Executive orders that President Donald Trump said are aimed at combating anti-Christian and antisemitic bias could push religious discrimination claims toward the top of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's list of enforcement priorities, experts say.
An Illinois federal jury awarded $2.75 million in damages to a Black master sergeant for the Illinois State Police after finding he was hit with a negative performance review, placed on an employee improvement plan, reprimanded and suspended for complaining of race discrimination.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's acting chair said a recent leadership shakeup at the agency hasn't impeded its routine functions, but employment attorneys say they've seen a general slowdown in EEOC investigations and a clear deprioritization of LGBTQ+ discrimination matters.
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Executive orders that President Donald Trump said are aimed at combating anti-Christian and antisemitic bias could push religious discrimination claims toward the top of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's list of enforcement priorities, experts say.
An Illinois federal jury awarded $2.75 million in damages to a Black master sergeant for the Illinois State Police after finding he was hit with a negative performance review, placed on an employee improvement plan, reprimanded and suspended for complaining of race discrimination.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's acting chair said a recent leadership shakeup at the agency hasn't impeded its routine functions, but employment attorneys say they've seen a general slowdown in EEOC investigations and a clear deprioritization of LGBTQ+ discrimination matters.
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February 17, 2025
A Washington, D.C. federal judge again declined to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing three federal agencies' data, saying worker and consumer advocates haven't shown that the department's agents don't belong.
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February 14, 2025
The Center for Investigative Reporting told the Ninth Circuit on Friday that federal contractors' workforce demographic reports were not protected by a commercial data exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, as there was no "intimate information" in those reports.
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February 14, 2025
California's civil rights watchdog recently pitched changes to proposed rules that would minimize artificial intelligence bias in the workplace, seemingly watering down enforcement options and demonstrating the difficulty of regulating such rapidly evolving technology, experts said. Here's a look at the suggested changes and what's ahead.
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February 14, 2025
An anonymous woman dropped her New York federal court lawsuit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of raping a teenager together, claims that launched a bitter ethics feud between personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee and Jay-Z's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
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February 14, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must face discrimination and retaliation claims by a Black female supervisor who alleged she was removed from her position after filing workplace complaints, after a D.C. federal judge on Thursday ruled the plaintiff identified other similarly situated managers who remained in their jobs despite documented misconduct.
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February 14, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge shut down a biracial UPS worker's bias suit claiming he was fired for sharing memes at work while a white colleague got to keep his job after being faulted for the same behavior, ruling that federal labor law blocks his claims from court.
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February 14, 2025
A Florida federal court partially rejected on Friday a magistrate judge's dismissal recommendations in a dispute between the city of Miami and an insurer over coverage for underlying lawsuits that allege political retaliation, allowing the parties to litigate the insurer's potential duty to defend.
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February 14, 2025
Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce demanded that the U.S. Department of Labor provide details about why certain worker safety documents were removed from the federal government's website, saying some information seems to have been arbitrarily removed because it referenced "diversity" or "gender."
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February 14, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge said he plans to rule "promptly" on a request by worker and consumer advocates to stop the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing three federal agencies' data but couldn't say when following a wide-ranging hearing on the bid.
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February 14, 2025
A Maryland federal court was right to reject claims by a Vietnam-born Internal Revenue Service employee who said she was discriminated against when managers disciplined her for insubordination, the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday, saying she failed to prove other employees were treated differently.
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February 14, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the final approval of a $4 million deal in a wage and hour class action involving transportation company CRST. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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February 14, 2025
The Seventh Circuit refused to reopen a Black former AbbVie Inc. administrative assistant's suit alleging she was fired for reporting that a colleague used racial slurs and invaded her privacy, ruling the worker had filed her suit months too late.
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February 14, 2025
This week the Second Circuit is to consider whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a former senior vice president at a global investment firm claiming it discriminated against him due to his race and religion and gave him false poor performance reviews before firing him.
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February 14, 2025
A resort in Guam gave better wages and working conditions to Japanese workers over those of a different national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday in an employment discrimination suit in federal court.
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February 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice said it will appeal to the Ninth Circuit after a federal judge tossed its suit accusing the state of Nevada and its public employees retirement system of overcharging service members for pension credits.
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February 13, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense has urged a D.C. federal judge to deny a preliminary injunction in a challenge to an executive order effectively barring transgender troops from serving in the military, saying the motion is premature and unlikely to succeed.
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February 13, 2025
Washington's highest court grilled attorneys on both sides of a debate over state pay transparency law on Thursday, with some justices suggesting the employer's stance put too much onus on workers while another expressed doubt the protections should extend to people who apply for jobs they have no chance to get.
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February 13, 2025
A coalition of 16 Democratic state attorneys general told companies Thursday not to immediately scrap programs meant to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within their organizations, saying these initiatives are largely legal despite threats from President Donald Trump's administration.
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February 13, 2025
A D.C. federal judge extended his temporary restraining order barring USAID from placing thousands of employees on administrative leave for another week on Thursday, saying he needed more time to rule on the plaintiff employees unions' preliminary injunction request to stop the agency's overhaul while the case proceeds.
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February 13, 2025
The Fourth Circuit declined Thursday to revive a suit from a sales manager who claimed he was unlawfully fired from a financial services company after complaining about age bias, rejecting his argument that the lower court overlooked retaliatory moves by the business.
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February 13, 2025
A transgender woman participating in an Old Dominion employee health plan agreed to drop her suit alleging she was wrongly denied gender-affirming care coverage for facial hair removal after a Washington federal judge dismissed the case in January, citing a settlement of the dispute.
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February 13, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss its suit claiming a hotel operator unlawfully fired a nonbinary worker, pointing to President Donald Trump's executive order declaring that the government recognizes only two sexes.
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February 13, 2025
A live event audiovisual equipment provider blacklisted a female lighting technician because she complained that a transgender colleague had repeatedly sexually harassed her in the women's bathroom during a Trans-Siberian Orchestra tour, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court.
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February 13, 2025
The director of a Georgia plastics manufacturing plant has been accused of offering to pay the attorney representing a brother and sister in a federal discrimination lawsuit in exchange for a quick settlement, with the siblings claiming the defendant's "assertions are tantamount to bribery and fraud."
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February 13, 2025
A Washington federal judge awarded an Amazon worker a fraction of the $1.6 million in attorney fees he requested in his recently settled suit claiming the company blocked him from promotions due to his military service, finding the outcome of the case didn't warrant an amount that high.