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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...

A recent Ninth Circuit opinion in a case against food delivery company Grubhub promises to complicate the legal landscape for app-based companies after the appellate court ruled California's Prop 22 does...

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"Wages are property under California law and your right to that property vests when you perform the work," - Adam Koshkin

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...

Activistas proinmigrantes dan un paso más en la ampliación de una demanda colectiva que desafía la política de un banco nacional, que le niega servicios a los beneficiarios de DACA (Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia), así como a otros inmigrantes.

En julio de 2020, MALDEF (Fondo Educativo y de Defensa Legal México-Americano) presentó una demanda colectiva contra Discover Bank en un tribunal estatal de California impugnando la denegación por parte del banco de préstamos estudiantiles y otros servicios relacionados a solicitantes que no son ciudadanos estadounidenses o...

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...

We can't celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday on one end of the spectrum and still have in our Constitution of the United States of America an exception that allows for slavery for people who have been convicted of crime," Williams told Law360 recently.

People incarcerated for criminal offenses who work in facilities' maintenance or in state correctional industries to make goods, like eyeglass lenses or license plates, are not constitutionally entitled to minimum wage. This arrangement is a vestige of the 13th Amendment's abolition of...

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...