGBTQ+ hiring practices, finding the possibility of potential future enforcement gives the school standing to sue.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 06, 2024
A former Telemundo advertising executive urged an Eleventh Circuit panel Thursday to reverse a lower court's ruling to dismiss her sexual harassment lawsuit against the company, saying she sufficiently alleged a hostile work environment after reporting sexual harassment by her supervisors.
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June 06, 2024
PNC National Bank has reached an agreement to end a former employee's racial discrimination suit in a federal court in Pittsburgh, the parties said Wednesday.
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June 06, 2024
A pharmacy recruited workers who have hemophilia or family members with the condition and pressured them to let the company take over their prescriptions and switch to medications that would benefit the pharmacy financially, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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June 06, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit this week blocked a venture capital fund's grant program for Black women entrepreneurs, a ruling that experts say will only embolden opponents of workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, and should serve as the latest warning to employers to fine-tune their inclusion initiatives. Here, Law360 looks at three observations discrimination lawyers had after Monday's ruling.
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June 06, 2024
A Georgia federal jury awarded a Black tech company worker $535,000 in damages after finding he was fired in retaliation for complaining that his supervisor discriminated against him and that he was denied a raise because of his race.
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June 06, 2024
A Florida-based Navy information technology worker urged the Eleventh Circuit in a hearing Thursday to reverse a lower court's decision to toss his discrimination lawsuit, saying he was passed over for promotion because he was Hispanic and older than other candidates despite being the best qualified.
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June 06, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Louisiana federal court to reject Catholic institutions' attempt to block recently finalized Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, arguing the religious organizations' concerns about abortion accommodations rely on a series of speculative uncertainties.
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June 06, 2024
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at Whole Foods is protected under federal labor law, a group of workers argued to the National Labor Relations Board, saying employees wore BLM masks and attire on the job to push the company to confront racial bias in the workplace.
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June 06, 2024
The general manager of the Harlem Globetrotters declined to renew a female player's contract after she rejected his romantic advances, and covered up the scheme by blaming the nonrenewal on her inability to learn a basketball maneuver, according to a Georgia federal court suit.
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June 06, 2024
A Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP partner has been added as a defendant in a racial discrimination lawsuit a former Black associate filed, who now claims the partner, a formerly supportive mentor, made the decision to fire her after she complained about an email the associate described as racist.