A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was denied pay raises because of her religious beliefs. Grecia Echevarria-Hernandez filed a discrimination lawsuit April 26 against Las Vegas-based AffinityLifestyles.com, also known as Real …
A lawsuit accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of violating U.S. discrimination law by hiring a “stunningly low” number of people over the age of 40 to maintain a youthful culture has been filed in San Francisco. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court, said the London-based accounting company does virtually all of its recruiting for entry-level jobs on college campuses to stock its …
Hundreds of black and Latino job applicants have accused Denver of discriminating against them by giving them an employment test that was not validated and that favored non-minorities. The city admits that the test discriminated in eight of 21 job classifications, so the federal trial that began Monday mostly revolves around the amount of damages claimed by more than 900 plaintiffs. Plaintiff …