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“She could have been asked if she wanted to join in,” the judge reportedly stated. No one likes to feel like the office outcast, and sometimes, it’s the subtle snubs that stick with you the most—like a British woman who was recently awarded over $32,000 in compensation for workplace discrimination that included, among other issues,

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The lawsuit against Google alleges that the company pays men more than women for the same job and seeks a whopping $600 million in damages. Under heat for several antitrust complaints, legal woes mounted for Google in the US after nearly 11,000 women filed a class-action lawsuit against the Silicon Valley giant over gender pay

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Geneva Store Management Allowed Associate to Subject Female Employees to a Hostile Work Environment Based on Sex for Years, Federal Agency Charged BUFFALO, N.Y. – Walmart Stores East, LP will pay $410,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com¬mis¬sion (EEOC), the federal agency announced

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Numerous employees of Casino Nanaimo have launched lawsuits against the larger organization, claiming they were fired without cause as the COVID-19 pandemic began. Civil claims filed in BC Supreme Court in Nanaimo by non-union staff last fall claim Great Canadian Casinos Inc. (GCC), who owns and operates the casino, changed their contract agreements without consent

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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,