Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced one of the largest settlements ever in an individual case. It went against (if you can call a settlement “against”) Lockheed Martin, forcing the company to pay $2.5 million for knowingly looking the other way on alleged racial
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Morgan Stanley had agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over alleged systemic discrimination against 1,200 African-American and Latino employees, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case.
According to the original compliant filed last year (which can be downloaded here), the firm has discriminated against African Americans and Latinos in the distribution of accounts and other […]
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According to media reports and court documents, Nike Inc. will pay $7.6 million to settle a class-action suit over alleged discrimination against black employees at its Chicago Niketown store.
Nike was originally sued over this supposed systemic discrimination back in December 2003. The case, which involved approximately 400 current and former black employees […]
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In a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit, a federal jury has ruled that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. did indeed discriminate against a white former maintenance manager at its old Landover coffee-roasting plant based on race.
John Sullivan was hired in 1999 and then later demoted and replaced by a black subordinate. He claimed an African […]
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Hollywood must just go mining in the halls of California’s government political bureaucracy for some of its ideas. The state’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (*yawn, we can barely stay awake*) is being sued by Claire Connelly, a former secretary who alleges that the board’s Chairwoman insisted she be a surrogate mother for the […]
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As reported in Human Resource Executive Magazine, the new EEOC regulation allowing for discrimination against younger workers became effective this month. The new rule, which was a response to 2004 Supreme Court decision in General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. vs. Cline, allows employers to specifically tailor benefit plans and job ads to older workers without […]
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The EEOC and Walgreen Co. resolved a race-discrimination lawsuit this week with a $20 million proposed consent decree. The suit had alleged widespread bias against African-American workers by assigning them to low-performing Walgreens drugstores and stores in communities with large African-American populations.
The suit, which also claimed African-Americans were denied promotional opportunities based on […]
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A U.S. District Judge in California (William Alsup - San Francisco) has rejected a proposed FLSA settlement between Oracle and the plaintiffs. The proposed $9 million settlement was intended to resolve claims that the company had improperly denied overtime pay to workers. The federal judge classified the proposal as an unfair “bonanza” for both Oracle […]
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According to media reports, global investment banking and brokerage firm Morgan Stanley is facing yet another lawsuit about inappropriate sexual harassment by employees.
This case is based on accusations of former Morgan Stanley assistant against her boss, a broker in the bank’s Melville, Long Island office. As the NY Daily News reported last week:
In a […]
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A jury awarded a former Target employee nearly $1 million in response to his lawsuit against the retail giant. James Patton, who was demoted and then terminated following two weeks of service with the Oregon National guard, sued Target citing federal and state laws, which prohibit discrimination against military personnel and wrongful discharge.
The jury sided […]
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This story comes to us from Jackson County, Kansas where last week a jury awarded $131,340 to a former car dealership employee, Timothy McGeeney. The 48-year old former Finance and Insurance Director of Superior Volvo alleged that he was terminated in June 2005 after four years of employment, and replaced by a less-experienced, younger […]
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A new enforcement guideline was issued last week by the EEOC. The guideline is aimed at heightening corporate awareness that current discrimination laws apply to caregivers. The guidance clearly spells out how current laws that prohibit gender, pregnancy, or disability-based discrimination can apply to caregivers. It also seeks to dispel the misconception that, although the […]
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