July was officially the hottest month on record, and in the scorching sun, UPS workers have convulsed, fainted and landed in the emergency room with heat-induced kidney failure, interviews and medical records show.Sixteen employees of the delivery company told a major news
Employees of all Texas companies, regardless of size, are now covered by sexual harassment statutes following amendments to Texas’ state discrimination law, which was implemented this month.The Texas legislature has passed a new law expanding protections for employees who suffer
EEOC Charges that San Antonio Critical Care Transportation Company Maintained Hostile Work Environment Based on Sex
Lone Star Ambulance, a San Antonio critical care transportation company, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
“Long COVID” may be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Joe Biden said last Monday. “Many Americans who seemingly recover from the virus still face lingering challenges like breathing problems, brain fog, chronic pain and fatigue,”
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to rescind a Trump-era regulation on joint employment and an impending regulation on independent contractor use, it said in a March 11 announcement. The joint employment rule took effect in March 2020 and
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A Wisconsin jury has ordered Walmart to pay more than $125 million in damages over disability discrimination claims brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a former employee with Down syndrome. (Read a copy
Walmart will pay $410,000 to settle a sex harassment suit brought on behalf of a plaintiff in New York State.
According to the lawsuit, from 2014 to 2018 a male employee of Walmart’s store in Geneva, N.Y., regularly made unwelcome
Pregnancy discrimination continues to be a problem in Texas. Last week, Dallas-based Greenhouse Outpatient Center and its parent company, American Addiction Centers, agreed to pay over $146,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought against the
A former cashier for a Florida Burger King has been awarded over $2 million by a jury on her claims of disability discrimination against the restaurant franchisee. The employee was employed by the corporate franchisee, called Magic Burger, as a
Two days before its effective date, the U.S. Department of Labor has withdrawn a rule that was set to implement a so-called “economic reality” test to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor. The DOL had already
