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• Dispute illustrates broader job worries around pregnancy bias
• Elite companies offer paid leave. Some women fear taking it

Two years ago, Tania Mirchandani, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president in Los Angeles, told her boss she was pregnant with her third child. He was skeptical she could balance a large family with her demanding job, she recalled. That’s “a lot of mouths to feed,” she quoted him as saying.

Mirchandani, a 15-year Goldman Sachs veteran, figured that her supervisor, of all people, would have understood her dilemma. John Mallory, then a Goldman partner and rising star...

A former employee of family-run turkey processor Zacky Farms has filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming the company failed to give workers the required notice of layoffs prior to announcing it was closing.

Meanwhile, Zacky officials have said they tried to provide the workers as much notice as possible before deciding to shut down two weeks ago.

News of the lawsuit comes amid an announcement Wednesday the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fresno, laid off employee Karen Vance said the company violated the California Worker...

A class of Computer Sciences Corp. systems administrators are looking at about $30 million in unpaid overtime and damages after a Connecticut federal judge resolved a series of remedies questions left open after their December jury win, the workers’ attorneys said Tuesday.

In the most notable portion of her Friday ruling, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton said CSC must pay the 1,000-strong class years of overtime at one-and-a-half times their regular wages rather than the lower fluctuating workweek rate, which starts at just under half their regular pay for extra time and drops from...

A California appeals court decision sinking Winston & Strawn LLP's arbitration agreement with a former attorney suing the firm for discrimination will encourage "for hire" lawyers and others outside firms' power structures to fight contracts that seek to block legal disputes from reaching the courtroom, experts say.

The First Appellate District holding in favor of former Winston patent lawyer Constance Ramos, who opposed having her gender bias case transferred to an arbiter, should also encourage law firms to rein in overly aggressive arbitration provisions, both for legal and business...

Outten & Golden LLP is ranked Tier 1 Nationally for Litigation--Labor & Employment, and Tier 1 in New York City for Employment Law--Individuals and Litigation--Labor & Employment in New York City.

Outten & Golden LLP has been selected once again in multiple categories in U.S. News & World Report's Best Lawyers, a US-based peer review. For 2019, the firm is ranked Tier 1 nationally for Litigation—Labor & Employment, and Tier 1 in New York City for Employment Law—Individuals and for Litigation—Labor & Employment, and Tier 2 in Washington, DC Metropolitan area for Employment Law – Individuals.

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In October of 2014, Nathan Kay applied for a job as a pilot at L3 Technologies, a Pentagon contractor that helps conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions around the world.

Mr. Kay had spent more than 10 years in the Washington Air National Guard, and had flown similar missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. A friend at L3, then known as L-3 Communications, indicated that a chief pilot was interested in his résumé. But when months went by without even a rejection — and after consulting with his friend — Mr. Kay concluded that L3 was discriminating against him because he was an active guard...

For many residents of the Bay area, Silicon Valley has become a glorified frat house. Drugs, ambition, sex and money have created a toxic “bro” culture in which women at best, feel sidelined, and at worst, feel abused.

“[The men] think they are above the law because they think they are changing the world,” says Emily Chang, journalist and author of bestselling book “Brotopia”.

Silicon Valley is still reeling from Chang’s book, which was published earlier this year, in which she claims to expose the tech industry’s “secretive, orgiastic dark side”. “From drug-fuelled orgies to the freewheeling...

Outten & Golden LLP partner Juno Turner is in the news for her efforts to get out the vote.

Facebook has been under steady fire over data breaches, misuse of personal data, improper reporting of video ad metrics, fake news and the use of its platform to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

So, what if the social network had a relatively easy way to put out one of its smaller fires: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges filed against it and 10 advertisers last month by the American Civil Liberties Union, Communications Workers of America and workers’ rights law firm Outten & Golden over the use of its targeting capabilities to deliver employment ads solely to male...