News & Analysis as of November 17, 2024

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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

EEOC Sues Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building Products, LLC, for Discrimination Against Hispanic and...

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/1/2024

Federal Agency Charges Construction Parts and Auto Mechanic Companies Subjected Employees to Racial Slurs and Fired Employee for Complaining - MIAMI – Trebor USA Corp., Colt Truck Care, LLC, and Wholesale Building...more

Barrett Distribution Centers to Pay $60,000 in EEOC Retaliation Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 5/1/2024

Distribution Center Settles Federal Charge That It Retaliated Against Employee After He Complained of National Origin Discrimination at Its Memphis Facility - MEMPHIS -- Barrett Distribution Centers, LLC will pay $60,000...more

Groff v. DeJoy and Its Impact on Religious Accommodation

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/27/2023

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees and applicants on the basis of religion (as well as race, color, sex, and national origin), and it...more

EEOC Sues Schuff Steel Company for Race and National Origin Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/29/2022

Company Harassed and Retaliated Against African American and Hispanic Employees, Federal Agency Charges - PHOENIX -- Schuff Steel Company, a steel fabrication and erection company, violated federal law by harassing African...more

Owner of Brandon Denny’s to Pay $45,000 to Settle EEOC National Origin Harassment Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 5/17/2022

TAMPA, Fla. – RREMC, LLC, doing business as Denny’s Restaurant, a Florida-based company and the third-largest Denny’s franchisee in the United States, has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a national origin discrimination...more

EEOC Sues R&R Janitorial for Race and National Origin Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/1/2021

Federal Contractor Targeted and Fired Group of Hispanic Employees, Federal Agency Charged - WASHINGTON -- R&R Janitorial, Painting and Building Services, Inc., a federal contractor that provides janitorial services to...more

California Federal Court Reaffirms Standard for Establishing Commonality in Rule 23 Certification Under Title VII

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 4/23/2021

On March 9, 2021, the United States District Court, Northern District of California issued a ruling in Handloser v. HCL Technologies Ltd., 19-cv-01242-LKH, 2021 WL 879802 (Mar. 9, 2021), applying the 2011 Supreme Court...more

[Webinar] Beyond Bostock: Protections and Barriers for the LGBTQ+ Community - October 8th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 9/25/2020

Please join Nelson Mullins and LGBTQ+ leaders as we kick-off Atlanta Pride weekend with an online discussion of the legal and political battles ahead in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision and rethinking...more

Champion Fiberglass Settles EEOC Suit for Class Hiring Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/21/2020

Local Company Pays $225,000 to Resolve Claims That It Unlawfully Discriminated Against Non-Hispanic Applicants - HOUSTON - Champion Fiberglass, Inc. ("Champion"), a Houston-area manufacturing company, has settled a...more

Fifth Circuit Finds EEOC Did Not Have Authority to Issue 2012 Criminal History Guidance

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/9/2019

On August 6, 2019, in State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) overstepped its limited rulemaking...more

Judge: Interview questions about relocating from Puerto Rico do not amount to bias

McAfee & Taft on 6/12/2019

On May 13, 2019, a federal judge in Muskogee, Oklahoma, ruled against a plaintiff who alleged that that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denied her a job as a physician because she was a woman and was from Puerto Rico....more

Avoiding Claims of Citizenship and National Origin Discrimination When Interviewing, Hiring, and Onboarding Foreign Workers

Dickinson Wright on 3/4/2019

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of citizenship or national origin in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, or employing workers. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) as well as the Immigration Reform...more

Maritime Autowash Will Pay $300,000 in EEOC Race and National Origin Discrimination Case

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 12/20/2018

BALTIMORE - Maritime Autowash (later known as Phase 2 Investments, Inc.) will pay $300,000 in monetary relief and furnish equitable relief to settle a federal race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the...more

EEOC Sues LAZ Parking for National Origin Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/28/2018

Parking Company Laid Off Workers Based on National Origin, Federal Agency Says - BALTIMORE - LAZ Parking, the second largest parking company in the United States, violated federal law when it terminated three long-time...more

EEOC Sues Operators of La Cantera Resort for National Origin Discrimination And Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/25/2018

Resort Subjected Hispanic Banquet Workers to Harassment and Discriminatory Discipline, Then Fired Those Who Complained, Federal Agency Charges - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The operators of the La Cantera Resort and Spa in San...more

EEOC Sues Porous Materials for Sexual, Racial, And Anti-Immigrant Harassment and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/18/2018

Owner and Plant Manager Bullied Employees, Then Fired Employee Who Complained, Federal Agency Charges - NEW YORK - Porous Materials, Inc. (PMI), an Ithaca, N.Y.-based operator and manufacturer of testing equipment for...more

EEOC Sues Metairie Dry Cleaner for Discrimination and Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/10/2018

Marion's Cleaners Fired Hispanic Employee for Opposing Verbal and Physical Abuse Based on Her Race and National Origin, Agency Says - NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans-based Mariam Enterprises, doing business as Marion's Cleaners...more

Koch Foods Settles EEOC Harassment, National Origin And Race Bias Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/2/2018

Poultry Supplier Pays $3.75 Million to Class of Hispanic Workers - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Koch Foods, one of the largest poultry suppliers in the world, will pay $3,750,000 and furnish other relief to settle a class...more

SLS Hotel to Pay $2.5 Million To Settle EEOC Race, Color, National Origin Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/31/2018

Hotel Fired Employees Based on Race, Color, and National Origin, Federal Agency Charged - MIAMI - The SLS Hotel, operated by hotel, restaurant and nightlife company called "sbe", will pay $2.5 million and provide other...more

Court Rejects Individual Pattern And Practice Claim And Enforces Arbitration Agreement In Discrimination Case

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/26/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: In the midst of a legal landscape that is seemingly pro-arbitration, employers should recognize that employees still have a few strategies to oppose arbitration or invalidate an arbitration agreement. ...more

EEOC Sues Halliburton For National Origin and Religious Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/5/2018

Supervisors and Co-Workers Harassed Two Muslim Employees, Federal Agency Charges - DALLAS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced today that it has filed suit against energy giant Halliburton Energy...more

Web Exclusive - Alternate Reality: “Extreme Vetting” Of H-1B Work Visas

Fisher Phillips on 6/11/2018

To boost innovation and remain competitive, employers often have no option but to sponsor foreign nationals for H-1B work visas to meet their labor needs, especially when it comes to workers in science, technology,...more

Best Buy and EEOC Reach Agreement to Resolve Discrimination Charge

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/7/2018

Major Retail Chain's Personality Tests Adversely Impacted Applicants Based on Race and National Origin, Federal Agency Charged - CLEVELAND - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Best Buy, a...more

CVS Caremark Corporation and EEOC Reach Agreement to Resolve Discrimination Charge

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/7/2018

Federal Agency Charged Drugstore Chain's Personality Tests Had Negative Impact on Jobseekers Based on Race and National Origin - CLEVELAND - CVS Caremark Corporation, a nationwide retail pharmacy and health care company...more

New Mexico Supreme Court Rejects a Heightened Evidentiary Burden on a Plaintiff in a Reverse Race Discrimination Case

Littler on 3/14/2018

In Garcia v. Hatch Valley Public Schools, the New Mexico Supreme Court recently examined whether a plaintiff has a relatively heightened evidentiary burden in proving a reverse discrimination claim brought under the New...more

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