20 May
Age discrimination suit costs company $25k
A chicken processing plant that failed to hire a 66-year-old settled an EEOC suit for $25,000.
Archive for May 2010
Paying for employee breaks
A call center paid almost $2 million in back overtime wages when the Dept of Labor found it didn’t pay workers for breaks and misclassified some employees as salaried.
11 May
University hit with back-to-back suits
The University of Louisiana at Monroe settled for over $450k in back-to-back age discrimination suits filed by the same professor
Department of Labor online tool
The U.S. Department of Labor just unveiled an online tool to help employers understand how disability nondiscrimination laws apply to them.