Wells Fargo Seeks to Settle ‘Banking While Black’ Mortgage Case June 5, 2023 By Joel Rosenblatt Wells Fargo & Co. is pursuing private mediation to settle claims of widespread discrimination against Black homeowners by denying them...
EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias May 26, 2023 By Matt O'Brien The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that...
Twitter Beats Two Lawsuits Stemming From Mass Layoffs, for Now May 9, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner A California federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action accusing Twitter Inc of targeting female employees for layoffs...
Families Displaced from California Neighborhood Seeking $2B April 19, 2023 By Sophie Austin As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm...
Jury Awards $3.2M to Ex-Tesla Worker in California for Racial Abuse Suit April 6, 2023 By Michael Liedtke A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.2 million in damages to a Black former worker at a Tesla factory in...
Groups Charge Alabama Officials with Discrimination in Wastewater Funds Allocation March 10, 2023 Environmental organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama, accusing the state of discriminating against minority communities in how...
EEOC Sues Exxon for Discrimination After Nooses Found at Plant March 3, 2023 Exxon Mobil Corp. was sued for racial discrimination by a U.S. federal agency on Thursday, with charges alleging that the...
Twitter Asks Judge to Toss Out Proposed Sex Bias Class Action January 30, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner Twitter Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss out a proposed class action claiming the company targeted female employees...
Judge Dismisses Whole Foods Workers’ Lawsuit Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Masks January 24, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by three former Whole Foods employees who said they were illegally fired...
Lawsuit Against State Farm Alleges Racial Discrimination in Claims Handling December 16, 2022 By Chad Hemenway State Farm’s claims handling process is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging disparities between the insurer’s treatment of claims...