Kaiser Permanente Agrees to Settle Americans with Disabilities Act Claims and to Improve Access for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Patients
Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide a qualified sign…
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Prestige Care and Prestige Senior Living to Pay $2 Million to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit
Prestige Care, Inc., Prestige Senior Living, LLC, and their affiliates will pay $2 million and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment…
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Virginia Bill Seeks to Clarify Workers’ Rights for Pregnant, Lactating Employees
For employees who are pregnant or lactating, their workers’ rights are sometimes viewed as vague and can be difficult to discern for them and business owners alike.
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Justice Department Settles with Staffing Company to Resolve Immigration-Related Discrimination Claims
The Department of Justice announced that it reached a settlement with Chancery Staffing Solutions LLC (Chancery Staffing), a legal staffing company headquartered in New York, New York, also known as…
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Ex-Employee Sues Massachusetts Nursing Home over Termination
A former nursing assistant at the Center for Extended Care at Amherst has sued the nursing home for wrongful termination after she was fired days after raising concerns over the…
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Arizona Nurse Sues Hospital after New Times Story on Medical Pot Ban
Valley ER nurse Timothy Costello is suing one of the biggest hospital systems in Maricopa County for its ban on employee medical marijuana use, just over a week after Phoenix…
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EEOC Sues Yale New Haven Hospital for Age and Disability Discrimination
Yale New Haven Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, violated federal law by adopting and implementing a discriminatory “Late Career Practitioner Policy,” the US Equal Employment…
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Arkansas Health System Sued by EEOC for Age Discrimination
White River Health System, Inc., a provider of healthcare services throughout North Central Arkansas, violated federal law by removing a class of employees from their positions because of their age,…
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Violent assaults, insufficient care: Inside the chaos of SF General’s emergency room
The day Corinna Heyn-Jones was brutally attacked in San Francisco General Hospital’s emergency room, she said, the unit was functioning as it often does: understaffed and overwhelmed.
Read More »NJ Nursing Home Harassment Suit, Which Included Claim of Sexually Suggestive Food, Settled for $55K
A nursing home employee who claimed in a harassment and retaliation lawsuit that a supervisor presented her with a plate of food that resembled male genitalia and that another employee…
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