Amazon sued over 'punitive' handling of employee absencesAmazon is facing a class action lawsuit in New York, accused of penalising warehouse workers with disabilities through harsh absence polici...
13 Nov, 2025, 08.58 AM IST
US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled ridersThe department also said Uber and its drivers illegally charge cleaning fees for service animals, and cancellation fees to riders who are d...
12 Sep, 2025, 07.11 AM IST
US sues Uber, alleges disability discrimination, impermissible surchargesThe United States government has filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies. The suit alleges that the ride-sharing company discriminates ag...
11 Sep, 2025, 11.20 PM IST
Southwest Airlines pays $100 for inconvenience to two blind passengers left behind at New Orleans airportSouthwest Airlines faces criticism after a distressing incident. Two visually impaired passengers were left stranded at a New Orleans airpo...
11 Aug, 2025, 07.36 AM IST
Despite Donald Trump order, abandoning DEI could land companies in legal troubleU.S. companies reducing workplace diversity efforts due to Trump's directive may face increased discrimination lawsuits, as such policies h...
24 Jan, 2025, 09.46 PM IST
Lenovo fires employee for urinating in hotel's lobby, faces $1.5 million lawsuitA Lenovo computer salesman has found himself in a swirl of trouble, fired from his job after he says a bladder condition forced him to reli...
26 Aug, 2024, 04.33 PM IST
MNC employee fired for peeing in hotel lobby, seeks Rs 12 crore from companyA former Lenovo salesman, Richard Becker, is suing the company for $1.5 million after being fired for urinating in a Times Square hotel lob...
26 Aug, 2024, 02.56 PM IST
Elon Musk ban on remote work at X beats disability bias claim for nowThe lawsuit claims X violated a federal law requiring employers to accommodate workers' disabilities. Elon Musk said in a memo to the compa...
22 Aug, 2024, 09.48 AM IST
Ex-TikTok executive claims she was fired for reporting sex, age biasKatie Puris said in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that her 2022 firing was the culmination of a series of incidents where sh...
09 Feb, 2024, 07.48 AM IST
Biased bots? US lawmakers take on 'Wild West' of AI recruitmentDerek Mobley, a Black man with a finance degree, has filed a class action lawsuit against human resources platform Workday Inc, alleging th...
20 Oct, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
Biased bots? US lawmakers take on 'Wild West' of AI recruitmentThe question of what "responsible AI" might look like goes to the heart of an increasingly robust push-back against the unrestricted use of...
19 Oct, 2023, 11.43 AM IST
Elon Musk's X can't beat lawsuit claiming age bias in layoffsUS District Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday said the plaintiff in the proposed class action, John Zeman, had provided enough evidence that t...
30 Aug, 2023, 08.01 PM IST
Tutoring firm settles US agency's first bias lawsuit involving AI softwareThe commission, which enforces workplace bias laws, in 2021 launched an initiative to ensure that AI software used by U.S. employers compli...
11 Aug, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
Twitter beats disabled worker's lawsuit over layoffs, for nowUS District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland in a ruling issued late on Friday decided that plaintiff Dmitry Borodaenko, a former Twitter e...
08 May, 2023, 10.05 PM IST
Twitter must notify laid-off workers of pending lawsuit, judge rulesU.S. District Judge James Donato in a three-page order on Wednesday said that before asking workers to sign severance agreements waiving th...
15 Dec, 2022, 11.16 PM IST
Disabled employee sues Twitter over Elon Musk's ban on remote workDmitry Borodaenko, a California-based engineering manager who said Twitter fired him this week when he refused to report to the office, fil...
18 Nov, 2022, 03.00 PM IST
Can you tell which of these job interview questions are illegal?While every state has different laws regarding job interviews - some specifically prohibit certain questions, while others merely prohibit ...
05 Sep, 2014, 05.01 PM IST