Discrimination

July 23, 2021 A lawsuit claims Amazon failed to pay workers proper overtime wages and discriminated against female employees by paying them less than their male counterparts.

July 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims Society for Human Resource Management discriminated against deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals by failing to provide equal access to its services.

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.

June 15, 2021 A lawsuit claims Wendy’s operators discriminated against customers with mobility disabilities by failing to remedy excessive slopes in their parking lots.

June 11, 2021 A class action alleges the city of Long Beach, California has for years subjected Black employees to unequal pay and other forms of discrimination amid a “pattern and practice of anti-Black culture.”

June 11, 2021 A proposed class action looks to require three companies who offer online continuing legal education (CLE) courses to provide captioning for online audio.

June 10, 2021 A lawsuit claims Central Bucks School District has discriminated against female teachers by paying them less than male teachers with similar experience.

June 8, 2021 An ex-employee alleges Phyton Talent Advisors and Societe Generale Americas failed to pay proper overtime and fired him in retaliation for certain workplace complaints.

May 28, 2021 A class action alleges the Peace Corps has discriminated against invitees with disabilities.

May 20, 2021 A class action alleges the University of Mississippi has engaged in deplorable, “largely off the record” age, gender and racial discrimination.

May 19, 2021 A lawsuit alleges a FedEx contractor hired and retained as a supervisor a man alleged to be a “known sexual predator” despite reports of sexual harassment and knowledge of the individual’s alleged criminal activity.

May 4, 2021 A lawsuit claims the University of Connecticut’s decision to cut its women’s rowing team reflects a “pattern and practice of sex discrimination.”

May 4, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Louisiana State University has systemically failed to address known issues in its response to reports of sexual misconduct.

April 21, 2021 Walgreens has wrongfully imposed in California a discriminatory “pink tax” on the women’s version of certain hair regrowth treatment products, a class action alleges.

April 9, 2021 A class action claims Uber’s practice of terminating workers on the basis of criminal records is unlawful and disproportionately affects Black and Latinx drivers.

March 19, 2021 Former Highline Construction Group employees claim they were discriminated against on the basis of their national origin and immigration status and are owed unpaid wages.

March 15, 2021 A class action challenges Pacifica, Calif.’s use of municipal ordinances to prohibit individuals from living in their recreational vehicles.

March 8, 2021 Two former New York State Athletic Commission inspectors claim they were discriminated against based on their race and denied proper wages and breaks.

March 3, 2021 A class action alleges IBM has discriminated against health plan enrollees with developmental mental health conditions, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, by routinely excluding or limiting coverage for speech, occupational and physical therapies.

February 16, 2021 A class action claims Fresno State's elimination of varsity women's lacrosse and overall treatment of student-athletes on the team amount to a Title IX violation.

February 8, 2021 A class action claims USAA provides unlawfully disparate treatment to military officers and lower-ranked enlisted personnel who hold auto insurance policies.

January 22, 2021 A proposed class action claims Ryan Homes violated federal law by failing to make its sales offices accessible to individuals with disabilities.

January 13, 2021 A class action claims Amazon.com and Allegheny Direct Logistics have improperly used arrests that did not result in misdemeanor or felony convictions as grounds to deny employment in Pennsylvania.

January 12, 2021 A class action alleges Wells Fargo discriminates against non-U.S. citizens who live in the country legally by denying access to certain financial services and products.

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 18, 2020 A proposed class action claims Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has discriminated against deaf individuals by failing to provide closed captions for free.

December 16, 2020 A class action claims Peloton discriminates against deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals by failing to provide closed captioning for its workout videos.

December 16, 2020 A proposed civil rights class action looks to challenge a MDOC policy under which prisoners are forced to remove religious head coverings for mug shots.

December 11, 2020 A lawsuit claims the NCAA’s academic requirements disproportionately penalize student-athletes at historically Black colleges and universities.

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.

December 4, 2020 A class action alleges New York Life Insurance Co.'s practice of denying jobs to qualified applicants due to past arrests resolved in the individual's favor is discriminatory and disproportionately harms Black applicants.

December 3, 2020 A class action alleges the "country of origin/birth" options given by Amazon.com on its third-party seller application discriminatorily keep people from successfully applying.

November 20, 2020 A former Onia, LLC employee alleges she was discriminated against for taking maternity leave and deprived of proper overtime wages.

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.

November 17, 2020 A former GetWellNetwork, Inc. client support specialist alleges she and other employees were not paid proper overtime wages, and that she was unlawfully fired.

November 13, 2020 A class action alleges West Virginia's Medicaid and state employee health insurance plans discriminatorily deprive transgender people of coverage for essential healthcare.

November 12, 2020 A class action alleges Amazon's failure to protect workers at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed Black, Latino and immigrant fulfillment employees.

November 11, 2020 A class action alleges Hewlett-Packard Company has discriminated against certain workers by terminating their employment solely on the basis of their ages.

November 10, 2020 A lawsuit claims New York’s prison system has unlawfully discriminated against inmates with disabilities by excluding them from eligibility for an early release program.

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.

October 19, 2020 A class action alleges purportedly wheelchair- and scooter-accessible rooms at Concord Hospitality Enterprises' hotels contain beds that are too high off the floor.

October 15, 2020 An ex-employee alleges in a collective action that she experienced gender-based pay discrimination and a hostile work environment at Strategic Financial Solutions.

October 14, 2020 A class action alleges the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services have failed to make the NY-Alerts notification service accessible to blind residents.

October 8, 2020 A class action alleges Discover Bank has imposed restrictions on certain student loan financial services based on a borrower's immigration status.

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."

September 3, 2020 A lawsuit claims that while Deloitte advertises a 16-week parental leave policy, employees who take more than 12 weeks lose their right to return to their former job.

September 2, 2020 Fifty two plaintiffs allege McDonald's has for years systematically discriminated against Black franchisees.

August 27, 2020 Two retired NFL players allege the league has attempted to avoid paying Black former players concussion settlement compensation by way of a battery of neurocognitive assessment tests skewed by race.

August 26, 2020 A class action claims Trans Union has unlawfully included inaccurate, damaging terrorist watchlist information on consumer reports.