The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its first guidance on workplace harassment since 1999, winning plaudits from lawyers who commended the bias watchdog's thoroughness, though the agency noted that some hotly contested issues may need to be handled case by case. Here are five takeaways from the long-awaited guidance.
This month, the Second Circuit will review a bias case over paternity leave, the Eighth Circuit will tackle back-to-back legal battles over allegedly false testimony and the bounds of a federal law curbing mandatory arbitration and the Seventh Circuit will consider whether an unconscious bias training was unlawful. Here's a look at four oral argument sessions in May that employment discrimination attorneys may want to add to their calendars.
An Indiana federal court Tuesday dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names only would be asking too much under a standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its first guidance on workplace harassment since 1999, winning plaudits from lawyers who commended the bias watchdog's thoroughness, though the agency noted that some hotly contested issues may need to be handled case by case. Here are five takeaways from the long-awaited guidance.
This month, the Second Circuit will review a bias case over paternity leave, the Eighth Circuit will tackle back-to-back legal battles over allegedly false testimony and the bounds of a federal law curbing mandatory arbitration and the Seventh Circuit will consider whether an unconscious bias training was unlawful. Here's a look at four oral argument sessions in May that employment discrimination attorneys may want to add to their calendars.
An Indiana federal court Tuesday dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names only would be asking too much under a standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
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May 02, 2024
A former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner and a solo practitioner have joined forces to open an employment law firm in Atlanta, planning to handle plaintiff's employment litigation and trade secret and non-compete matters while capitalizing on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
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May 02, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to throw out a lawsuit a former securities sales representative lodged against a firm accusing it of firing him and replacing him with two younger workers, saying he put forward enough detail to keep his suit afloat.
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May 02, 2024
A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed against litigation firm Moses & Singer LLP by a former partner who accused it of wrongfully firing her after she requested workplace accommodations for her pregnancy, saying the parties have reached "a settlement in principle."
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May 02, 2024
North Carolina Democrats have proposed broad legislation to bolster protections for employees in the Tar Heel State — from abolishing at-will employment to repealing the ban on collective bargaining for public employees and shoring up safeguards for contract workers.
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May 02, 2024
Vermont will block employers from discriminating against workers because of their hair type and texture under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Phil Scott, joining dozens of states and municipalities that have enacted similar laws in recent years.
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May 02, 2024
A delivery contractor illegally fired an employee for having an autoimmune disease flare-up while transporting packages in an unheated truck, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a Georgia federal court suit.
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May 02, 2024
The Atlanta Braves denied that it refused to hire a deaf man for a top job at the organization because of his disability and said a lawsuit against the team was filed too late to be valid, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.
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May 02, 2024
The Fifth Circuit declined to reinstate a doctor's lawsuit against a staffing firm, saying he couldn't show he wasn't selected for a job due to his age and because the company disparaged his name and not because he didn't have the right experience.
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May 01, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge won't yet allow the attorneys representing Donald Trump's campaign to withdraw from a pregnancy retaliation suit brought by a former campaign aide over what they called an "irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship," but on Wednesday set a conference to review the request behind closed doors.
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May 01, 2024
Attorneys representing transgender clients in Florida and Alabama have urged the Eleventh Circuit to heed a recent Fourth Circuit ruling striking down bans on state-funded coverage for gender-affirming medical care, saying the court ruled that the state policies violate federal law because their exclusions were based on gender identity and sex.
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May 01, 2024
Two bipartisan senators once again introduced legislation Wednesday that would ban discrimination targeting hairstyles commonly associated with African heritage.
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May 01, 2024
A New York judge said Wednesday that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will be retried sometime after September, following last week's decision by the state's highest court to overturn his rape conviction due to the admission of overly broad evidence at trial.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania appeals court scrapped the reinstatement Wednesday of a Kutztown University police officer who was fired for sharing racist and offensive posts on his personal Facebook page, ruling that the arbitrator who gave him his job back improperly ignored anti-bias laws.
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May 01, 2024
A senior living facility operator has agreed to settle allegations that it unlawfully discriminated against a worker in the U.S. on asylum by demanding that the worker present specific documents to prove that she could work, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
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May 01, 2024
The Atlanta Police Department abruptly terminated a Muslim police officer recruit after he complained to management that fellow recruits had used profanity to mock his religion, scratched his car and stolen his uniform, a new lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court said.
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May 01, 2024
South Carolina-based attorney and law firm founder Billy R. Oswald has reached an agreement with a former employee to dismiss claims alleging he solicited his employees for sex.
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May 01, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su defended her U.S. Department of Labor role and recent agency rules at a U.S. House committee hearing on Wednesday from Republicans who accused her of serving through a "loophole" and who questioned the legality of actions under her leadership.
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May 01, 2024
A financial services company laid off a human resources worker after she took federal medical leave and in retaliation for her repeated complaints about pay disparities between herself and younger, male employees, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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May 01, 2024
A Black female insurance and construction law attorney sued Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP and its three name partners Tuesday in New York federal court, alleging she was subjected to a "despicable campaign" of harassment for more than a decade.
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May 01, 2024
Boston Scientific Corp. defeated a former maintenance worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's Black, with a Minnesota federal judge finding that the worker's insubordination during a misconduct investigation cost him his job rather than discrimination.
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May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district can't snag a win on claims that it paid women teachers less than their male colleagues because it is clear that while the teachers performed comparable work, the pay was different, the women told a federal court.
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May 01, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined to give an Illinois city diversity officer a second chance at her sex bias suit that claimed she was terminated after complaining that male co-workers were paid more for lighter workloads, ruling she didn't adequately back up her allegations.
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May 01, 2024
A California federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from a former Tesla manager alleging he was fired because he was nearing 60 years old and took medical leave to treat his diabetes, saying an arbitration agreement he signed should be enforced.
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April 30, 2024
The former global head of product development at medical manufacturer Olympus Corp. said he was fired earlier this year after he reported multiple compliance concerns regarding the company's practices and related to nearly 100 products, according to a suit filed Monday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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April 30, 2024
A former Reed Smith LLP paralegal hasn't shown that the firm's flagging of her work performance issues and her eventual termination stemmed from age and race discrimination, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday, handing the law firm a final win in the nearly 9-year-old litigation.