Facebook’s vow to block ads on its platform from being programmed to discriminate based on demographics ended a string of lawsuits against the social network, but companies that allegedly used the site to weed out older applicants for jobs aren’t …
Eight former employees at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store filed a race and age discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the high-end store and its corporate parent, alleging they were subjected to a hostile work environment and unfairly fired. The suit, …
A Florida teenager’s Facebook post has cost her father an $80,000 legal settlement. The father sued Miami’s Gulliver Preparatory School for age discrimination after he lost his job as headmaster. The school agreed to settle the case with Patrick Snay …
A jury has awarded more than a dozen firefighters a total of $3.7 million in a case where the San Francisco Fire Department was accused of age discrimination. The San Francisco Chronicle reports jurors voted 9-3 Monday in favor of …
Federal employees and applicants filed 16,974 complaints of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2011, down about 3.5 percent from 2010. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) annual report, retaliation was the most frequently alleged basis of discrimination …
A former executive at Kentucky’s Courier-Journal has sued the newspaper, contending he was terminated because of his age. Mike Huot’s lawsuit says he was 62 when he was told last September that his job as vice president of circulation, which …
A million-dollar lawsuit by an actress who claims her job prospects were damaged when she was outed online as a 40-year-old has run smack into conventional wisdom: If Sandra Bullock, 47, and Helen Mirren, 66, are getting steady work, bias …
A former Terrebonne Parish employee has filed suit in federal court claiming she was fired because of her age. The suit says Barbara Dupre, 42, worked in the Terrebonne Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, from January 2002 to …
A federal court jury has awarded a former Lexington city utility employee nearly a half-million dollars in his age discrimination lawsuit. The decision came Monday in the 2009 suit filed by Anthony Brunt, who The Jackson Sun reported it was …
A 52-year-old Houston woman is suing after what she says was an order from her boss to dye her shoulder-length gray hair. Sandra Rawline, who was an escrow officer and branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, said she was …