Author: Brian Lund
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An Illinois headlight plant denied pregnant workers their lifting limits, a federal suit says
A lifting restriction can determine whether a pregnant factory employee keeps earning a paycheck or is pushed off the schedule. Federal officials say an Illinois automotive-lighting manufacturer refused such limits for a class of workers. The lawsuit is pending, and the company’s liability has not been decided. Four plants are named in the federal allegations…
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The EEOC is suing KLLM over sex discrimination against female student truck drivers
A truck-driving academy is not merely a classroom when enrollment controls access to a paid career. The federal government says KLLM used training and pay practices that treated female student drivers differently from men. The case is newly filed, so the allegations have not yet produced a judgment or settlement. The complaint reaches training conditions…
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$250,000 goes to female staff the EEOC says an Arizona senior living company failed to protect from residents
A resident’s behavior does not erase an employer’s duty to protect employees from workplace harassment. That is the principle behind a $250,000 settlement involving women who worked at an Arizona senior living community. The payment resolves a federal lawsuit, while the conduct described by the government remains an allegation rather than a trial finding. The…
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Miss the September 14 deadline and your share of SunTrust’s $240 million overdraft settlement stays with the bank
This settlement does not pay eligible people automatically. A Georgia customer who ignores the notice gives up the payment, releases the covered claims anyway, and leaves the account’s allocation with SunTrust. September 14 is therefore a real money deadline, not an administrative suggestion. The class is narrower than “anyone charged an overdraft fee” The lawsuit…
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62,893 checks worth $2.7 million are in the mail to people who worked for Angi’s Handy app
Picture a penalty that lands on you because somebody else failed to press a button. A customer books work through an app, tells the worker not to come, and then never properly cancels the job in the system. According to the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General, Handy Technologies charged gig workers…
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ECU Health hospitals go out of network with UnitedHealthcare on August 8, Medicare Advantage included
UnitedHealthcare has extended in-network access to ECU Health’s hospitals through August 7. The day after that, those hospitals become out of network for the insurer’s commercial, Medicare Advantage and Individual Family Plan members across eastern North Carolina. What makes this one unusual is that the contract is not ending in a single moment. Different parts…
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California utility customers get $36 to $49 off their August and September bills
Nothing about California’s Climate Credit got bigger this year. The same money is going to the same households; it is simply landing on different bills. Regulators pulled the residential electric credit off the mild months and put it on August and September instead, and for customers of the state’s three largest utilities that credit is…
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Utah homeowners 67 and older can claim up to $1,412 by September 1
Most property tax breaks pay the same amount to everyone who qualifies. Utah’s circuit breaker does not. The benefit is read off a bracket table, so the credit a household receives is decided entirely by where last year’s income landed, and the distance between the top bracket and the bottom one is the distance between…
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Banks and credit unions took more than $12 billion in overdraft fees last year with no federal cap
A lot of households came out of 2024 believing overdraft fees had finally been capped by federal rule. A rule really was written, finalized and published, with an effective date sitting on the calendar. It never took effect. There is still no federal limit on what a bank or credit union may charge you when…
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$250,927 goes to more than 400 workers a staffing company denied paid sick leave
Paid sick leave costs nothing to think about and a great deal to go without. If you are paid by the hour and you have none, a fever on a Tuesday stops being a health question and turns into an arithmetic question about rent. That is the gap at the center of a District of…
