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June 06, 2025
Pay transparency laws are making an impact on pay disparities but policymakers should be careful to not make compliance too burdensome, says employment attorney Kelly Cardin. Here, Law360 speaks with Cardin about how pay transparency will continue to evolve.
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June 06, 2025
The Ninth Circuit declined to upend an order applying the federal rate instead of a higher Washington state rate when calculating prejudgment interest that a federal jury awarded to a worker in his lawsuit accusing a manufacturer of firing him for taking leave, saying his federal claim guided his litigation strategy.
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June 06, 2025
Counsel representing two female teachers should receive nearly $218,000 in costs following a jury trial in which the workers were awarded $165,000 over claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, the teachers told a federal court.
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June 06, 2025
Nearly 50 civil and workers' groups are urging the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to hold confirmation hearings for Andrea Lucas and Brittany Panuccio, acting chair and commissioner nominee, respectively, for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to further scrutinize their records.
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June 06, 2025
The former CEO of a defense industry supplier has settled his lawsuit alleging he was duped into taking the job by a North Carolina private equity firm and then fired for refusing to go along with fibs about its financial future to a major client, according to a notice filed Friday.
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June 06, 2025
An Eighth Circuit panel will mull how federal labor law applies to workers' support for social causes Wednesday as it hears Home Depot's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that it illegally forced out a worker who wrote "BLM" on their apron. Here, Law360 breaks down what to expect from the case.
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June 06, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding the extent to which federal labor law preempts employment law claims, in a case involving UPS. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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June 06, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an attempt from a former dean at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University to revive his suit claiming he was demoted in retaliation for advocating against widespread discrimination against students and faculty. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 06, 2025
A Black job applicant wants to take over a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionsuit accusing convenience store chain Sheetz of using a biased policy to screen out workers with criminal histories, as the EEOC seeks to exit the case because of a presidential order disavowing the disparate impact theory.
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June 05, 2025
Playboy's ousted chief creative officer filed a retaliation suit against the company in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday alleging he was illegally terminated after speaking up about sexual harassment, financial improprieties and a minor uploading explicit images of herself to a public company website.
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June 05, 2025
A group of environmental and food sustainability nonprofits hit the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a lawsuit in D.C. federal court Thursday, accusing the Trump administration of unconstitutionally exceeding its authority by abruptly rescinding nearly 600 grants via "minimally edited form letters" that had errors and lacked detailed explanations.
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June 05, 2025
More than a dozen Republican attorneys general challenging a Biden-era rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can't keep the rule on the books just because the new administration is unlikely to enforce it.
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June 05, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday said a religious television network and its owner must face a lawsuit alleging they interfered with a Black pastor's on-air and earning opportunities, saying the pastor shared enough evidence to support his claim that he was discriminated against because of his race.
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June 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday reviving a straight woman's workplace discrimination suit doesn't mark a huge precedent shift, but along with other recent changes in the employment law arena, it may help set the stage for a surge in bias cases from so-called majority groups, experts say.
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June 05, 2025
A former equity, inclusion and belonging manager for Washington state's King County, home to Seattle, has launched a lawsuit contending she was blocked from addressing employee concerns about bias in the workplace, mistreated by white male colleagues, and ultimately pushed out amid a "challenging culture of silence and inaction."
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June 05, 2025
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday allowed a transgender former hog-farm worker to carry on a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming she was sexually harassed on the job, after the agency dropped the case because it conflicted with a presidential executive order.
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June 05, 2025
A former Virginia city assistant attorney's Family and Medical Leave Act suit against the chief city prosecutor will head to trial, a federal judge said Thursday, ruling that there is an open question over whether firing the attorney was a pretext to not grant a leave request.
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June 05, 2025
The owners of a defunct Colorado bar will pay $100,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging one of them made inappropriate sexual comments to employees, groped women and disciplined those who complained, according to a filing in federal court.
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June 05, 2025
The Fourth Circuit refused to reopen a former Lynchburg, Virginia, fire captain's suit alleging he was unconstitutionally fired for social media posts that citizens called transphobic and racist, ruling Thursday that he failed to show why the city should be held liable.
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June 05, 2025
SAG-AFTRA members urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to revive their claims that the union betrayed them by allowing studios to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates against members with medical and religious objections, arguing that the state claims aren't preempted and "not everything that involves these guilds is a federal matter."
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June 05, 2025
A Court of Federal Claims judge denied a former U.S. Marine Corps air traffic control officer's bid for an injunction as he challenges his discharge for allegedly using a prohibited vape, saying the court lacks the power to prevent the government from releasing "disparaging" information.
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June 05, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accused car manufacturing giant FCA US of refusing to let a Jewish employee take holy days off and then eventually firing him after he didn't show up to work on Passover, according to a suit filed Thursday in Michigan federal court.
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June 05, 2025
Walgreens is urging an Illinois federal court to throw out a suit from an employee alleging it illegally imposes a tobacco surcharge on employees in its healthcare program, saying the program complies with federal regulations, and the employee has no standing because she declined to participate in the program.
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June 05, 2025
A D.C. federal judge allowed a city attorney's discrimination and retaliation lawsuit to proceed to discovery Thursday, rejecting the D.C. government's motion to toss the claims that a city administrative law judge discriminated against Black women and paid the plaintiff attorney less than her male peers.
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June 05, 2025
Foley & Lardner LLP urged an Illinois federal judge to dismiss a bias suit by a former summer associate, arguing her job offer was rescinded not due to her Arab Muslim identity but because her public comments on Hamas' 2023 attack on Israel "violated the firm's core values" and showed "incredibly poor judgment."