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Every month we showcase an employment law case study that involves a large monetary payout and what the employer could have done to avoid it. Be sure that your managers have all the tools they need to help you avoid these kinds of costly mistakes with our employment law training programs.
The Walt Disney Company and several affiliates (collectively, “Disney”) have agreed to pay $43.25M to settle a class action that alleged [...]
Microsoft will pay $14.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the State of California, claiming that Microsoft employees working there [...]
Didlake, Inc., which provides janitorial and maintenance employees to federal worksites in Virginia, Maryland and D.C., will pay $1,017,500 to settle [...]
Earlier this month, we told you that the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case that will require the Court to [...]
National Telecommuting Institute, Inc. (“NTI”), a staffing support firm based out of Massachusetts, recently agreed to a $1.25M settlement with the U.S. [...]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission gave final approval to a $15 million settlement resolving claims that the U.S. Marshals Service [...]
State Street Corp., a federal financial services provider, will pay $4.2M to resolve claims that it pays female employees in multiple [...]
The parent company of Snapchat has agreed to pay $15 million to end a California Civil Rights Department suit alleging that [...]
DHL, a global shipping and delivery company, agreed to settle a race discrimination class action filed by the U.S. Equal Employment [...]
For a total of $27 million—including $9 million in attorneys’ fees--Google has settled a class action filed on behalf of roughly [...]