Alabama Beverage Firm Pays $800K to Settle Racial Discrimination Claims June 7, 2021 A beverage distributor that operates across Alabama and played a role in the state’s craft beer craze agreed to pay...
Four Ex-Employees Seek Class Action Status for Gender Pay Claims Against Google July 23, 2020 By Malathi Nayak Four female former employees of Alphabet Inc.’s Google are trying to persuade a state court to let them represent more...
Next LGBT Legal Battle for Supreme Court Will Be Religious Exemptions: Analysis June 16, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley and Jan Wolfe The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBT rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over...
Facing Bias Claims, Facebook Will Revamp Its Platform for Housing, Jobs, Credit Ads March 20, 2019 By Katie Paul Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and...
Iowa Exhausts Appeals in Lawsuit over Worker Injury; Costs Could Top $1M December 1, 2017 By Barbara Rodriguez Iowa has exhausted its challenges to a lawsuit filed by a former state employee who said an agency fired him...
Trump Appointees Expected to Reorient Equal Employment Commission October 10, 2017 By Josh Eidelson The federal agency tasked with combating workplace discrimination is about to get a Republican majority for the first time in...
What Are Chances a U.S Business Will Face an Employee Lawsuit? October 28, 2015 By Andrew G. Simpson U.S.-based small and medium sized businesses face an almost 12 percent chance that they it will be hit with an...
EEOC Suits Against Employers Allege Transgender Bias September 30, 2014 By Mica Rosenberg A funeral home and an eye clinic that fired employees who had changed their sex from male to female were...
Judges Weigh HIV-Positive Man’s Job Bias Claim Against Atlanta Police January 27, 2012 By Greg Bluestein A panel of federal judges appeared skeptical Wednesday of the Atlanta police department’s decision to reject a job application from...
Feds Sue Texas Firm for Firing 600-Pound Employee September 29, 2011 The federal government has filed suit against BAE Systems alleging the company has violated disability laws by firing a morbidly...