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Outten & Golden partner Ossai Miazad recently settled a hiring discrimination case against The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) on behalf of David Rodriguez, a DACA recipient who applied for an internship at P&G, and others similarly situated to him.  The case sought to address P&G’s policy and practice of screening out internship and entry-level applicants who are non-United States citizens unless they held a long-term work authorization.

The case was filed as a putative class action in federal district court in...

Class action targets criminal history screening policies that reject qualified job applicants

Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, hires thousands of new workers across the U.S. each year. But according to a lawsuit recently filed by Outten & Golden LLP and Youth Represent, the retail giant also rejects many qualified applicants because of their criminal histories – part of a uniform hiring policy that disparately impacts Black and Latinx candidates in...

SAN FRANCISCO –  Outten & Golden has joined MALDEF in expanding a class-action lawsuit challenging a national bank’s policy of denying loans to DACA recipients and other immigrants because of their citizenship or immigration status, according to documents filed in federal court last week.

The lawsuit alleges that Discover Bank limited the access of non-U.S. citizens such as DACA recipients to student, personal and home mortgage and equity loans in violation of federal and state civil rights laws, including 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the California Unruh Civil...

For the fifth year in a row, Law360 has selected Outten & Golden LLP as an "Employment Practice Group of the Year," and the only firm dedicated to representing employees ever included on the list.

"In a year often called unprecedented, this truly...

A job applicant to New York Life filed a class action alleging that the company denied employment to her because of arrests that never resulted in conviction. The complaint specifically alleges that New York Life's uniform policy and practice, to deny applicants with such arrests, "flout[s] New York law, treating individuals as guilty of crimes for which they were never convicted, and inverting the fundamental U.S. legal principle that an individual is innocent until proven guilty."

New York City and State make it an unlawful discriminatory practice to deny employment to an...

Two NYC job applicants to Fresh Direct, one who had already performed the work of the job for approximately five months, filed a class action lawsuit against the grocery delivery service alleging that they and others who were otherwise qualified to work for FD were illegally rejected based on the companies criminal history screening process in violation of the New York City Human Rights Law  FreshDirect has “instituted a sham process for evaluating applicants’ criminal histories,” it says.  The complaint alleges violations of New York State and City civil rights laws requiring an...