Rachel Stone

The Second Circuit on Tuesday gave a pair of white current and former New York State Department of Environmental Conservation workers another chance to sue department leaders for passing them over for promotion in favor of a Black candidate, finding their discrimination claims were strong enough to…

Activision Blizzard Inc. told federal regulators Thursday that an internal investigation revealed nothing to support a California agency’s allegations that the gaming giant’s leadership ignored sexual harassment or that the company’s ranks had a “systemic issue” with discrimination.

Two Christian organizations asked the Fifth Circuit to preserve a trial court ruling that said many religious employers were exempt from certain federal LGBTQ workplace protections and urged the appeals court to go further and endorse additional limits on Title VII’s scope.

The Colorado Supreme Court threw out a challenge Tuesday to the state’s paid family and medical leave program contending workers’ payments slated to fund the program amounted to unconstitutional taxation, ruling the program was legal under state law.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to wade into lawsuits against Gannett and Phillips 66, refusing to address whether they violated federal benefits law by funneling workers’ retirement savings into a single company’s stock.

A civil rights law firm slammed Google’s proposed $22 million settlement agreement aimed at resolving gender and race discrimination allegations, arguing that the New York state court deal undermines the firm’s own race discrimination case lodged on behalf of Black employees nationwide.

Shell Oil Co. urged a Texas federal court to block a group of retirement plan participants from bringing their lawsuit over alleged 401(k) mismanagement on behalf of a sprawling class, claiming the proposed class improperly includes members with contradictory interests.

A Black worker filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania federal court Monday alleging the hospital that used to employ him allowed critiques of his choice of face mask to serve as pretext for racist mistreatment so pervasive he felt he had to quit.

Chemical wholesaler Brenntag North America Inc. has reached a $2.3 million deal to settle a proposed class action brought in Pennsylvania federal court on behalf of workers who said the company let their retirement plan get saddled with overly expensive investment options.

Deloitte workers slapped the accounting giant with a proposed class action in New York federal court, claiming the company allowed two multibillion-dollar retirement plans to get saddled with “astronomical” fees.

A California federal court ruled Tuesday that a Black former Tesla subcontractor can’t appeal a court order reducing a $137 million damages award to $15 million in his case alleging he was harassed and subjected to racial slurs on the job, determining he hadn’t justified immediate appellate review.

Former employees of the country’s largest Coca-Cola bottler asked a North Carolina federal court to certify their proposed ERISA class action claiming the company mismanaged the plan by failing to use the plan’s large size to lower recordkeeping fees.

A Pennsylvania federal court refused to free a group of Unisys executives and human resources employees from a former worker’s lawsuit claiming she’d faced ageist comments and been fired for speaking up, rejecting arguments that the defendants’ didn’t qualify as supervisors under state human rights…

The U.S. Department of Labor released a proposal Wednesday that would undo two Trump administration rules that imposed restrictions on how retirement plans could assess environmental, social and governance factors, such as climate change, in their investment decisions.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reached a $1.6 million settlement agreement with a McDonald’s franchisee and asked the Ninth Circuit to give workers another shot at their suit claiming rap music played at a clothing wholesaler warehouse created a hostile work environment. Here’s a l…

Michelle Yau of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC served as the senior attorney representing participants and beneficiaries of the Triad Manufacturing Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan in an ERISA suit claiming the company overcharged workers for company stock. Her team won its bids to keep the ca…

A California federal court refused to approve a $500,000 settlement agreement between Westco Chemicals Inc. and a proposed class of retirement plan beneficiaries over claims the company violated ERISA by mismanaging the plan, worrying the deal on the table under-compensates certain plaintiffs.

An Alaska federal judge handed the Department of Veterans Affairs an early win in a medical assistant’s lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed by a male colleague and was fired for reporting it, finding that her poor performance, not gender discrimination, sparked her firing.

A group of Christian businesses urged a North Dakota federal court Tuesday to stop the federal government from requiring employer-sponsored health plans to cover gender transition surgery and other procedures they say conflict with companies’ faith.

A Georgia federal court granted the U.S. Army’s bid for a pretrial win Wednesday in an employee’s suit alleging she was passed over for a promotion and wasn’t paid for additional work because she is white, Hispanic and from Chile, determining she hadn’t shown any evidence of discrimination.