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July 24, 2026
A former file clerk for the Defender Association of Philadelphia sued the organization Friday for discrimination, alleging she faced retaliation for going out on leave to address her parents' health conditions as well as termination because of her age.
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July 24, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel Friday revived a former Kaiser Permanente employee's discrimination suit accusing The Permanente Medical Group Inc. of unlawfully firing her for refusing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, ruling that the worker adequately informed the company of the vaccine's conflict with her sincerely held religious beliefs.
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July 24, 2026
Tesla Inc. faces a disability discrimination lawsuit from a worker who claims in California state court that it refused to accommodate an ongoing knee disability and disqualified him from transferring to a less demanding role due to his legal medical cannabis usage.
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July 24, 2026
The D.C. prison system and its director have dodged a former guard's claim that they violated the First Amendment by firing her after she leaked emails and publicized pandemic-era jailhouse conditions, but the system's deputy director must keep facing this claim, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday.
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July 24, 2026
An Ohio-based multinational engineering firm fired the founder of a company it acquired because of his age and race just three days after suggesting that he retire, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania federal court Friday.
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July 24, 2026
A former immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in California federal court claiming she was pushed off the bench because she is Black and female, and previously advocated for immigrant clients as an attorney — and saying dozens of similarly situated judges were also fired or denied permanent positions.
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July 24, 2026
The Eighth Circuit declined Friday to reinstate a female former construction worker's suit claiming she was forced to resign after her employer failed to curb sex discrimination, ruling her case falls apart because she never explicitly complained that she faced gendered prejudice on the job.
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July 24, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's decision to drop its subpoena for information on Jewish employees at the University of Pennsylvania may have been a strategic move to preserve a district court decision affirming its broad investigative authority, experts said.
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July 24, 2026
The former director of operations for a property management company has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in the midst of finding out she had cancer, saying her ex-employer knew she might seek accommodations for her diagnosis and sacked her anyway.
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July 24, 2026
A group of Texas car dealerships will pay $925,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging they did nothing to curb managers' rampant harassment of female employees and transferred or fired workers who complained, according to a federal court filing.
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July 24, 2026
This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider a class of restaurant workers' claims that a steakhouse has not provided accurate information necessary to administer an $800,000 settlement that the two sides reached in April.
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July 24, 2026
The Seventh Circuit reopened a human resources manager's lawsuit accusing a metal castings company of firing her for investigating and documenting workplace harassment, ruling a jury should have a chance to determine whether her termination was connected to her reports.
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July 24, 2026
A Texas barber and hairstylist school has struck a deal to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it rescinded a job offer to a pregnant applicant because the school already had another pregnant teacher on staff.
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July 24, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a final settlement approval hearing in a worker misclassification suit against Grubhub that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 23, 2026
The Second Circuit said Thursday that an ex-employee should get a second shot at his claim that a union benefit fund failed to accommodate his pulmonary embolism complications, stating the lower court needed to weigh disputes about whether his request to change service routes was reasonable.
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July 23, 2026
Meat processor Smithfield Foods shouldn't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it terminated a Georgia-based senior sales employee because she was almost 60, with a federal magistrate judge recommending that jurors decide whether the company included her in layoffs because of her age.
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July 23, 2026
The Colorado Court of Appeals held for the first time Thursday that two Colorado statutes meant to close gender pay gaps do not require workers to allege gender discrimination, partially reviving a former human services caseworker's retaliation case against the county department she had worked for.
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July 23, 2026
A Black forklift operator who claimed his employer denied him overtime work opportunities because of his race and in retaliation for filing discrimination complaints lost his appeal Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, which found that he failed to show his Arab American co-workers were truly comparable to him.
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July 23, 2026
A Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate must face a Black worker's lawsuit alleging the company abruptly fired her for ignoring an executive's instructions, a New York federal judge ruled, concluding that a jury could find she was treated worse than a white man who committed a more serious error.
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July 23, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled Thursday that a former Debevoise & Plimpton associate must arbitrate his disability discrimination and retaliation claims against the firm, finding that a broad arbitration provision in a confidential settlement agreement covering his earlier termination delegates questions about the scope of arbitration to the arbitrator.
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July 23, 2026
The University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck a deal to end their battle over a subpoena seeking contact information of Jewish UPenn employees after the agency agreed to back away from enforcing it, the parties told the Third Circuit on Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
The National Federation of Federal Employees and a group of federal workers urged a California federal court to halt the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from sending "proselytizing" religious messages to agency employees by email, arguing the messages are unconstitutional and are causing irreparable harm.
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July 23, 2026
A recent public meeting that focused on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's plan to scrap a longtime workforce data collection program showcased sharp divisions among agency leaders about its broader direction and the morale of its staff. Here, Law360 looks at four takeaways.
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July 23, 2026
Nike should hand over $15 million to a former employee who said she was paid less than male colleagues and passed over for promotions despite exceeding performance expectations, a federal jury in Oregon said.
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July 23, 2026
The clock started ticking Thursday on a monthlong public comment period for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's proposal to erase 6-decade-old requirements that large employers submit annual snapshots of their workforce demographics.