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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 Kroger Co. (“Kroger”) agreed to pay $21M to almost 47,000 workers to settle a class action after a payroll system [...]
Waste Industries U.S.A. and several subsidiaries will pay $3.1 million and provide extensive injunctive relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit [...]
Last August, the Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) agreed to settle, for $45M, a class action lawsuit with more than 1,000 [...]
National Telecommuting Institute, Inc., a Massachusetts-based staffing support firm, agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. [...]
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 [...]