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Lowe’s Company Inc. is being sued for a “troubling pattern” of male-on-male sexual harassment at its Vacaville store, a San Francisco attorney said Wednesday after filing the civil complaint in Solano County Superior Court. In a press statement and during a brief interview, Kelly Armstrong said she filed the lawsuit on behalf of a John

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Five current and former Amazon employees have filed discrimination and retaliation lawsuits against the company, including one case in which an employee alleges that her supervisor referred to her using a racial epithet. The complaints, filed in various jurisdictions throughout the country, claim that the employees faced discrimination that was racial, sexual or gender-based from

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An Indianapolis-based medical supply company’s former manager has won $3.6 million in a settlement of her whistleblower lawsuit accusing that company and a health insurance company of defrauding a government insurance program. Crystal Derrick, who was a national account manager in Roche Diagnostics Corp.’s diabetes division, was awarded the money nearly two years after filing

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JBS Swift and company will pay up to $5.5 million to settle a race and religious discrimination claim. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit in 2010. One claim was that JBS denied Muslim employees the ability to pray as required by their religion at its Greeley plant. The EEOC’s lawsuit also charged

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A customer of the Subway sandwich chain was cleared to proceed with her lawsuit against the company for incessantly texting her even after she asked them to stop. Marina Soliman filed the lawsuit in March of last year because she was receiving promotional text messages from the fast-food chain that she couldn’t opt out of.

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McDonald’s Corp agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California. The preliminary settlement resolves claims that the company used a timekeeping system that cheated workers out of overtime, barred workers from taking rest breaks during their shifts,

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A former Prisma Health employee is suing the health system alleging race discrimination and retaliation. Renee Alexander — a Black woman — says this discrimination and retaliation led to harassment, demotion, loss of promotions and hires, and eventually the end of her employment, according to the filed lawsuit. She retired from Prisma last summer but

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A dozen female water polo players who accused their coach of sexual abuse will split nearly $14 million after settling a lawsuit against USA Water Polo and a California club. The athletes alleged that International Water Polo Club and the national governing body for the sport failed to protect them from abuse by coach Bahram

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The California-based health system agreed to settle two lawsuits alleging unfair practices that resulted in Black and Hispanic workers being paid less and receiving fewer promotions than their white counterparts. In total, Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $18.9 million as part of the settlements. Kaiser Permanente has agreed to settle two race discrimination lawsuits with

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Nike has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit by workers alleging they should have been paid for time spent in security checks (Rodriquez, et al. v. Nike, No. 5:14-CV-1508 (N.D. Calif., April 23, 2021)). The class includes 16,658 current and former non-exempt retail store employees who worked in California for