The EEOC filed suit against Exel Inc., doing business as DHL Supply Chain (USA), alleging the logistics company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to accommodate a temporary employee's sickle cell disorder and then discharging her.
A federal consent decree resolves EEOC claims that the Santa Clara-based tech consulting firm unlawfully screened out an older, Indian-descent sales director candidate in favor of "diverse" — meaning non-Indian — alternatives.
The EEOC filed suit against a trucking company for allegedly forcing a Christian driver to choose between his faith and his job by refusing to accommodate his need to attend Sunday church services.
A waste management company allegedly told a female applicant that female drivers had not worked out in the past and that hiring her would require building a locker room — then rejected her in favor of a less-qualified man, according to the EEOC.
The EEOC announced a $300,000 settlement with specialty tire and wheel manufacturer The Carlstar Group after suing the company, alleging it fired employees who were lawfully taking prescription narcotics and opioids to treat disabilities.
The EEOC announced a consent decree requiring PepsiCo to pay $270,000 and overhaul its software accessibility practices to resolve allegations that the company fired a blind employee rather than accommodate his disability.
FedEx agreed to pay $280,000 and provide additional relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Baldwin County Board of Education after concluding that a Black school-district employee failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact on her Title VII disparate-treatment, demotion...
A federal appeals court ruled that a physician's nonrenewal of contract can constitute False Claims Act retaliation even when the employer had full discretion over renewal.
A Utah federal judge denied approval of a $255,000 FLSA collective-action settlement, holding that the proposed procedure — which would have workers opt in only after final court approval — rendered the collective action moot before it ever formed.
A federal judge in Puerto Rico ruled that a fired utility worker failed to show his dismissal was driven by his refusal to participate in pro-New Progressive Party activities, granting summary judgment to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and two...
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice all three discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a tenured professor who lost her administrative directorship after a graduate student's plagiarized dissertation went unreported.
Four Black women who lost their assistant principal positions in a Harford County, Maryland school district reduction-in-force could not show the process was discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit held.
Plaintiffs Elizabeth Cruz and Hilarino Aparicio allege that San Diego police officers killed Imanol Aparicio by continuing to shoot him after he was incapacitated, a result they attribute to the department’s “combat shooting” policy.
A federal judge denied motions to dismiss a complaint accusing National Health Corporation and affiliated individuals of running what plaintiffs describe as a human-trafficking and forced-labor scheme targeting registered nurses recruited from the Philippines.
A federal judge in North Carolina held that a hotel owner plausibly qualifies as an employer under Title VII, the ADA, and the FMLA — even though a separate management company handled day-to-day HR — because the owner allegedly took control and made the...
A federal judge held that a Black probationary faculty member's Title VII claims against Lincoln Land Community College plausibly allege race discrimination and retaliation, but dismissed the First Amended Complaint without prejudice to allow the plaintiff...
A Northern District of Mississippi ruling certifies an FLSA collective of yard operations workers and applies the Fifth Circuit's post-Lusardi framework requiring rigorous similarly-situated scrutiny from the outset — not conditional certification with a...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia refused to dismiss a Muslim Afghan American store manager's claims that Aldi fired him after he reported theft by a colleague and repeatedly denied him his approved Friday prayer accommodation.