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Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2024

Fisher Phillips on 12/29/2023

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

Jury Returns Verdict for EEOC in ‘Regarded As’ Disability Case Against West Meade Place

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 11/4/2022

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

EEOC Sues Omaha Hospitality Group for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/29/2022

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

EEOC Sues Hobby Lobby for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/5/2022

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

EEOC Sues Manufacturing Companies for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/21/2021

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

EEOC Sues Geisinger Health and Affiliates for Disability Discrimination and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/1/2021

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

EEOC Sues Lodging Lane Hospitality for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

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

EEOC Sues TrueBlue, Inc., for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

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

Hospital Housekeeping Services Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

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

Excentia Human Services Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/30/2021

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

EEOC Sues Suisan Company, Ltd for Racial Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

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

EEOC Sues Pilot Freight Services for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

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

EEOC Files Disability Lawsuits in El Paso and Ft. Worth Based on COVID Related Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/27/2021

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

EEOC Sues Presidente Supermarket for Pregnancy Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/24/2021

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

EEOC Sues Solé Miami for Religious Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/24/2021

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

New York Federal Court Approves Employees’ $1.8 Million Slice In EEOC “Onionhead” Religion Discrimination Lawsuit

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/11/2020

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

EEOC Sues Yale New Haven Hospital for Age and Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/12/2020

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

BLI Northwest & Successor Harris Pacific Northwest to Pay $100,000 and Provide Other Relief to Settle EEOC Disability...

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 1/30/2020

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

EEOC Sues Black Forest Décor for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/28/2019

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

Alliance Ground to Pay $135,000 to Settle EEOC Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/21/2019

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

Target Sued by EEOC For Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/25/2018

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

Car Wash Headquarters to Pay $225,000 to Settle EEOC Class Race Discrimination Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/10/2018

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 Jury Verdicts Award $6 Million and $7.97 Million To Wrongfully Terminated Employees

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 5/17/2018

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 More You Know... Or Others Think You Know: Fifth Circuit Finds Decision-maker Had Knowledge to Constitute Retaliation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/7/2017

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

Mining company doomed in resurrected 'mark of the beast' lawsuit

Burr & Forman on 8/8/2017

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

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