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A courier for the meal delivery startup led the complaint

One of an estimated 250 Munchery employees laid off when the San Francisco startup shut down abruptly last week has filed a class action lawsuit against his former employer. In a legal complaint filed in US District Court, lawyers on behalf of ex-Munchery courier Joshua James Eaton Philips argue that the company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, known as the WARN act, which states that companies of more than 100 employees must give them 60-day notices before mass layoffs.

“Losing one’s job is a hardship in...

National law firm is the only honoree with a practice dedicated to representing employees exclusively.

Outten & Golden LLP, known and respected for its representation of employees, executives, and partners across the spectrum of workplace issues, has been named a 2018 "Practice Group of the Year" in employment law by Law360. This is the third consecutive year in which the firm has earned the honor.

"We are grateful to Law360 for again recognizing our tremendously talented attorneys and the successful outcomes we've secured for our valued clients," said Adam T. Klein, Outten & Golden's...

A Becton Dickinson subsidiary doesn’t have to face a lawsuit alleging it inadvertently violated federal law by rejecting an older applicant for an in-house lawyer job because he had too much experience, a federal appeals court said in a ruling that pares back anti-bias protections.

The 8-4 decision by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago changes course from an April opinion by a three-judge panel of the court and avoids creating a circuit split with the Eleventh Circuit over the scope of federal age discrimination law.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act...

The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday filed a court action against Oracle for underpaying non-white male employees by as much as US$400 million.

"Oracle suppressed starting salaries for its female and non-White employees, assigned them to lower level positions and depressed their wages over the years they worked for Oracle," states an amendment to a complaint the DoL's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs initiated against the company in 2017.

Based on OFCCP's preliminary analysis, "Oracle's method of compensating employees for their work resulted in losses of more than $400...

A new breed of high-tech hiring tools aimed at helping employers sift through growing applicant pools can unfairly weed out women and minorities, putting unwary businesses at risk of being caught up in an anticipated wave of bias litigation.  

Experts say these tools, which use algorithms to predict whether an applicant will be successful in a given job, can perpetuate existing sex- or race-based gaps in employers’ workforces or create new ones. The tools haven’t led to any suits yet, but experts say that's likely to change.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling that transportation workers, regardless of whether they're employees or independent contractors, are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act chipped at the shield some employers have long relied on to insulate themselves from legal attacks, experts say.

The high court, which in recent years has blessed arbitration agreements in a series of decisions, handed workers a rare win with a unanimous 8-0 decision broadly interpreting the meaning of "contracts of employment" for the purposes of a Federal Arbitration Act exemption covering transportation workers....

Law requires California utilities give advance notice of a bankruptcy filing

PG&E Corp. was prompted to disclose its intent to file for chapter 11 by a new California law that includes a novel provision requiring utilities give employees a 15-day heads-up before seeking protection and freezes for at least six months the utility’s ability to potentially layoff workers after filing for bankruptcy.

The law, which took effect Jan. 1, is intended to provide employees, creditors and state regulators “the maximum amount of transparency” about a coming bankruptcy, said Paul Payne, spokesman for...

Founder Wayne Outten will cede managing partner duties to class action litigator Adam Klein, as part of a succession plan the employment firm dubbed “O&G 2.0.”

Outten & Golden, a leading plaintiffs-side employment law firm, has elevated longtime class action litigator Adam Klein to become its managing partner after years of stewardship from founding partner Wayne Outten.

The law firm announced the leadership transition in a statement Monday, saying Klein assumed his new role Jan. 1. Although Outten is leaving the managing partner position, he will move into a chairman role at the firm he co-...

National employee-side law firm's succession plan includes the elevation of Adam T. Klein to Managing Partner and Laurence S. Moy to Deputy Managing Partner and the hiring of Sloane Levy as Chief Operating Officer.

Outten & Golden LLP, a national employee-side law firm with four offices across the U.S., today announced several changes as part of its "O&G 2.0" succession plan.

Adam T. Klein, who founded the firm's Class & Collective Action practice group, was named Managing Partner effective January 1st.  Mr. Klein concentrates his practice on prosecuting employment discrimination and wage-and...

The civil rights firm Outten & Golden has hired a veteran transgender-rights litigator at a “critical inflection point,” as LGBT cases abound across state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jillian Weiss, joining the firm as of counsel in New York, will assist workers who face alleged discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Weiss previously served as executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.

Weiss had worked with Outten & Golden on several amicus cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District...