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According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, "[a] recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that mistreatment — categorized as discrimination, verbal or physical abuse and sexual harassment — may contribute to burnout and suicidal thoughts in surgical...
Tulare County-based Tucoemas Federal Credit Union ("Tucoemas") has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit. The EEOC alleges that Tucoemas "failed to hire three qualified internal female applicants over the age of 50 and...
According to The Sacramento Bee, five Disneyland workers have filed a class action lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company, alleging that the company failed to pay workers a living wage and to comply with Anaheim's Living Wage Ordinance (known as "Measure L"). Passed...
Chipotle "will pay $95,000 and make substantial changes to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)." According to the EEOC, Austin Melton, a San Jose, California Chipotle store manager who was...
According to Bloomberg Law, "[t]he Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs alleges that Oracle owes women, Asian, and black employees $400 million after paying them less than their male, white counterparts, and placing them in lower-paying...
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (the “FEHA”) makes certain employment practices unlawful, including discrimination and harassment of employees by employers. Currently, under California law, if an employee wants to file a lawsuit against his current or...
According to The Business Journals, a 79 year-old former flight attendant has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Delta Airlines ("Delta"), alleging age discrimination. Ida Gomez Llanos began working as a flight attendant for Delta in 1962 and was terminated in...
Originally Published on December 6, 2019; Revised on April 17, 2021 In Avila v. Continental Airlines, Inc., 165 Cal.App.4th 1237 (2008), the California Court of Appeal clarified what an employee must do in order to request leave under the California Family Rights Act...
Originally Published on December 5, 2019; Revised on April 27, 2021 In A.M. v. Albertsons, LLC, 178 Cal.App.4th 455 (2009), the California Court of Appeal held in favor of a plaintiff employee on her failure to provide a reasonable accommodation claim. The salient...
In Glynn v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 42 Cal.App.5th 47 (2019), the California Court of Appeal held that even an employer's good faith mistakes may constitute evidence of disability discrimination under California law. A summary of the salient facts of...