Almost All Top US Companies Had Board Diversity Rules. Now Most Are Gone August 14, 2026 By Jeff Green and Daniela Sirtori Three years ago, nearly every major US company explicitly considered diversity when choosing new directors. Now, most don’t. In all,...
OpenAI Pays $3.2 Million in Probe Over Hiring Foreign Workers August 10, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner OpenAI and a subsidiary will pay $3.2 million to settle U.S. government claims that they favored foreign workers with temporary...
Lawsuit Says EEOC Has Halted All Federal-Sector Class Complaints August 4, 2026 By Alexandra Olson A labor union and two female prison employees filed a lawsuit late last month accusing a U.S. civil rights agency...
Texas Hair Styling College Settles Discrimination Lawsuit August 3, 2026 Dallas Barber and Stylist College, Inc., which operates multiple barber and hair styling locations and instructional campuses in the Dallas...
EEOC Moves to End Employer Reporting of Worker Race, Sex Data August 3, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination moved to scrap a requirement that employers annually submit data on...
Meta Employees’ Lawsuit Shows That if AI Fires You, Proving it Is the Hard Part July 23, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner A novel lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms relied on discriminatory AI tools to select employees for layoffs highlights the problems...
Judge Won’t Block Meta From Laying Off Workers Who Filed AI Discrimination Suit July 20, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner A U.S. judge on July 17 rejected a bid by 26 employees of Meta Platforms to block the tech giant...
Citi Exec Alleges She Was Fired for Raising Trump-Related Compliance Issues: FT June 17, 2026 By Jack Queen and Tatiana Bautzer A former Citigroup executive alleged in a lawsuit that the bank fired her in retaliation for identifying regulatory and compliance...
Musk’s xAI Accused of Illegally Firing Engineer Who Raised Safety Concerns June 15, 2026 By Daniel Wiessner A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI who now heads a think tank focused on AI safety filed a lawsuit...
USDOT Rescinds ‘Disparate Impact’ Civil Rights Regulation June 11, 2026 By David Shepardson The U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday it is rescinding part of its long-standing civil rights regulations that prohibit conduct that...