In Arkansas, a jury has awarded more than $100,000 to a male surgical technician who filed an EEOC charge alleging he was discriminated against because of his sex. The six-figure verdict is a reminder that federal Title VII protects all employees from sex...
An urgent care facility in Georgia has agreed to pay $113,199 to resolve alleged violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). According to an investigation by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Premier Health Consultants LLC,...
If you ask an employee what disabled employees ask for most often, the answer is always the same. It’s time off to get proper treatment and to heal. It may sound perfectly reasonable, that is until you hit a wall of bureaucracy. At some point, you will come across an...
As the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moves to end demographic data reporting, employers must decide if data collection is a matter of compliance or leadership, Catalyst leaders say.
A Family Dollar store manager demanded a pregnant worker produce a doctor’s note the same holiday evening she was told via phone to take a few days’ leave from work, a complaint alleged.
For the longest time, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has served as the sole pillar governing employee leave for family and medical reasons. Over the years, it evolved into a patchwork of state Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws reshaping leave...
The settlements ranged from $75,000 to $21.5 million, court records show.
An arbitrator ordered the Post to reinstate Attiah and provide back pay after firing her for social media posts. Here’s what HR can learn from the situation.
Federal and state laws tend to dominate compliance discussions, but local ordinances carry serious financial consequences, too. Case in point: The City of Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) recently announced its second-largest enforcement action ever – a...
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