EPL News
Hiscox Study Reveals Top States for Employee Lawsuits
An typical California employer has nearly an 18 percent chance of finding its business on the receiving end of an employment liability charge, according to a new study, which reveals that this is 42 ...
Obama Meeting With CEOs to Boost Hiring of Long-Term Unemployed
President Barack Obama will meet with a group of chief executive officers today who have agreed to make sure their companies do not rule out hiring people just because their résumés show they have ...
EEOC Charges Drop in 2013
For fiscal year 2013, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received less than 94,000 new private sector charges of employment discrimination, marking the lowest level since 2009. The ...
U.S. Supreme Court Weighs In on Wage-and-Hour Case over Paid Time for Donning & Doffing Gear
Steel workers who do their jobs wearing flame-retardant gear tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that they should be paid for the time they spend "donning and doffing" such items ...
Lawsuit Against Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Gets Class-Action Status
A U.S. judge accorded class-action status to a lawsuit that alleges broad conspiracy among major Silicon Valley companies to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other's employees, a ...
Court Favors Abercrombie in Okla. EEOC Suit Over Hijab
A federal appeals court has dismissed claims by an Oklahoma woman who says she was not hired by retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because her headscarf conflicted with the company's dress code, which ...
U.S. Judge Tosses Pregnancy Bias Lawsuit Against Bloomberg LP
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit accusing Bloomberg LP of discriminating against dozens of pregnant employees, saying the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's mishandling of the case ...
EPLI in Southern California Playing ‘Hard’ to Get
Employment practices liability in California is a growing concern for insurers, agents and employers, and that concern has some carriers ramping up rates dramatically or quietly pulling back from the ...