Companies May Be Employers of Contract, Franchise Workers Under US Labor Rule October 30, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond A U.S. labor board on Oct. 26 issued a final rule making it easier for workers and unions to hold...
Walmart Sued by EEOC Over Test That Screened Out Disabled Workers September 14, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Wednesday that it had sued Walmart Inc over allegations it...
Executives Go Quiet on Diversity After Affirmative Action Ruling September 11, 2023 US executives drastically cut back on public discussions of workplace diversity last quarter, in the first earnings season since the...
Critics of Workplace Diversity Efforts Eye Civil War-Era Law September 1, 2023 By Riddhi Setty Several suits filed on behalf of White workers following the US Supreme Court’s decision outlawing affirmative action in higher education...
US Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have No Consistent Protection August 28, 2023 By Gabe Stern Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico...
McDonald’s, CEO Must Face Ex-Security Executive’s Race Bias Claims August 24, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner A federal judge in Chicago on Tuesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing McDonald’s Corp. of pushing out a Black...
Rail Whistleblowers Fired for Voicing Safety Concerns August 22, 2023 By Josh Funk Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge ruled a former...
Ex-Trump Administration Officials Target Corporate Diversity Efforts August 18, 2023 By Daniel Wiessner Activision Blizzard Inc and Kellogg Co have joined a growing list of major U.S. companies to face claims from a...
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...
InclusionScore CEO: Recent Events Highlight Need to Rein in Costly D&I Risk August 16, 2023 By Chad Hemenway At the end of June, James Felton Keith read the news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority rulings regarding affirmative...