A former associate who claims DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that she got positive feedback as she worked with large corporate clients and was "shocked" when she was terminated.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered $660 million for aggrieved workers last fiscal year, and took a large bite out of its backlog of pending workplace discrimination charges, according to an agency report released Monday.
A National Labor Relations Board member said he would be "open to considering" whether regional directors should be allowed to accept objections filed after deadlines, in a decision Monday declining to review a dismissal of a fast food chain's objections to the result of a decertification election.