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.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
EEOC sued Kroger's Fred Meyer on September 30, alleging a Vancouver store fired two pregnant workers who asked for bathroom access. The complaint places the exposure with store managers who kept issuing attendance warnings after both women said their absences were pregnancy-related.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
EEOC sued Walmart on September 30, alleging a deaf Fredericksburg, Virginia stocker went six years without an interpreter at mandatory daily briefings. Its complaint pleads each year and each supervisor as a separate failure, so the case argues the duty to accommodate renews every shift.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Vanguard faces a federal suit from a data science manager who says a new boss turned four years of strong reviews into a PIP and a firing within eight months. The claim rests on that sequence, so the reviews a company kept before a manager change can become the plaintiff's baseline.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Wagner Equipment tested a painter back from knee surgery on a 100-pound lifting standard it had already cut to 50 pounds, the EEOC alleges. The suit asks whether a return-to-work test has to match the job as it is actually done, with its lifting equipment and co-workers.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45