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Lawsuit Says EEOC Has Halted All Federal-Sector Class Complaints

A labor union and two female prison employees filed a lawsuit late last month accusing a U.S. civil rights agency of unlawfully halting their sexual harassment case as part of wide...

AI exclusions split the EPL market as hiring bias litigation advances

Workday litigation sharpens focus on exclusions, accountability and policy wording

JCPenney Settles EEOC Lawsuit Over Firing of Worker with Breast Cancer: $99K Payout

When employers outsource leave administration to a third-party administrator (TPA), legal responsibility remains with the employer – as a recent settlement out of Atlanta shows. Th...

Insurer Says Virginia Law Blocks Payment of $10M Punitive Damages for ‘Intentional’ Acts

Twin City Fire Insurance Co. says it is not obligated to cover a Virginia employer’s $10 million punitive damages penalty for racial bias because the company’s behavior was found b...

Pearson ADA settlement raises questions over vendor liability

Pearson outsourced its benefits and training platforms to TP vendors. The EEOC said that did not outsource its ADA obligations. Every employer using TP HR technology has the same e...

EEOC Moves to End Employer Reporting of Worker Race, Sex Data

The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination moved to scrap a requirement that employers annually submit data on the race and sex of their workers, which sin...

U.S. Court of Appeals Decision Highlights Retaliation Risks During Employee Separations

Meta Employees’ Lawsuit Shows That if AI Fires You, Proving it Is the Hard Part

A novel lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms relied on discriminatory AI tools to select employees for layoffs highlights the problems workers face in suing employers over the new...

Vanderbilt lawsuit puts employer appeals authority in the crosshairs

Self-funded employers who hold appeal authority over coverage decisions are not bystanders to carrier policy - the Vanderbilt case shows exactly how that position creates direct Ti...

Judge recommends trimming EEOC lawsuit, leaving one failure-to-accommodate claim

The magistrate judge found insufficient evidence for EEOC’s retaliation and disparate treatment claims in the 2024 lawsuit.

The EEOC’s Recalibration: How the Agency's New Playbook Reshapes Employer Risk

Key Takeaways: The EEOC's new National Enforcement Plan reinforces a broader federal shift away from expansive disparate impact theories and toward claims involving intentional di...

California Hotel Paying $2.75M for Pandemic Return-to-Work Law Violations

A California hotel is paying $2.75 million for failing to comply with a state law that requires offering available positions to former employees based on seniority after pandemic-r...

ERISA litigation surge puts plan sponsors on defense, brokers on alert, says Bonnie Treichel

Retirement plan lawsuits have spiked since 2020, and AI-assisted filing is accelerating the trend — leaving plan sponsors and their advisors exposed

White HR worker gets partial win in reverse bias lawsuit against polling firm

Among other claims, the plaintiff alleged she was excluded from a company-organized diversity, equity and inclusion webinar described as “not for [W]hite folks.”

Jury was ‘inflamed by prejudice,’ SHRM appeal argues

In an opening appeal, SHRM argued that a trial it lost late last year was unfair due to how the jury was directed and its “excessive” award of $11.5 million.

SHRM’s insurance carrier says it’s not on the hook for $10M jury verdict

The insurer sued SHRM Tuesday, alleging state law prohibits it from indemnifying the organization because the jury found intentional race discrimination.

Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Defense: Attorney Insights for Targeted Employers

Employers accused of California Labor Code violations under the state’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) can face substantial civil penalties. PAGA allows current and former em...

EEOC Says Nike Complied With Subpoena, Drops Lawsuit

The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination has dropped a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena in an investigation of Nike’s treatment of white employees,...

Staffing firm says Philadelphia Indemnity refused to defend labor-law class action

An internal email about a "sample case" sits at the heart of this coverage fight

EEOC sues university over retaliation following DEI training complaint

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Missouri university that allegedly retaliated against a Black employee after she complained about being separated from w...

EEOC sues over discrimination in promotion decision

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a Title VII lawsuit against The New York Times, alleging that the newspaper discriminated against a white male employee b...

Deloitte to pay $21.5M to settle claims its DEI programs violated federal civil rights law

“Government contractors cannot reward or penalize employees based on race or sex,” the attorney general said.

Workday, female ex-engineer agree to dismiss retaliation lawsuit

Not even the use of a complaint form for situations deemed “too risky to use HR” addressed the plaintiff’s harassment concerns, she claimed.