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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 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...
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...
Andrea Ivan, a former administrative assistant with the law firm DLA Piper LLP (“DLA Piper”), has filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ivan, who is 65 years old, worked at the Palo Alto office of DLA Piper. Among other things, Ivan alleges...
Originally Published on August 28, 2020; Revised on February 10, 2021 n the California Court of Appeal decision, Galvan v. Dameron Hospital Association (2019) 37 Cal.App.5th 549, the Court of Appeal discusses the types of workplace statements (by a supervisor) that...
According to The Sacramento Bee, Dignity Health has been ordered to pay $570,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by a former food service technician, Alina Sorling, against Mercy Medical Center ("Mercy Medical") in Redding, California. Sorling, who...
Alf Clausen -- the former veteran music composer for The Simpsons -- has filed a lawsuit for age and disability discrimination against Twentieth Century Fox Film and The Walt Disney Company. Clausen, who is 78 years old, started working for Twentieth Century Fox...