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NLRB hits Amazon with joint employer lawsuit, deepening drivers’ union saga
The company discriminated against unionizing employees and refused to collectively bargain with them, the board said in a Sept. 30 complaint.
By Ryan Golden • Oct. 7, 2024 -
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As SCOTUS’ new term begins, an ADA battle awaits
HR Dive spoke to the lead counsel for a retired firefighter whose disability discrimination case is set to be argued before the high court.
By Ryan Golden • Oct. 7, 2024 -
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Lack of resources may account for EEOC’s ‘surprisingly sluggish’ year, Seyfarth says
After a strong 2023 fiscal year, the agency filed a mere 96 merit lawsuits in fiscal year 2024 — one of the lowest numbers in decades.
By Emilie Shumway • Oct. 4, 2024 -
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3 requests that probably aren’t ADA accommodations
There are a few workplace modifications that generally are not reasonable, according to Daniel Stern, member of the firm at Dykema.
By Kate Tornone • Oct. 4, 2024 -
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Column // HR ChartablesGenerative AI still absent from most employer policies — even as executives fear being sued for using it
In this first edition of HR Dive’s new data series, we take a closer look at how executives view emerging tech and its role in workplace policy.
By Ryan Golden • Oct. 2, 2024 -
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California passes fall flurry of laws on paid leave, discrimination and job posts
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several proposals in September’s final days.
By Ryan Golden • Oct. 2, 2024 -
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Theater company terminated health insurance when workers turned 65, EEOC alleges
New Mexico-based Allen Theatres, Inc. also “mandatorily retired” a 72-year-old worker in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the agency said.
By Emilie Shumway • Oct. 1, 2024 -
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Transgender employee harassed on first day of work and fired the next day, EEOC claims
The lawsuit alleged that owners of a Holiday Inn Express franchise failed to remedy a hostile work environment created by a housekeeping supervisor.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 30, 2024 -
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Berkeley settles ADA lawsuit over remote attendance for commission members
City representatives approved requests but required commission members’ home addresses be publicly posted and that they allow members of the public into their homes, the complaint alleged.
By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 30, 2024 -
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JBS accused of abusing immigrant workers at Colorado beef plant
As many as 500 French-speaking immigrants were allegedly subject to human trafficking and forced to pay hundreds of dollars for poor living conditions, job applications and transportation.
By Nathan Owens • Sept. 27, 2024 -
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Employer settles claim that HR staff required harassment victim to obtain restraining order
A female employee for a Michigan farming business repeatedly attempted to report a male co-worker’s sexual harassment and physical threats, the agency alleged.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 27, 2024 -
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Feds’ PWFA enforcement picks up steam
EEOC has filed three pregnancy discrimination lawsuits in as many weeks, and all alleged a failure to accommodate.
By Kate Tornone • Sept. 26, 2024 -
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Home care agency settles allegations it accommodated ‘race-based requests’ for aides
The home health aide provider allegedly terminated the assignments of Black and Hispanic aides to accommodate patients’ and family members’ racial preferences, EEOC said.
By Ginger Christ • Sept. 25, 2024 -
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Major companies keep hiring North Korean IT workers
Dozens of Fortune 100 organizations have inadvertently hired workers from North Korea applying for remote jobs, Mandiant said.
By Matt Kapko • Sept. 25, 2024 -
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Judge stops EEOC from enforcing pregnancy rule, harassment guidance against Catholic association
The association, which includes 1,400 employers, objected to legal requirements related to abortion, infertility treatments, pronoun usage and single-sex spaces.
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 24, 2024 -
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Agricultural employer group sues to block rule strengthening H-2A worker protections
The rule, which bars employers from retaliating against organizing efforts among temporary farmworkers, has already been overturned in 17 states.
By Sarah Zimmerman • Sept. 24, 2024 -
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False felony conviction on ADP background check tanked candidate’s job offer, suit alleges
The company’s screening services have been the subject of several lawsuits in recent years.
By Ryan Golden • Updated Sept. 24, 2024 -
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EEOC: Employer refused remote work for employee who had stroke, violating ADA
Working on site was not an essential function of the employee’s job responding to customer inquiries, according to the lawsuit.
By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 23, 2024 -
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North American firms are largely transparent on pay — mostly thanks to regulators, WTW finds
Jurisdictions in 15 states and Washington, D.C., mandate pay transparency, and some also mandate pay data collection.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 20, 2024 -
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Clinic settles ADA claim alleging it fired worker on her first day
The company’s CEO allegedly told the employee “she should have disclosed her disability and need for accommodation during her interview.”
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 19, 2024 -
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Election 202440% of states mandate paid time off to vote — but some employers go a step further
Only 29% of U.S. adults said their company has a voting leave policy, according to the results of a recent survey by Brightmine.
By Ginger Christ • Sept. 19, 2024 -
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Court tosses journalists’ ‘reverse discrimination’ challenge to Gannett’s diversity policy
The plaintiffs still have a chance to amend their complaint to sufficiently allege a cause of action for disparate treatment, the court said.
By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 17, 2024 -
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Generation Z employees are more willing to bend the rules to ‘get the job done,’ survey says
Generational gaps in ethics and compliance could lead to unique challenges for companies with multi-generational workforces, a new report finds.
By Carolyn Crist • Sept. 17, 2024 -
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EEOC claims employer treated workers’ failure to return from FMLA leave as ‘voluntary resignation’
Exhaustion of FMLA leave does not necessarily preclude additional leave under the ADA, the commission and federal courts have said previously.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 16, 2024 -
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Age and pay bias charges are a problem for the tech industry, EEOC says
The industry’s diversity has “barely changed in a generation,” Chair Charlotte Burrows said Wednesday.
By Kate Tornone • Sept. 16, 2024
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