The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on July 28 that it had won a jury verdict in the kind of case most people never picture the agency bringing. A federal jury in Fayetteville, Arkansas found that a hospital allowed two of its doctors to strip a male surgical technician of most of the work…

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority had written policies covering performance notification, progressive discipline and internal appeals. When it fired a member of its own human resources department in September 2023, federal regulators say it followed none of them. That gap between the rulebook and the firing became part of an age discrimination…

More than 100 employees of an Idaho Falls engineering and research company asked to be excused from a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy. Some asked on the basis of a sincerely held religious belief. Others asked on the basis of a disability. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found reasonable cause to believe those requests were unlawfully…

The U.S. Labor Department may already be holding back wages for a worker it could not locate after an investigation. Its free Workers Owed Wages tool lets people search by current or former employer to see whether money connected to a Wage and Hour Division case may be waiting. This is narrower than a general…

Five workers at three affiliated Austin car dealerships will share $925,000 under a federal court-approved settlement of sexual-harassment and retaliation claims. The money and the dealerships’ required workplace changes resolve the case before trial, so the alleged conduct should not be described as a final court finding. For employees elsewhere, the case is a reminder…

Six workers at a San Diego deli have now received roughly $83,000 apiece after a federal investigation found they were paid a flat $100 for days that often lasted 11 hours. The recovery shows how quickly unpaid minimum wages and overtime can grow when a pay practice continues week after week. The payment is specific…