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Adverse action taken against an employee for reporting discrimination, filing a regulatory charge or taking part in an investigation. Retaliation is actionable under US employment law.
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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Stellantis engine-plant worker sues FCA US, saying a safety-lock rule kept him from training that a white colleague began without locks. The case will test how consistently supervisors applied that prerequisite and whether HR's internal records match what it told him.
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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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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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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.
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