Union Claims Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Employee March 21, 2019 By Josh Eidelson A union organizing Amazon.com Inc. employees in New York has filed a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing one...
Democrats Propose Ban on Mandatory Arbitration in Employment, Consumer Contracts March 1, 2019 By Paresh Dave Six Google employees on Thursday joined U.S. lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer...
Airbnb Will No Longer Require Arbitration for Employee Bias and Harassment Claims November 13, 2018 By Olivia Zaleski Airbnb Inc., following Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., said it would not force employees who filed...
Colleges Handling Surge in Claims of Past Sexual Harassment October 16, 2018 By Collin Binkley For 35 years, Ruth D’Eredita tried to dismiss her former professor’s behavior — the way he touched her, groped her...
U.S. Lawsuit Accuses Walmart of Bias Against Pregnant Employees September 24, 2018 By Andrew G. Simpson Walmart is again being accused of violating federal law by failing to accommodate workers’ pregnancy-related medical restrictions. According to a...
IBM Being Sued for Age Discrimination September 21, 2018 By Gerrit De Vynck Shannon Liss-Riordan has been compared to “a pit bull with a Chihuahua in its mouth.” In a career spanning almost...
Gender, Seniority Key Factors in Workplace Harassment: Hiscox Survey September 5, 2018 More than one-third (35 percent) of employees in the U.S. feel they’ve experienced workplace harassment, and half of them believe...
JPMorgan Settles Black Advisers’ Job Bias Lawsuit for $24 Million September 5, 2018 By Max Abelson As racial diversity tumbles on Wall Street, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a settlement with financial advisers who say...
Barnes & Noble Calls Fired CEO’s Defamation Claims ‘Lies and Mischaracterizations’ August 29, 2018 By Jonathan Stempel Barnes & Noble Inc. was sued on Tuesday by a former chief executive officer who said the largest U.S. bookstore...
Jury Awards $1.25 Million in University Harassment Case But Denies Retaliation Claim July 30, 2018 By Sydney Maki A jury awarded $1.25 million to a former Columbia University finance professor whose senior colleague sent dozens of emails disparaging...