• Employment Rights
• Posted by: David Symington

A woman who worked at Sea World in San Diego for 45 years has accused the company of firing her without cause. She’s suing over what she alleges are years of unpaid overtime. Shari Sehlhorst said in a lawsuit filed in US District Court in California that she started working at Sea World in 1976

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A jury’s recent $10 million award to a white man in a discrimination lawsuit should have companies ensuring they are properly balancing their diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) programs with anti-discrimination laws. The award is a “wake-up call,” said Jonathan Segal, an attorney with Duane Morris in Philadelphia and New York City. “Pursue diversity but

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• Posted by: David Symington

A woman fired from her job for a medical disability is getting an overdue payday. TriMark Foodcraft, a commercial kitchen equipment corporation, is paying a former employee $25,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit related to necessary medical equipment. The corporation will also modify its current anti-discrimination policy to include examples of job modifications for

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A federal judge on Wednesday awarded a former Walmart pharmacist with $27 million in total damages, agreeing that the retail giant routinely denied her work breaks and overtime pay. The case was originally filed by former Walmart pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh in Orange County Superior Court in 2015, but was later moved to the Central District

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One of the world’s largest trucking companies, XPO Logistics, agreed Tuesday to pay $30 million to settle class-action lawsuits filed by hundreds of drivers who said they earned less than minimum wage delivering goods for major retailers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The combined settlements, approved by U.S. District Judge R.

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Federal workplace officials say a Houston-based electrical supply company unlawfully fired employee one day before his scheduled cancer surgery. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says Spike Electric and Controls LLC will pay a former employee $85,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the federal agency. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, an

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A federal jury in San Francisco has ordered Tesla to pay nearly $137 million to a Black elevator operator who accused the carmaker of ignoring racial abuse he faced while working at the automaker’s factory. The plaintiff, Owen Diaz, said he worked at the factory in Fremont, Calif., for about a year in 2015 and

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Popular game maker Activision Blizzard reached an $18 million settlement with the U.S. government over allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination against female employees at the company. Activision Blizzard, which is behind the hugely popular game franchises Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush, confirmed the deal was reached with the U.S. Equal

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Activision Blizzard employees and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a major media labor union, have filed an unfair labor practice lawsuit against Activision Blizzard accusing the video game company of worker intimidation and union busting. The union claims that Activision Blizzard is using coercive tactics to stop employees from unionizing. The lawsuit is one

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A female Barclays banker who used the “sexist language” that line managers call women “birds” won an employment proceeding against the bank. Analyst Anka Lacatus sued Barclays in the East London Employment Court and upheld the allegations of direct sexism.It also upheld her claim that the bank did not make rational adjustments to her working