by PC Editorial Staff | Jan 4, 2023 | Civil Rights Act, Discrimination, EEOC, retaliation, Title VII
In December 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that a piping inspection and services company will pay $250,000 to resolve a race discrimination and retaliation suit. The discrimination case involved harassment, racist remarks, and...
by PC Editorial Staff | Dec 28, 2022 | ADA, Discrimination, EEOC, reasonable accommodation, retaliation
On December 20th, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that ISS Facility Services will pay $47,500 and provide other relief to settle disability discrimination and retaliation charges. Specifically, the charges allege that the...
by PC Editorial Staff | Dec 6, 2022 | Discrimination, EEOC, reasonable accommodation, retaliation
Recently, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that a nationwide convenience store chain agreed to pay $8 million to resolve pregnancy and disability discrimination claims. The settlement follows an EEOC investigation that found multiple...
by PC Editorial Staff | Oct 11, 2022 | Discrimination, EEOC, retaliation
This month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that a Buffalo, New York-based staffing company will pay $550,000 to settle a hiring discrimination lawsuit. Notably, the company’s discriminatory practices were against a staggeringly wide...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 7, 2022 | OSHA, retaliation, whistleblower
On September 1st, 2022, the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a ruling in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit. In summary, OSHA found that Wells Fargo violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the...
by PC Editorial Staff | Aug 23, 2022 | Labor-Management Relations, NLRA, NLRB, retaliation
On August 18th, 2022, a U.S. District Judge for the District Court of Western Tennessee (the Court) issued an injunction against a Memphis, Tennessee Starbucks in a retaliation and wrongful termination case involving employees engaged in union activities. The National...
