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The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD” or “Commission”) has released its Fiscal Year 2023 (“FY23”) Annual Report, which highlights the strides the Commission has made over the last fiscal year toward...more
Los Angeles-Based Service Fired Cleaner Because She Wasn't Fluent in English, Federal Agency Charges - BALTIMORE - Blackstone Consulting Inc, which provides environmental, facilities management and other services to...more
This month’s key California employment law cases involve disability discrimination claims and procedural issues related to workers’ compensation proceedings....more
One of the many challenges for employers is that, occasionally, employees must be terminated. Unfortunately, sometimes those former employees claim to have been terminated illegally, giving rise to the risk of legal and...more
Immigration law is said to be the next major debate in both state legislatures and Congress. While that debate will focus on the rights of immigrants to gain legal status in our country, employers can anticipate many new...more
Disney continues to face legal repercussions from the company’s 2014/15 layoffs of numerous American IT workers, and the outsourcing of their functions to two Indian companies employing H-1B workers. On Monday, Dec. 12th,...more
I. DOS Announces 2018 Diversity Lottery - The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) just released its instructions for the DV-2018 Diversity Visa (DV-2018) lottery. The registration period begins on Tuesday, October 4,...more
Employer Permitted Racist Slurs and Graffiti, Then Fired Employees Who Complained - BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Buffalo provider of metal coating violated federal law when it permitted race-based harassment of black employees by...more
East San Jose Bakery Subjected Latina Clerk to Verbal Abuse, Then Punished Her for Complaining, Federal Agency Charged - SAN JOSE, Calif. - East San Jose-based Peters' Bakery will pay $40,000 to a Latina employee and...more
In what has been a string of recent favorable decisions for employers, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico recently issued another opinion, this time elaborating on the evidentiary standard for wrongful termination claims under...more
Co-Owner Harassed Hispanic Workers and Told Them Not to Speak Spanish, Federal Agency Charges - NEW YORK - Antonella's Restaurant and Pizzeria, Inc, JTA, Inc., and Grand Centro, three Italian restaurants located in...more
Federal Agency Charges Ryan's Pointe, LLC Fired Manager Because of Her Hispanic National Origin and Pregnancy - HOUSTON - Ryan's Pointe, LLC violated federal law by discharging its apartment manager because of her...more
On July 22, 2015, in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Peters’ Bakery, Case No. 13-CV-045107 (N.D. Cal. July 22, 2015), Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,...more