The EEOC's blitz of lawsuits at the end of its fiscal year included dozens of cases accusing employers of fostering environments full of harassment, highlighting an age-old priority for the commission that still catches employers flat-footed and prompts the agency to send stern warnings through its litigation docket, experts say. Here, Law360 looks at four things to know about the EEOC's latest anti-harassment enforcement push.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review a discrimination lawsuit by a former Ohio Department of Youth Services worker claiming she was denied a promotion and then demoted for being heterosexual while LGBTQ candidates were advanced.
The Second Circuit reinstated Thursday a former principal's suit claiming the New York City Department of Education hit her with a bogus investigation after she complained about racial bias, ruling the lower court was wrong to find a carveout for Title VI retaliation claims killed her case.
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The EEOC's blitz of lawsuits at the end of its fiscal year included dozens of cases accusing employers of fostering environments full of harassment, highlighting an age-old priority for the commission that still catches employers flat-footed and prompts the agency to send stern warnings through its litigation docket, experts say. Here, Law360 looks at four things to know about the EEOC's latest anti-harassment enforcement push.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review a discrimination lawsuit by a former Ohio Department of Youth Services worker claiming she was denied a promotion and then demoted for being heterosexual while LGBTQ candidates were advanced.
The Second Circuit reinstated Thursday a former principal's suit claiming the New York City Department of Education hit her with a bogus investigation after she complained about racial bias, ruling the lower court was wrong to find a carveout for Title VI retaliation claims killed her case.
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October 04, 2024
A California federal jury found Friday that Cognizant Technologies engaged in a "pattern or practice" of intentional discrimination against a class of non-South Asian and non-Indian employees who were terminated, setting the stage for a second phase that will determine damages against the IT giant.
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October 04, 2024
A San Francisco federal judge said Friday that a former X Corp. engineer's lawsuit claiming Elon Musk laid off more women than men after acquiring the company belonged with a similar case the worker filed in San Jose federal court — but chided both sides, saying "nobody's being terribly reasonable."
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October 04, 2024
A cancer research professor has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Temple University Health System's Fox Chase Cancer Center, claiming in Pennsylvania federal court it failed to act on her complaints of being harassed by the eventual director, who she said went on to influence "numerous decisions" that hurt her career.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a final rule Friday tweaking an acquisition regulation after nearly 30 years since a previous overhaul, but the rule doesn't include a proposal that would have required federal contractors to certify compliance with federal and state labor laws.
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October 04, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential final approval of a deal to resolve a class action alleging O'Reilly Auto Enterprises failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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October 04, 2024
A healthcare diagnostics company has agreed to pay nearly $60,000 to the U.S. Department of Labor to end an agency probe over concerns that a New Jersey manufacturing facility undercompensated female employees compared to their male colleagues.
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October 04, 2024
A New York bakery will pay $30,000 to end a proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay workers full and timely wages and fired an employee for taking time off to recover from diagnosed vertigo, according to court papers filed Friday.
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October 04, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider whether to toss a former ConEd attorney's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her age and gender.
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October 04, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to toss a Black car salesman's suit claiming he was forced to resign from a BMW dealership after it sabotaged his success because of his disability and race, ruling he put forward enough proof showing bias may have been at play.
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October 04, 2024
A real estate company has agreed to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it gave a Black manager twice as much work as a white colleague and ultimately fired him because he was "lazy," according to a filing in Georgia federal court.
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October 04, 2024
A dispensary in Los Angeles failed to fairly compensate workers and allowed its CEO to sexually harass a former employee, she told a California state court.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to wade into an age discrimination lawsuit from a former Halliburton employee who said his case was wrongly shut down when the Tenth Circuit ruled a trial court lacked the power to reopen it following arbitration.
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October 04, 2024
Greenberg Traurig LLP is boosting its West Coast team, bringing in WeWork's former global head of employment law as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.
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October 03, 2024
Cognizant Technologies rested its defense Thursday of class action claims that it is biased toward Indian workers after a company executive testified that the number of employee transfers from India to the U.S. has steadily decreased since 2014, bringing to a close live testimony in the racially charged retrial.
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October 03, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit said Thursday it would not reconsider a decision that allowed a Florida law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricts it for adults to take effect.
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October 03, 2024
One attorney hasn't lost a single U.S. Supreme Court case she's argued, or even a single justice's vote. One attorney is perhaps "the preeminent SCOTUS advocate." And one may soon become U.S. solicitor general, despite acknowledging there are "judges out there who don't like me." All three are among a dozen lawyers in the vanguard of the Supreme Court bar's next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar's current icons.
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October 03, 2024
Country music star Garth Brooks' former hair and makeup stylist sued him in California state court on Thursday, claiming he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room while preparing for a Recording Academy event in 2019.
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October 03, 2024
An Oklahoma federal judge on Thursday teed up for trial a former campus police officer's claims alleging a school district refused to rehire him because he was 65 and had lodged complaints about a superior, but threw out his allegation that he was deprived of his due process rights.
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October 03, 2024
A former Dollar Tree store manager failed to support her claims that she faced retaliation over her Family and Medical Leave Act request to take time off to care for her disabled son due to the coronavirus pandemic, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, handing a partial win to the retailer.
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October 03, 2024
The Fourth Circuit has revived part of a discrimination suit by a Black former chief grants management officer with the National Institutes of Health, reasoning in a published opinion that the lower court failed to consider her retaliation claim solely in the context of the complaint's allegations.
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October 03, 2024
A Delaware state agency defeated a former employee's lawsuit alleging she faced increased scrutiny from supervisors because of her service dog and was terminated while on medical leave, with a federal judge ruling Thursday that the department is immune from her federal bias claims.
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October 03, 2024
Jones Day will have to defend its family leave policy at trial against claims from married ex-associates who say it is discriminatory and violates District of Columbia law, a D.C. federal judge said Thursday in concluding such bias allegations were a close call.
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October 03, 2024
The Maryland Department of State Police has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice suit claiming it used physical fitness and written tests to screen out Black and female applicants for entry-level trooper positions.
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October 03, 2024
A Washington-based construction services company pulled a 67-year-old assembler's job placement because of a manager's incorrect assumption about his physical capabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a complaint filed in federal court.
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October 03, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Colorado marijuana dispensary, alleging that it fired a budtender for memory issues stemming from a mini stroke when she was nine years old, while privately calling her a "fruitcake."