Amanda Ottaway

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel Karla Gilbride weighed in Thursday on when it may be considered unlawful to make an employee sit through a workplace training session they disagree with, following two recent, worker-friendly U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.

A Seventh Circuit panel breathed new life into a color discrimination suit by an employee of Wisconsin beef processing plant JBS Green Bay, saying the case should not have been tossed so soon.

Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.

A Seventh Circuit panel breathed new life into a color discrimination suit by an employee of Wisconsin beef processing plant JBS Green Bay, saying the case should not have been tossed so soon.

Worker-side lawyers are buckling up for a challenging four years under President-elect Donald Trump, during which they anticipate a rollback of civil rights regulations and a gutting of federal enforcement agencies. But they also say they're more prepared to fight than they were in 2016. Here, Law360 speaks with the lawyers about major challenges they're anticipating and some of their early plans.

A home heating oil company fielded tough questions at the First Circuit on Tuesday as the company defended its termination of a service technician with a bad knee, with one judge pressing the company's attorney on why the organization hadn't reassigned the worker instead of letting him go.

A home heating oil company fielded tough questions at the First Circuit on Tuesday as the company defended its termination of a service technician with a bad knee, with one judge pressing the company's attorney on why the organization hadn't reassigned the worker instead of letting him go.

A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday attempted to parse distinctions between sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination as a former CVS manager argued that a trial court was wrong to find that a 2022 law limiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims didn't shield her bias suit from dismissal. 

A Roman Catholic diocese wants the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could broaden faith-based exemptions to a New York state law requiring worker health plans to provide abortion coverage, a matter that experts say could have wide implications for religious employers.