Umpire Hernandez Loses Again in Lawsuit Versus MLB August 16, 2023 By Ronald Blum Umpire Ángel Hernández lost again in his racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball when a federal appeals court refused...
Supreme Court to Consider Scope of Workplace Bias Law July 3, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether workers can bring discrimination lawsuits based on unwanted workplace transfers...
Oil-Field Lawsuit Offers Rare Insight Into Harassment Complaints June 28, 2023 By David Wethe A lawsuit set for trial in July against the world’s largest provider of drilling services will offer rare public testimony...
Lawsuit Claiming Racism at Tesla Draws Almost 240 Black Workers Saying ‘Me Too’ June 6, 2023 By Malathi Nayak A Black former assembly line staffer at Tesla Inc. is moving to add hundreds of other workers to his 2017...
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...