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US federal law prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
Badri Adan sued Delta on October 15, alleging it refused to reinstate him after CBP issued the seal that was the stated reason for his exit. The complaint places the seal 56 days after Delta's own deadline and alleges race and Somali heritage played a role in a manager's delay.
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A Black production group leader at GM's Spring Hill plant sued the automaker on October 14, alleging race and sex discrimination and retaliation. The claims rest on comparisons with white and male peers, and none has been tested in court.
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Circle K told an Indianapolis worker she was fired 16 days after she reported a coworker waving a knife at her, her federal lawsuit alleges. Each absence the company could count against her followed, by her account, a manager telling her to go home, so its attendance defense turns on what its own supervisors said.
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Sequoias Tree Expert hired over 1,900 men for field jobs and employed no more than 12 women in them since 2022, the EEOC alleges in a Texas sex-bias suit. The counts come attached to one rejected applicant's charge, and together they have put the company's whole field hiring record before a federal court.
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EEOC has sued three related Continental Inn companies in Oklahoma, alleging a pregnant front-desk worker was moved to heavier work at the same pay, then fired. Naming all three brings separate entities into one case over what one live-in manager allegedly did.
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