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…

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…

A male sales manager reported sexual harassment. He was transferred. After that, he was terminated. That order of events is what distinguishes this case from the run of workplace matters that end quietly, and it is one of the things a federal court in Texas has now signed off on resolving. The three-year consent decree…

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…

Sutter Roseville Medical Center had a decision in front of it. A staff nurse with a disability had asked her managers for an accommodation, and a lateral move into a position that was already open was one way to give her one. Federal investigators concluded the hospital would not consider any accommodation at all and…

He was an experienced member of the human resources department at the water utility serving the nation’s capital — by the federal government’s account, a high performer with no warnings in his file. In September 2023 he was fired anyway, and government lawyers said the person hired into his place was substantially younger and less…

Picture finishing a full week of container runs out of Newark and opening the pay statement to a negative number — not a small check, but a bill, because deductions for fuel, tolls, parking, insurance, and truck repairs had swallowed the entire week’s gross pay. New Jersey investigators say that is exactly what happened in…

A salary of $684 a week clears one federal threshold used for several white-collar overtime exemptions, but it does not settle the question. Most executive, administrative and professional exemptions require the employer to satisfy a salary-level test, a salary-basis test and a duties test. A job title or a fixed paycheck cannot replace the missing…

Running out of paid leave does not automatically end an employer’s duty to consider disability accommodation. VitalSource Technologies has agreed to pay $150,000 in back pay and compensatory damages after a federal investigation found reasonable cause to believe it fired a hospitalized employee who had requested leave for her absence and recovery. The agreement focuses…

A successful skills test should move a qualified job applicant closer to a hiring decision, not become irrelevant after an employer learns she is pregnant. Dallas Barber and Stylist College has agreed to pay monetary damages and provide other relief to settle a federal lawsuit over exactly that sequence. The government did not disclose the…