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Boston Fed sued by ex-employee who alleges pay discrimination

In a new lawsuit, a former auditor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston claimed she was fired after complaining she was paid less than her male colleagues for years despite stellar performance reviews and a heavy workload. The ex-employee, Cynthi.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsFeb 13th, 2020

Biden DOJ Drops Yale Discrimination Suit After Trump DOJ Found Whites, Asians Treated Unfairly

Biden DOJ Drops Yale Discrimination Suit After Trump DOJ Found Whites, Asians Treated Unfairly After the Trump Justice Department sued Yale following the results of a 2-year Civil Rights investigation whi.....»»

Category: dealsSource: nytFeb 3rd, 2021

Chateau Marmont gave coveted jobs mostly to white people, lawsuit alleges

A former Chateau Marmont employee alleges that mana.....»»

Category: topSource: latimesJan 28th, 2021

Tesla Accuses Employee Who Worked For Company For Less Than 2 Weeks Of Stealing Trade Secrets

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) on Friday sued a former employee over claims of stealing trade secrets. read more.....»»

Category: blogSource: benzingaJan 23rd, 2021

Exxon slides 6% after SEC launches investigation into the oil giant"s asset valuations

An Exxon employee alleges that the company overvalued a key oil and gas property in Texas' Permian Basin, according to the Wall Street Journal. Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images .....»»

Category: personnelSource: nytJan 15th, 2021

Boston Marathon Bomber Sues Feds For Hat "Discrimination", Demands $250k 

Boston Marathon Bomber Sues Feds For Hat 'Discrimination', Demands $250k  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal gove.....»»

Category: dealsSource: nytJan 8th, 2021

‘Massive Adoption’ Conference Organizer Sued After Refund Delays

A lawsuit filed by David Silver on behalf of Massive Adoption attendees alleges fraud, unjust enrichment and breach of contract on the part of organizer Jacob Kostecki after they did not receive refunds for the canceled crypto conference......»»

Category: forexSource: coindeskMay 8th, 2020

Boston Beer CEO makes 62 times more than the company"s median worker

Boston Beer Company’s CEO made 62 times more than the median employee in 2019.  Proxy statements released earlier this month by the maker of Sam Adams beer show that Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) CEO Dave Burwick reported $4.2 million in total compensa.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsApr 28th, 2020

The law denies stimulus checks to Americans married to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. An Illinois man alleges that’s discrimination.

An Illinois man is suing over a provision of the coronavirus relief package that denies $1,200 stimulus checks to Americans who are married to immigrants without Social Security numbers, such as those who a.....»»

Category: topSource: chicagotribuneApr 27th, 2020

Walmart Sued For Wrongful Death By Late Employee"s Estate

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is being sued for its failure to protect workers by the estate of an employee who died of complications caused by COVID- read more.....»»

Category: blogSource: benzingaApr 7th, 2020

Walmart faces wrongful death lawsuit from the family of an employee who died after contracting the coronavirus

Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Walmart is.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderApr 6th, 2020

Houghton Mifflin cuts employee pay, hours by 20%

Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. is moving most of its employees to a four-day workweek and cutting their pay by a corresponding amount, one of several steps the publisher is taking to counteract business losses tied to the coronavirus outbreak......»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 27th, 2020

Feds sue Fifth Third for opening unauthorized accounts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Fifth Third Bank for opening accounts in customers’ names and enrolling them in products without their knowledge. The CFPB filed the lawsuit in federal court in Illinois. It alleges that downtown .....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 10th, 2020

Feds sue Fifth Third for opening unauthorized accounts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Fifth Third Bank for opening accounts in customers’ names and enrolling them in products without their knowledge. The CFPB filed the lawsuit in federal court in Illinois. It alleges that Cincinnati-bas.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 10th, 2020

Fifth Third sued for opening unauthorized accounts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Fifth Third Bank for opening accounts in customers’ names and enrolling them in products without their knowledge. The CFPB filed the lawsuit in federal court in Illinois. It alleges that downtown .....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 10th, 2020

Biogen"s coronavirus cases rise, implicating another Boston health care event

Approximately 26 employees at Biogen, 23 of whom live in-state, have now tested positive for the coronavirus COVID-19 after attending a company meeting late last month — including one employee who then attended another biotech conference elsewher.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 8th, 2020

Will my employee accuse me of discrimination for firing him? Ask HR

There is no basis for treating employees in protected categories differently when deciding if they should be fired for failure to .....»»

Category: topSource: usatodayFeb 18th, 2020

Police body camera maker Axon sues U.S. Federal Trade Commission amid antitrust probe

Axon Enterprise Inc on Friday sued the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in a bid to have potential antitrust litigation heard in a federal district court and not in an internal FTC process, which it alleges is biased toward regulators......»»

Category: topSource: reutersJan 3rd, 2020

Sanofi Genzyme employee identified as woman in apparent murder-suicide

The mother implicated in what District Attorney Rachael Rollins said was “likely a double murder-suicide” in Boston on Christmas Day was a Sanofi Genzyme employee, the company confirmed Thursday. A 40-year-old West Roxbury resident named Erin Pa.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsDec 26th, 2019

Southwest can be sued for bumping passenger who spoke Arabic: U.S. judge

A federal judge on Thursday rejected Southwest Airlines Co's bid to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit by an American of Iraqi descent who was removed from a 2016 flight after another passenger heard him speak in Arabic and feared he might be a terrorist......»»

Category: topSource: reutersDec 19th, 2019

Another fired Google engineer alleges retaliation for union activity

Kathryn Spiers created software that showed a pop-up message when employees on company networks looked at the website of IRI Consultants or when they reviewed a company employee rule book......»»

Category: topSource: washpostDec 17th, 2019