A federal judge granted Ocean Shores firefighter and Army reservist Travis Bearden summary judgment on his claim for 21 days of paid military leave for the 2020–21 fiscal year but denied his bid for leave through 2026, finding a factual dispute over whether...
A unanimous California Court of Appeal panel reversed summary judgment for Victor Valley Community College District, holding that a postsecondary nursing student completing required clinical rotations qualifies as an unpaid intern with standing to sue under...
The Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery and held that ERISA does not bar former fund fiduciaries from receiving advancement of legal expenses when defending state-law claims in state court. The court ruled that advancement expressly...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that Allied Services LLC, operating as Republic Services of the Ozarks, will pay $200,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging the waste management company rejected a female applicant for a...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a two-year consent decree resolving claims that Santa Clara-based HCL America rejected a 62-year-old Indian job applicant for a sales director role in favor of a younger, non-Indian candidate, with...
Rashaan Carter sued SP Plus Corporation for alleged minimum wage violations, but the parking services company moved to compel arbitration based on a checked box in Carter's onboarding paperwork. The dispute centered on whether Carter actually agreed to...
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order finding Starbucks Corporation liable for an unfair labor practice in connection with a union organizing campaign at its La Quinta, California store, holding that the Board applied...
A California federal magistrate judge has recommended remanding a disability-discrimination case to state court and awarding the plaintiff attorney's fees after concluding that snap-removal doctrine cannot establish diversity jurisdiction where the...
A federal judge in Tennessee denied BNSF Railway Company’s motion for summary judgment in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit brought by a railroad carman who reported an improperly secured train.
Jeri Vivit’s Title VII religious discrimination claim against the Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago survives a motion to dismiss, resolving a novel question about whether an employee must notify an employer of her religious beliefs before recording...
A federal judge in New Orleans dismissed a putative class action against Walmart Inc. with prejudice on a joint motion, requiring each side to bear its own costs.
The Washington Supreme Court held that public employees are entitled to up to 21 days of paid military leave under RCW 38.40.060 even if they are not scheduled to work because they are on active duty during an extended military leave of absence.
A federal judge in Tacoma denied the Postmaster General's bid to end a Title VII hostile-work-environment suit brought by a Chinese-American postmaster who alleges USPS employees and management targeted her with discriminatory complaints that led to her...
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has declined to dismiss a First Amendment retaliation claim brought by a former Penn State Board of Trustees member, leaving open a significant question about whether elected trustees are protected public employees or elected...
A federal judge in the Northern District of California granted UPS only a fraction of the $347,052.50 in attorneys' fees it sought after three female warehouse workers pursued gender and age discrimination claims that the court repeatedly found were...
The federal agency alleges Kroger's Houston-area grocery store stripped a checkout attendant of a three-year-old accommodation, then terminated her when she could not justify a leave she never sought.
A Bay St. Louis, Mississippi restaurant will pay significant monetary damages and implement policy changes after the EEOC alleged it fired a pregnant server less than a week into her job.
The federal agency charges that St. Vincent Hospital, which operates Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, violated the ADA by refusing to reassign an injured employee to a vacant receptionist role and then terminating her with a letter...
The federal agency alleges the turkey giant fired a long-term employee for accruing attendance points tied to chemotherapy absences after her leave request was never processed.
The EEOC has filed suit against BestBet Jacksonville under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, alleging the company's rigid attendance policy pushed a class of pregnant employees out of their jobs rather than accommodating their medical needs.