Brazil Sues EV Giant BYD Over ‘Slavery’ Conditions at Plant May 29, 2025 By Leonardo Lara Brazilian labor prosecutors are suing Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co. and two contractors over allegations of slave labor and...
Google to Pay $28M to Settle Claims It Favored White And Asian Employees March 19, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees...
Citigroup Sued by More Ex-Sales Traders Over 2019 HK Firing March 17, 2025 By Cathy Chan Four former Citigroup Inc. equity sales traders filed wrongful termination claims against the U.S. bank in Hong Kong this month,...
Labor Department Investigating Nvidia, Amazon-Backed Startup Scale AI March 10, 2025 By Kritika Lamba The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI, a data labeling startup backed by tech giants Nvidia, Amazon and...
Justice Department Launches Hostile Workplace Probe into University of California March 6, 2025 The Justice Department opened an investigation into the University of California to determine if the UC system has allowed an...
Musk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email February 27, 2025 By Kurt Wagner and Malathi Nayak Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company...
US Supreme Court Seems Poised to Lower Bar for Reverse Discrimination Suits February 27, 2025 By John Kruzel, Daniel Wiessner and Andrew Chung U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to lean on Wednesday toward making it easier for people from “majority backgrounds,” such as...
EEOC Says It’s Going After ‘Anti-American Bias’ in the Workplace February 20, 2025 By Chad Hemenway The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it will enforce antidiscrimination laws against employers that “illegally prefer non-American workers. In...
Amazon Paying $4M to Settle Lawsuit Alleging It Took Tips From Drivers February 11, 2025 Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that the e-commerce company subsidized its labor costs by...
Amazon to Face Legal Action After Laying Off 1,900 in Quebec February 4, 2025 By Mathieu Dion and Matt Day Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to close all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec and terminate more than...