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It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we’ll see in the workplace in the coming year, especially given the recent volatility we’ve experienced and expect for the foreseeable future. Despite the ever-present...more
Company Fired Laundry Technician Because It Regarded Her as Having an Impairment, Federal Agency Charged - NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A jury has returned a verdict for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on...more
Hotel Fired Manager After He Was Hospitalized for Depression, Federal Agency Charges - ST. LOUIS – Operators of an Omaha hotel violated federal law when they fired a general manager after being hospitalized for depression,...more
Company Refused to Allow Service Dog as Reasonable Accommodation, Federal Agency Charges - ST. LOUIS – Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts-and-crafts retailer, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably...more
Man Fired for Disability-Related Absences, Federal Agency Charges - CHICAGO – Grief, Inc., an international manufacturing company, and American Flange, its wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the western suburbs of...more
Health System Failed to Reasonably Accommodate Class of Workers with Disabilities, Federal Agency Charges - PHILADELPHIA – Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation doing business as Geisinger Health System,...more
Hotel Manager Sexually Harassed Female Housekeeper for Months and Then Fired Her for Complaining About It, Federal Agency Charges - OXFORD, MS – Lodging Lane Hospitality, doing business as Home2 Suites and owned and...more
Staffing Company Fired Employee with a Disability Instead of Providing Reasonable Accommodations, Federal Agency Charges - WASHINGTON- TrueBlue, Inc., a Tacoma, Washington.-based staffing company with branch offices...more
Company Fired Disabled Workers Because of Their Inability to Pass an Essential Functions Test, Federal Agency Charges - Fort Smith, Ark. –Hospital Housekeeping Services (HHS) violated federal law when it terminated...more
Preschool Provider Refused to Employ Candidate with Cerebral Palsy, Federal Agency Charges - PHILADELPHIA – The Pai Corporation, doing business as Excentia Human Services and as Excentia and S. June Smith Center...more
Food Distributor Condoned Racial Harassment and Retaliated Against African American Employee for Complaining, Federal Agency Charges - HONOLULU – Suisan Company, Limited (Suisan), a food distributor on the Big Island of...more
International Freight Company Fired Manager Because of His Cancer, Federal Agency Charges - ATLANTA – Pilot Freight Services, Inc., an international freight shipping and logistics company based in Atlanta, unlawfully fired...more
Fabens Pharmacy and 151 Coffee Took Different Approaches to COVID-19, But Both Violated the ADA, EEOC Charged - DALLAS – The EEOC filed two lawsuits in Texas courts today, alleging that a pharmacy in Fabens and a...more
Company Fired Employee Because She Was Pregnant, Federal Agency Charged - MIAMI – Presidente Supermarket No. 31, Inc., a Miami location in a chain of over 30 supermarkets in Florida, violated federal law by firing an...more
Resort Hotel Fired Seventh-day Adventist After She Refused to Work on Saturdays Due to Her Religious Beliefs, Federal Agency Charges - MIAMI – Noble House Solé, LLC, a resort hotel in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., violated...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC-initiated religious discrimination suit involving an employer’s alleged imposition of “Onionhead” religious practices, a federal district court in New York recently denied the employer’s motion...more
Hospital Unlawfully Subjected Only Physicians Over 70 to Neuropsychological and Eye Exams, Federal Agency Charges - NEW HAVEN - Yale New Haven Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, violated...more
Certified Rigger Fired Due to Epilepsy, Federal Agency Charged - SEATTLE - Bellingham, Wash.-based BLI Northwest, Inc., formerly doing business as Diamond B Constructors, Inc. and its successor, Harris Pacific Northwest,...more
Home Décor Business Fired Warehouse Employee for Taking Unpaid Leave It Forced Her to Use, Federal Agency Charges - LOUIS - Black Forest Décor, LLC violated federal law when it forced a worker with a disability at its...more
Chicago Cargo Company Tolerated Sexual Harassment of Female Employees and Fired a Male Employee for Speaking Out, Federal Agency Charged - CHICAGO - Alliance Ground International, a cargo handling company that performs...more
Antioch Store Illegally Refused to Interview Candidate Because He Is Deaf, Federal Agency Charges - SAN FRANCISCO - National retailer Target Corporation violated federal law when it failed to interview a qualified job...more
Company Failed to Promote African-American Employees to Management, Federal Agency Charged - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Car Wash Headquarters, doing business as Mister Car Wash and Mister Hotshine has agreed to pay $225,000 in...more
Two recent verdicts from California Superior Court juries have awarded former employees $6 million and $7.9 million, respectively, in compensatory damages after a finding of wrongful termination. Martinez v. Rite Aid Corp....more
The Fifth Circuit has issued another opinion in the continuing saga of Jackson State University and its past athletic director, Dr. Vivian Fuller—this one about retaliation against a witness. To refresh everyone’s memory: A...more
The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all South Carolina employers) recently decided a religious accommodation case in which a jury awarded a former employee more than half a million dollars. The Equal...more