Settlement, Title VII, Class Action

Fairness Isn't Optional: Lessons from Google's $50M Bias Case and SCOTUS on Title VII

Holland & Hart LLP on 6/12/2025

In May 2025, Google agreed to pay $50 million to settle a high-profile class action brought by Black and multiracial employees who alleged systemic racial discrimination in hiring, leveling, and promotion. That same month,...more

Kane’s Furniture to Pay Nearly $1.5 Million in EEOC Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 1/14/2025

Settles Federal Suit Company Refused to Hire Women for Driver and Warehouse Positions - MIAMI – Kane’s Furniture, LLC, a Florida-based furniture retail company, will pay $1,482,748.00 in monetary relief and provide...more

Select Staffing to Pay $500,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/26/2024

Staffing Agency Settles Class Claims It Permitted Sex Harassment and Retaliation of Female Farmworkers - FRESNO, Calif. – Real Time Staffing Services, LLC, doing business as Select Staffing, will pay $500,000 and furnish...more

2023 Equal Employment Opportunity Trends in Litigation and Enforcement

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/3/2023

Data from 2022 portends a monumental year ahead for Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) litigation and enforcement. Plaintiffs are filing class-based-employment claims in higher numbers than ever, and class actions involving...more

Leveling the Playing Field: Lessons Employers Can Learn from U.S. Women’s Soccer $24 Million Settlement of Equal Pay Dispute

Fisher Phillips on 3/2/2022

In what is being portrayed as a significant victory for women in sports, the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) announced a $24 million-dollar settlement of a class action equal pay action against the U.S....more

Class Action & MDL Roundup – Fall 2020

Alston & Bird on 1/29/2021

Welcome to the fall edition of the Class Action & MDL Roundup, covering significant decisions and settlements from the third quarter of 2020. In this edition, cosmetics get reused, garbage stinks to high heaven (at least...more

Dollar General Reaches Settlement with the EEOC in Years-Long Background Check Bias Suit

Littler on 11/4/2019

Employers should continue to exercise caution and care in drafting their criminal record screening policies. A recent settlement by Dollar General underscores this point, even though it comes on the heels of the Fifth...more

The 2019 Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Is Almost Here!

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/18/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: Happy Holiday season to our loyal readers of the Workplace Class Action Blog! Our elves are busy at work this holiday season in wrapping up our start-of-the-year kick-off publication – Seyfarth Shaw’s...more

Annual Report on EEOC Developments – Fiscal Year 2016

Littler on 2/27/2017

This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2016 (hereafter “Report”), our sixth annual Report, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant EEOC developments over the past fiscal year. The Report does not...more

Males need not apply: Restaurant chain sued for gender-specific job posting

McAfee & Taft on 6/7/2015

The restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday, Inc. was hit with a discrimination lawsuit in Oregon earlier this year that claimed employees were categorically denied positions with the company based on gender. That, of course, is not a...more

WilcoHess Settles EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit for $215,000

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/20/2013

Female Employees Were Sexually Harassed By Senior Management Official, Federal Agency Charged - TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - WilcoHess, which operates over 400 travel plazas and convenience stores throughout the United States,...more

California Employment Law Notes - July 2013

Proskauer Rose LLP on 7/12/2013

Employee Must Prove That Illegal Retaliation Was The "But For" Cause Of Adverse Job Action Under Title VII - University of Tex. S.W. Med. Ctr. v. Nassar, 570 U.S. ___, 2013 WL 3155234 (2013) - The United States...more

Presrite Corporation to Pay $700,000 and Offer 40 Jobs to Settle EEOC Class Action Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 5/1/2013

Manufacturing Company Refused to Hire Females, Federal Agency Says - CLEVELAND - Presrite Corporation, a manufacturing company headquartered in Cleveland that makes gears and other industrial parts, will pay $700,000,...more

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