Employment
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California-based chain Burgers & Beer will pay $150,000 and implement changes to its hiring practices in order to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the company refused to hire male servers, marking the EEOC’s third settlement this week… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A class of Big Lots workers in California has asked a Golden State federal court to give an initial green light to a $7 million deal aimed at ending claims the company didn’t pay the workers for time they spent waiting to leave stores after clocking out… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The president of the United Automobile Workers, Gary Jones, resigned on Wednesday after the union moved to oust him from his post amid a bribery and accounting scandal, according to an attorney for the ex-labor leader… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Pryor Cashman LLP has reached a deal to end an age discrimination suit brought by a former associate who said he was wrongly sacked after 18 years, according to an order a New York federal judge filed Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal court gave an initial green light Monday to a $2 million settlement between the company that operates Disneyland and workers who claimed they were shorted on overtime and incentive pay, though the judge expressed reservations about the attorney fees requested… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 