Final Rule on Wage Protections for Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens Delayed
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Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates
On May 12, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced the following nominations out of committee for full Senate consideration:
Jennifer Abruzzo, to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), by a party-line vote of 11 to 11;
Seema Nanda, to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor by a vote of 14 to eight; and
Jocelyn Samuels, for a new term on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, by a vote of 14 to eight.
$4.8M Judgment in Labor Trafficking Case Against Maui Pineapple May 19, 2021
The EEOC brought the case to combat labor trafficking as a civil rights violation under Title VII.
The EEOC initially filed a Title VII lawsuit in 2011 in U.S District Court in the District of Hawaii against Maui Pineapple Ltd., Global Horizons Inc., and other defendants (
EEOC v. Global Horizons, Inc., et al.).
In 2015, the district court entered a default judgment against Maui Pineapple and Global Horizons, a labor contractor, after finding them liable for national origin and race discrimination, awarding over $8.1 million to 54 Thai employees who worked at Maui Pineapple.
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that $4.8 million has been recovered to satisfy a judgment in a national origin and race.
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Allentown Trucking and Aviation Services Company Forced Employee to Quit To Escape the Abuse, Federal Agency Charged
PHILADELPHIA Pinnacle Logistics, a trucking and aviation services company in Allentown, Pa., will pay $45,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to conciliate a sexual harassment charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
Following an investigation, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that Pinnacle Logistics failed to stop the sex-based harassment of a worker and that the harassment was so intolerable that she was forced to quit.
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Panera Franchisee Can t Saddle EEOC With $1.1M Atty Fee
Law360 (May 19, 2021, 1:31 PM EDT) A Florida federal judge rejected a Panera and Applebee s franchisee s push to make the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pick up the tab for $1.1 million in attorneys fees the company incurred defending a suit over worker arbitration pacts.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Tuesday turned down a bid for attorneys fees and nontaxable costs from Doherty Enterprises Inc., saying the EEOC s suit wasn t frivolous and the agency hadn t acted in bad faith during discovery.
The arbitration agreement at issue which the EEOC said blocked workers from filing discrimination charges with the agency was ultimately updated, and the.