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A company has to pay a woman $105,000 in back pay and damages after firing her when she refused to retire at 65
J&M Industries, a Louisiana company, has agreed to pay a woman $105,000 in back pay and damages to …
Joshua Zitser
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Walmart settles a lawsuit that claims it passed a female worker for promotion because she had young children at home
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, a Walmart worker was told the company didn't think she wanted to s…
Grace Dean
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A Holiday Inn manager in Nebraska was fired after he checked himself into hospital for treatment of depression, a federal agency lawsuit claimed
The worker, a GM at a hotel in Nebraska, was hospitalized for two days. He was fired just hours bef…
Grace Dean
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A steel company is paying $500,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a manager shouted 'white power' and racially slurred Black and Latino workers
Some workers said they faced retaliation for complaining about the plant manager's behavior. The co…
Grace Dean
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Papa John's hired a blind worker, then fired him before he'd worked a shift when he asked to bring his service dog to work, a federal agency says
The worker needed the dog, named Indie, to travel to work and had asked to keep him in a back room …
Grace Dean
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A Chipotle manager repeatedly asked a teenage worker to remove her hijab and partially pulled it off when she refused to show him her hair, federal prosecutors say
The assistant manager at a Chipotle restaurant in Kansas "continually" asked the worker, then 19, t…
Grace Dean
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A Dollar General worker was fired 'immediately' after telling her manager she was pregnant, a federal agency says
The worker's dismissal was "discriminatory and motivated by her pregnancy," the EEOC claimed. The r…
Grace Dean
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Dollar General took back job offers from applicants with high blood pressure and poor eyesight, a federal agency lawsuit claimed
Dollar General has agreed to pay $1 million to settle the disability-discrimination lawsuit filed b…
Grace Dean
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A McDonald's manager sexually harassed a 17-year-old worker until she was 'forced' to resign, a federal agency says
The harassment culminated in the manager grabbing the teenager by the waist and suggesting he could…
Grace Dean
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A Hooters restaurant in North Carolina has been accused of racial discrimination in a lawsuit, which said managers made jokes about Black workers' hairstyles and appearances
Hooters treated women with darker skin tones unfairly and rehired far fewer of them post-pandemic, …
Grace Dean
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Companies won't hire these women to drive trucks because of their gender, a new lawsuit says.
Women truck drivers who applied to work for Stevens Transport have filed a lawsuit claiming gender …
Sebastian Cahill
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Wall Street wants boomers to work longer. But nobody wants to hire them.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's solution to the retirement crisis is for everyone to work into their 70s…
Ann C. Logue
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Pregnant workers could receive longer breaks and more time off for recovery, thanks to a new law going into effect today
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which went into effect Tuesday, requires employers to offer more…
Noah Sheidlower
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ExxonMobil is accused of failing to protect workers after 5 nooses were found at its Louisiana chemical plant
Employees found nooses hung at an ExxonMobil plant, but the company didn't do enough to protect wor…
Aaron McDade
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United Airlines to pay $305,000 to a Buddhist pilot who refused to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
The pilot, who was diagnosed with alcohol dependency, lost his FAA flying certificate because he de…
Ryan Hogg
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Walmart was ordered to pay $420,000 after firing a worker with Down syndrome. It tried to get a fresh trial, but just had that request denied.
After Walmart fired a store worker with Down syndrome in 2015 for "excessive absenteeism," it was o…
Grace Dean
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Employers are being warned that the use of algorithms and AI technology in hiring could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
The DOJ and EEOC warned the use of AI technologies could screen out people whose disabilities would…
Urooba Jamal
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Elon Musk lawsuits: All the biggest cases and investigations facing Tesla, SpaceX, and the billionaire CEO himself
Elon Musk and his companies Telsa, SpaceX, and X face numerous lawsuits and investigations. He's al…
Grace Kay,Jacob Shamsian,Nata…
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Kroger had to pay $180,000 to workers who were fired after they wouldn't wear LQBTQ+ pride symbols
A federal judge ordered Kroger to pay two former employees $180,000 after they were fired for refus…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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I'm a 56-year-old laid-off IT worker looking for a job. I have a hunch I'm not having luck due to ageism. How do I prove it?
There's a legal process for demonstrating age bias and discrimination in hiring. It's hard to prove…