December 27, 2024
An Asia equity sales trader who was fired from Citigroup Inc. in 2019 won an employment suit against the US bank, Hong Kong’s Labour Tribunal ruled on Monday. Citigroup failed to justify its “summary dismissal” of former employee Cindy Lui, …
November 16, 2023
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean- Michel Basquiat paintings filed counterclaims Tuesday against the museum, …
July 20, 2020
Whole Foods Market was sued on Monday by employees who accused the upscale grocery chain of punishing workers who wear “Black Lives Matter” face masks on the job. The 14 plaintiffs in the proposed nationwide class action accused Whole Foods, …
February 1, 2016
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the firings of sheriff’s deputies who declined to donate to their boss’s political campaign, ruling Jan. 26 that they aren’t covered by a state law protecting county workers from political coercion. The justices agreed …
December 8, 2015
A trio of lawsuits is challenging the long-standing ability of North Carolina sheriffs to fire their deputies at will – a practice critics say allows some to maintain personal political fiefdoms where paychecks and patronage are connected. North Carolina’s Supreme …
August 18, 2014
A former Oklahoma assistant attorney general has filed a wrongful termination claim against the state. Ted Rossier filed the $175,000 claim with the State Office of Risk Management, The Oklahoman reported. He is seeking a statement “absolving me of any …