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Outback Steakhouse will pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit

Outback Steakhouse must pay $65,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of an ...

Security Guards Awarded $90 million in overtime class action lawsuit

American Commercial Security Services was ordered to pay 15,000 security guards $90 million in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit.  According to the lawsuit security guards were required to be ...

$105 million awarded to Starbuck’s baristas in tip-sharing class action lawsuit

Jou Chau  a former LaJolla, California Starbucks barista alleged that Starbucks supervisors were illegally forcing baristas to share tips with them since October 2000.  In court, California Superior ...

Two lesbian LAPD officers awarded $1.25 million following allegations of sexual harassment

Openly gay Los Angeles Police Department officers Linda Gotham and Lynn Whitey, who were both assigned to the Van Nuys division of the L.A.P.D.  claimed that on several ...

Employment Laws That Protect Whistleblowers

If you have witnessed illegal or unsafe conduct in your place of employment, but were afraid to report it to the authorities because you were worried ...

Bicyclist awarded $5.36 Million After Being Hit By A Bus

David Wheeler, 47 was riding his bike across San Francisco’s Lower Great Highway when bus driver, Roy Timmons made a left turn without signaling or stopping at ...