A Riverside County Superior Court jury awarded a former employee of Costco a sizeable settlement for his disability discrimination and wrongful termination claims.Jose A. Rivera worked for Costco in 2012. He was a forklift operator who took multiple medical leaves to treat shoulder, knee, and back injuries. At the end of his tenure, Rivera was investigated and...

A Los Angeles jury awarded over $1 million in damages to a former Merle Norman Cosmetics employee for finding that the company retaliated against her after she reported its two top officers for sexual harassment allegedly making sexually offensive remarks to her and a co-worker.The victim, Stephanie Kelley, said that she initially felt comfortable...

An Alberston's manager, Reyna Garcia, filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against the grocery chain for failing to accommodate her high risk pregnancy with light duty.After she became pregnant Reyna Garcia told her store manager that she had a history of pre-term delivery and asked that her pregnancy be accommodated through lighter work. The store manager's response...

A federal judge gave the green light for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) to proceed to trial against JBS USA LLC in an action to accommodate Somali Muslim workers by denying reasonable accommodation requests for prayer breaks.The primary allegations made by the employees stem from management's refusal to change the time of...

A popular wage and hour claim surrounds employee seating at retail stores. In California, employees required to stand for extended periods at work may be able to sue their employers if they can prove the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats. However, what constitutes “nature of work” and “reasonably” are...