The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed double the number of religious discrimination lawsuits on behalf of Jewish workers since the start of the second Trump administration than it did during the decade prior, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said Wednesday at a Duane Morris LLP seminar.
A Ninth Circuit panel is expected to ask about whether goods at a facility came to rest and thus interrupted the flow of interstate commerce, during arguments over whether warehouse workers are exempt from federal arbitration requirements, attorneys said.
The Seventh Circuit questioned during a hearing Wednesday if Costco's decision to offer a deaf forklift driver a night shift position, instead of a preferred daytime role, constitutes the kind of adverse action that can sustain an Americans with Disabilities Act claim.