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Activision Blizzard Agrees to $54 million Gender Discrimination SettlementLos Angeles, CA Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay over $50 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by California's civil rights agency. Female employees of the video game maker claimed they were constantly faced with sexual harassment, and the company employed few women in leadership roles. If they were in leadership roles, they earned less salary, incentive pay and total compensation than their male peers.
California Labor Commissioner’s Office reaches $5.5M Settlement for Wage Theft LawsuitLos Angeles, CA Thanks to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office (LCO), 148 caregivers who worked at Adat Shalom Board and Care Inc. will finally be compensated for California Labor wage theft allegations. A $5.5 million settlement has been reached after a lengthy investigation into wage theft found that Adat Shalom’s six adult residential care facilities in the west San Fernando Valley paid its caregivers less than minimum wage. Some live-in caregivers were actually paid less than $3 per hour.
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PFAS-Mesh-Talc-ERISA-3M Qui Tam-CA Labor? MetLife to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $4.5 MillionNew York, NY On November 20 MetLife Group and a group of participants in the MetLife 401(k) Plan agreed to settle an ERISA breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit for $4.5 million. In their amended class-action complaint, plan participants accused plan fiduciaries of failing to act solely in the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries by including proprietary investment options in the plan when similar, cheaper and better-performing investments were available in the marketplace.
DuPont, Corteva and Chemours to Pay State of Ohio $110 millionWashington County, OH The chemical manufacturers of “forever chemicals”, namely DuPont, Corteva and Chemours, have reached a $110 million settlement with the state of Ohio. The PFOA lawsuit was filed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, claiming that PFOA, the manmade chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, was released in the air and water from DuPont’s Washington Works facility in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and just across the border from Ohio’s Washington County.
Amazon Retaliates against Women Demanding Fair PaySeattle, WA In
Wilmuth v. Amazon, three professional research team leaders filed a proposed class and collective lawsuit against Amazon.com, Inc. for its established practice of paying women less than men for similar work. It’s the usual gross, dreary, demeaning stuff that women deal with at work. But the Amazon researchers also claim that the company retaliated against them for raising the issue of gender pay discrimination. The retaliation they describe may amount to a form of wrongful termination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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