U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Wet Seal to pay $7.5 million to settle race discrimination suit

2013-05-09 09:13:00

Wet Seal will pay $7.5 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that accused the teen retailer of firing� black employees to present a blond-and-blue-eyed front in its stores, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The...

Iowa jury returns record $240-million judgment in ADA abuse case

2013-05-01 12:58:00

A jury has awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled former workers at a turkey processing plant in Iowa, in what officials on Wednesday said was the largest such judgment in a federal abuse and discrimination case. After a week-long trial, the...

PASSINGS: Raymond L. Telles

2013-03-11 00:00:00

Raymond L. Telles, 97, El Paso's first Latino elected mayor and a former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, died Friday at the Sherman Oaks home of his daughter Cynthia Ann Telles, according to KTSM-TV of El Paso. He had been in failing health in recent...

Dillard's to pay $2 million to settle discrimination suit

2012-12-18 13:08:00

Department store chain Dillard's has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the retailer of breaking federal disability laws by requiring workers asking for sick leave to disclose private medical conditions. The U.S. Equal...

Fry's Electronics to pay $2.3 million in sexting harassment case

2012-08-30 12:12:00

Fry's Electronics will pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit from the federal government -- one of the largest of its kind -- alleging that the retailer retaliated against a supervisor who reported a sexual harassment claim. Ka Lam, a supervisor at the...

Ex-Disneyland worker expected to sue over head scarf, alleged harassment

2012-08-13 05:43:53

Disney says Muslim woman had options in head scarf dispute

2012-08-13 17:22:32

Linda S. Klibanow

2012-03-22 19:47:00

Linda S. Klibanow provides labor and employment law arbitration and mediation services.� For 30+ years Ms. Klibanow has specialized in labor and employment law practice. Following 20+ years with the LA firm Parker Milliken where she represented management...

Supreme Court: Church-state separation extends to religious schools

2012-01-11 16:36:55

What to wear? Skirt, blouse, prosthetic penis?

2012-01-13 16:36:47

L.A. Fire Department settles firefighter's harassment case

2012-01-31 16:35:30

Breast-feeding and pregnant women make waves -- and headlines

2012-02-10 11:07:35

He represents employers in federal and state courts, and in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and other federal and state administrative bodies. Wilkinson has a J.D.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's findings may bolster a separate discrimination lawsuit against the company alleging a high-level policy of bias against its African American workers.

2012-12-03 12:38:09

Ritter handles litigation in state and federal courts nationwide. He regularly counsels high-level executives and trains employees with respect to employment issues.

2012-11-07 09:21:00