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On May 19, 2020, the EEOC announced that FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. agreed to pay $3.3 million to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC.

The EEOC brought a lawsuit against FedEx on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing package handlers claimi...

On May 4, 2020, the EEOC released a statement that Wayne Farms agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the EEOC on behalf of a class of disabled workers whose allowable absences were capped.

Specifically, Wayne Farms was charged with violating the rights o...

On October 10, 2019, a jury found that Walmart violated the ADA by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf and visually impaired cart pusher and awarded in $5.2 million damages for firing him due to his disability.

A disabled Walmart employee of 16 year...

On December 17, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of a Catholic school and remanded in an employment discrimination action under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Biel v. St. James Sch...

This month, the Second Circuit vacated a district court order concluding that Time Warner’s Territory Sales Representatives (“TSRs”) who spent the majority of their time at work performing non-exempt work were “outside salesmen” and were therefore exempt from the FLSA...

Currently, domestic workers who work within someone’s home are not entitled to minimum wage, mandatory breaks, or overtime pay rates.  Domestic workers are specifically excluded from the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.  However, the City of Seattle...