January 31, 2024 A class action alleges the U.S. Postal Service has failed to provide non-white postal police officers with the same access to an anonymous counseling program as postal inspectors.
January 10, 2024 A class action accuses Local 798 of discriminating against Black members by blocking their advancement efforts, giving preferential treatment to white members and creating a racially hostile environment.
January 27, 2023 Rockland County, County Clerk Donna G. Siberman, and the New York Unified Court System face a class action wherein a man claims he was refused translation services necessary for him participate in the Rockland County Drug Court.
December 12, 2022 Twitter faces a class action that alleges recent layoffs by the social media platform and owner Elon Musk have disproportionately impacted women.
October 12, 2022 State Farm faces a proposed class action wherein a former employee alleges she was subjected to racial discrimination and retaliation for challenging the company’s “discriminatory practices.”
September 27, 2022 Florida A&M students allege the board of governors for Florida's public university system and the state have discriminated against historically Black colleges and universities.
May 11, 2022 A former employee alleges in a proposed class action that Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has engaged in gender discrimination.
April 11, 2022 Broward County, Florida’s Hillsboro Club faces a proposed class action that alleges workers did not receive proper notice upon being terminated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 29, 2022 A class action alleges SMART Alabama and AGWM United have for years “cheated the United States immigration system” to employ Mexican nationals as underpaid auto parts production line workers.
January 18, 2022 An Alabama woman alleges in a class action that Walmart has “blatant[ly]” discriminated against female delivery drivers by providing only men’s pants as part of its mandatory work uniform.
December 3, 2021 A class action alleges the 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative has discriminated against Native American owner-members by denying them the use of capital credits worth nearly $9 million.
November 11, 2021 A class action alleges that an “old boys’ club” culture exists at UPS wherein female employees, especially those over the age of 40, routinely face systemic age and gender discrimination.
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October 27, 2021 A lawsuit looks to challenge NorthShore University HealthSystem’s alleged refusal to accommodate employees who request exemption from a COVID vaccine mandate.
September 27, 2021 A lawsuit claims United Airlines has failed to provide reasonable accommodations to employees who request exclusions from the requirement that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.
September 24, 2021 A lawsuit claims the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department has unlawfully discriminated against Black women police officers and retaliated against those who complained.
August 25, 2021 A lawsuit claims Tidelands Health has unlawfully discriminated against disabled and female new hires by administering a required strength test prior to employment.
August 16, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Prima Frutta Packing and related entities have unlawfully discriminated against agricultural workers on the basis of age, sex and national origin.
July 23, 2021 A lawsuit has been filed against Momentum Solar over alleged systemic racial discrimination against Black workers and retaliation against those who complained.
July 20, 2021 A class action alleges Walmart’s criminal background checks for job applicants are overly broad and disproportionately harm Black and Latinx prospective employees.
May 20, 2021 A class action alleges the University of Mississippi has engaged in deplorable, “largely off the record” age, gender and racial discrimination.
January 12, 2021 The Archdiocese of New York and a parish church, St. Joseph of the Holy Family, face allegations of labor law violations and racial and ethnic discrimination.
December 8, 2020 A class action alleges Klausner Lumber denied workers FMLA- and pandemic-related leave protections when it abruptly shuttered its U.S. operations in March 2020.
November 18, 2020 A class action alleges the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the City of Hartford, Conn. have worsened racial housing segregation in the city over decades.
November 18, 2020 Local 798 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, faces a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged racial and sexual discrimination.
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October 27, 2020 A former Uber driver alleges the company's reliance on its star rating system in determining worker terminations or "deactivations" is discriminatory against minority drivers.
September 30, 2020 A class action alleges Vision Property Management has preyed upon Black prospective homebuyers in the Detroit area with discriminatory contracts "structured to fail."
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July 20, 2020 A class action claims Whole Foods has disciplined and retaliated against employees who've worn Black Lives Matter masks despite publicly supporting the movement.
June 17, 2020 Morgan Stanley's former global head of diversity has filed a class action lawsuit alleging her Dec. 2019 firing was racially motivated and in retaliation for her diversification efforts.
January 14, 2020 A class action claims that Dollar General subsidiary Dolgencorp discriminated against pregnant warehouse employees and forced them to take unpaid leave.
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June 26, 2019 [UPDATE] The Fortune Society challenges Macy's policy of rejecting job applicants and firing those with criminal histories.
February 28, 2019 A lawsuit claims Nassau County (NY) owes unpaid wages and has violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to have in place comparable employment terms for female police dispatchers and make fire dispatchers
January 28, 2019 A former UnitedHealth Group senior account executive has sued the company over claims that she was discriminated against on the basis of her age and gender.
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January 23, 2019 A University of Arizona professor has filed suit over claims that the state’s employee healthcare plan unlawfully discriminates against transgender members.
December 18, 2018 A former food runner and barback has sued the operators of Central Park restaurant The Loeb Boathouse over claims of wage infractions and harassment.
November 19, 2018 A woman formerly employed as a registered nurse manager at Franklin Ridge Healthcare Center claims she was demoted and eventually terminated due to her race.
November 5, 2018 Chancellor’s Grill, a restaurant located in the Chancellor’s House luxury hotel, faces a lawsuit filed over claims of sexual harassment and racial discrimination.
November 2, 2018 Carolina First Bank's now-ended policy to perform credit checks on job applicants is the subject of a civil rights class action lawsuit.
November 1, 2018 The American Diabetes Association alleges that the NYC Dept. of Education has failed to properly train staff and have in place procedures to care for students with type 1 diabetes.
October 24, 2018 Capitol Wholesale Meats, Total Staffing Solutions and Elite Labor Services on 55th are accused of "denying employment to African-American laborers.”
October 9, 2018 A class action alleges the mandatory physical abilities test implemented by the Citrus County sheriff's office is discriminatory and has a disparate impact upon female employees.
August 31, 2018 A class action alleges alleges African Americans are “underrepresented” at JPMorgan Chase Bank and paid substantially less than non-African American counterparts.
August 8, 2018 A former employee has filed a lawsuit over alleged discrimination and adverse employment consequences stemming from AT&T’s refusal to excuse pregnancy-related work absences.
July 25, 2018 Low-T Centers, Inc. and several subsidiaries face a lawsuit from a former employee filed over allegedly unpaid wages and gender-based discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
June 4, 2018 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges female laborers working in IFCO’s warehouse are subject to gender discrimination.
May 21, 2018 Five individuals claim they experienced racial discrimination while working as security personnel at Lewis Gale Medical Center in Virginia.
May 15, 2018 Two women claim they experienced pregnancy discrimination and ultimately lost their jobs due to an AT&T attendance policy they claim favored certain workers over others.
