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June 25, 2025
A Colorado lawyer has settled claims she brought against her former employer in December, when she accused the law firm of having "abruptly and unlawfully" terminated her employment due to her age and gender.
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June 25, 2025
The Fourth Circuit declined to reinstate a retaliation suit from a maintenance company director who said he was fired for complaining that a female colleague was being sexually harassed, ruling his case lacked evidence that bias, not pandemic-related budget constraints, drove his termination.
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June 25, 2025
The potential addition of a new Republican member to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would give the agency's leader the quorum she needs to launch precedent-setting litigation and overhaul Biden-era policies. Here's what experts expect from the EEOC in the second half of 2025.
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June 24, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 20 fewer lawsuits in the five months since the second Trump administration began than it did during the same time period in 2024. Here’s a look at the cases filed so far by Trump's EEOC.
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June 24, 2025
The Fourth Circuit declined to revive a transgender man's constitutional claims against a religious hospital run by the University of Maryland Medical System over a canceled hysterectomy for gender dysphoria, concluding Tuesday that it couldn't grant further relief, and refused to consider a "late-breaking" argument for emotional distress damages.
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June 24, 2025
X Corp. challenged a request from former Twitter employees in Washington state to make the social media giant arbitrate claims about unpaid severance and bonuses, telling a federal judge that there is a lack of evidence showing the workers have valid arbitration agreements with the company.
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June 24, 2025
The Tenth Circuit backed the dismissal Tuesday of a suit from an ex-U.S. Bank executive who blamed his termination on age bias, ruling his state law allegations could have been addressed when his federal discrimination claim was resolved by a judge.
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June 24, 2025
In the first half of 2025, states tackled the litigation consequences of some statutes and continued the trend of developing employment laws that go far beyond the federal floor. Here, Law360 highlights four state law developments that stirred debate.
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June 24, 2025
A California state appellate court has rejected TikTok parent ByteDance Inc.'s bid to make a former employee arbitrate pay discrimination claims against it, saying that an underlying arbitration agreement was unenforceable for requiring her to arbitrate claims while preserving all the Chinese internet technology company's rights and remedies.
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June 24, 2025
A state appeals court freed Texas A&M University on Tuesday from a lawsuit brought by a professor who was denied tenure, finding that her pregnancy-related leaves fell under a portion of the Family Medical Leave Act under which the university has immunity.
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June 24, 2025
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a suit from a highway department worker who claimed he was fired for taking medical leave, saying an Ohio township's position that a private investigator saw him doing construction work put the termination on solid ground.
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June 24, 2025
Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. told a New Jersey federal court this week that a former in-house data privacy attorney suing the pharmaceuticals giant for discrimination failed to plead any facts supporting her allegation that the company passed her over for a job in favor of a less qualified candidate.
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June 24, 2025
DLA Piper fired an information technology employee because of his depression and anxiety, he told a New York federal court, saying the firm cited a poor "culture fit" to gloss over terminating him at the end of his medical leave.
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June 24, 2025
A former vice president of finance at an endurance event operator has alleged in Massachusetts state court that the company considered her "too old for the C-suite" when it passed her over for the job of chief financial officer, then fired her in retaliation for complaining about age discrimination.
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June 24, 2025
An animal health company's argument that paying a female veterinary pathologist less than her male counterparts was not motivated by bias because the employer matched incoming male workers' prior salaries is not an adequate defense, she told a New Jersey federal court.
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June 24, 2025
A restaurant franchisee fired an employee after she announced she was pregnant and asked to work from home to manage her pregnancy-related nausea, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in South Dakota federal court.
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June 23, 2025
A group of civil rights advocates and their opponent, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, are both claiming victory after the state's high court determined that a 2021 law that blocks the teaching of certain racial and gender topics in public classrooms does not apply to academic speech in higher educational settings.
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June 23, 2025
The Fourth Circuit reinstated a lawsuit Monday accusing a Kaiser Permanente subsidiary of yanking a Christian woman's job offer after rejecting her request to sidestep its COVID-19 vaccine requirement, stating the lower court should reassess the sincerity of her beliefs in light of a recent circuit ruling.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled against a retired firefighter and held that the Americans with Disabilities Act suit doesn't prohibit discrimination against people who have left the workforce, but the high court didn't completely foreclose discrimination claims over post-employment benefits.
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June 23, 2025
A federal judge said a Christian refugee resettlement agency may move ahead with claims that Michigan sought to force the agency to agree to hire non-Christians to be eligible for contracts.
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June 23, 2025
A telemarketing company agreed to pay $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it unlawfully fired a Black employee after falsely accusing her of using profanity during a customer call, according to a filing in Ohio federal court.
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June 23, 2025
An assistant district attorney alleged in North Carolina federal court that her boss, District Attorney Michael Waters, discriminated against her and other Black employees by treating them unfairly and paying them less than white colleagues.
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June 23, 2025
The owner of a Missouri restaurant repeatedly made lewd comments to a female manager, paid her less than a male colleague and punished her when she tried to ignore his advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in federal court.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a Third Circuit ruling that revived a proposed class action claiming a subsidiary of India-based Tech Mahindra unlawfully favored South Asian workers, despite the company's argument that the appeals court had deepened a circuit split.
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June 20, 2025
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general convinced a federal judge to block the National Institutes of Health from nixing grants over their purported connections to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and lawmakers in North Carolina advanced legislation to ban DEI in state employment. Here, Law360 looks at DEI-related legal developments from the past week that employment attorneys should know.