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The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and
employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how
what s happening in Washington, D.C. could impact your
business.
Biz Groups Are a No on PRO. As the
Buzz mentioned last week, the U.S. House of
Representatives is teeing up a vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of
2021 (H.R. 842/S. 420) to occur sometime next week. In
anticipation of the vote, this week the Coalition for a Democratic
Workplace sent a letter opposing the legislation to members of
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Allied Universal Settles EEOC Suit Over Pregnant Guard s Firing
Law360 (March 8, 2021, 3:36 PM EST) Security company Allied Universal agreed to pay $110,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought on behalf of a security guard who the agency said was given tougher duties and was eventually fired after becoming pregnant.
U.S. District Judge Lance Africk in the Eastern District of Louisiana signed off on a consent decree Friday under which U.S. Security Associates Inc., which does business as Allied Universal, will shell out $25,000 in back pay and $85,000 in damages to former employee Terrica Bailey.
Another plaintiff says he was told to ignore sexual harassing comments
Lawsuit accuses circuit court clerk of using office for background checks for tenants
Circuit Court Clerk also accused of permitting illegal commissary to operate
Two fired Rutherford County Circuit Court Clerk employees contend in a lawsuit they lost jobs for complaining about discrimination and sexual harassment.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of plaintiffs Nicholas Trail and Stephen LeQuire by attorneys Michelle Howser of Murfreesboro and Jesse Ford Harbison of Nashville, accuses Melissa Harrell, the elected Circuit Court Clerk, of violating the Tennessee Human Rights Act.
Harrell committed and condoned discriminatory and retaliatory acts against employees, asserts a lawsuit filed in Rutherford County Chancery Court.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is headed to the courtroom via Zoom for a remote trial on April 5, 2021 as the defendant.
The case, Scott Kingston vs. International Business Machines Corp., case number 2:19-cv-01488, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, moves to trial after Judge Marsha Pechman denied IBM’s motion for a summary judgment on all of Kingston’s claims, on March 1.
Kingston alleges he was terminated by IBM in retaliation for protesting IBM’s decision to cap the commission of a Black employee on a large deal weeks after the company paid a white employee in full on a similarly sized deal.