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In fiscal year 2023, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (“WHD”) recovered over $274M in back [...]
For more than a decade, young women complained that Paul Marciano, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Guess? Jeans, sexually harassed [...]
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly recently agreed to settle two age discrimination lawsuits, one for $2.4M in a suit brought by the [...]
Alan Lorefice worked as a biologist for a state environmental agency for 20 years. One day, he invited DK, a female [...]
Jurors recently awarded a former White Starbucks regional manager $25.6M – $600k in compensatory damages and $25M in punitive damages – [...]
While artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated systems offer new opportunities for employers and employees, they also have the potential to [...]
Each year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) compiles and publishes statistics on the charges of discrimination it receives. Employees [...]
Since 1977, employers, courts, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have relied on the language in TWA v. Hardiston, [...]
Maryland staffing agency Green JobWorks LLC (“Green JobWorks”) gets to pay almost $2.7M for a pattern or practice of sex discrimination against [...]
In April, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a technical assistance paper on Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment. While [...]