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NYU denied injured technician's accommodation then fired her, lawsuit alleges
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (456+ words) A manager allegedly said the heavy assignment was meant to 'test' her injured shoulder A hospital denied a long-serving technician's injury accommodation, returned her to heavy lifting, then fired her days after she objected, a lawsuit alleges. NYU Hospitals Center…...
Restaurant loses overtime appeal after failing to document cash payment
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (231+ words) A restaurant paid cash to settle overtime, but never said what for An Alberta restaurant paid a departing cook thousands of dollars in cash to settle unpaid overtime, but could not say what period the payment covered. Its appeal over…...
CEO's discrimination costs Freshslice $85,000 in damages
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (465+ words) Executive's years of ethnic, religious slurs led to constructive dismissal A British Columbia human rights tribunal has found that a company's chief executive subjected an employee to years of derogatory remarks about his ethnicity and religion, then stripped him of…...
Ontario company held liable for harassment after skipping human rights hearing
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (497+ words) It skipped the hearing entirely, but the tribunal still had plenty to say An Ontario environmental remediation company skipped its own human rights hearing entirely, and the tribunal pressed ahead anyway. The result was a mixed verdict: liability for harassment…...
UPS supervisor sues, alleges company stalled his accommodation then fired him
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (216+ words) His file said he retired. He says he never did - and got no severance A UPS supervisor of two decades says the company left his disability accommodation hanging for months, then quietly ended his job. The former operational supervisor sued…...
IBM ordered to pay nearly $900,000 for wrongful dismissal, litigation conduct
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (331+ words) The case, Adelman v. IBM Canada Limited, serves as an important reminder that wrongful dismissal claims can quickly evolve beyond severance disputes and into complex, high-cost litigation cases. The employee, Jason Adelman, worked for IBM and its predecessor company for nearly…...
Fair Work backs employer that fired worker over altered document
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (302+ words) She called it a reflexive correction. Her employer reached a very different conclusion A Melbourne insurance brokerage sacked a worker after she edited a document she then filed in her own case against the company. The Fair Work Commission has…...
Hong Kong court accepts unchallenged wage claim in employee compensation case
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (249+ words) He never showed up in court, so his ex-employee's wage claim stood unchallenged A Hong Kong hotpot operator who ignored the case must pay a chef HK$184,903, Deputy District Judge Walker Sham ruled on 7 August 2026. The District Court awarded the…...
Lone male coordinator alleges sex bias, retaliation at Nova Southeastern University
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (217+ words) The only man in his department says the same rules never applied to his female coworkers A male administrative coordinator says a Florida university treated him worse than female coworkers because he is a man, then retaliated when he complained....
Paylocity fired engineer over diabetes, disability lawsuit alleges
1+ week, 1+ day ago (301+ words) He asked for an hour of rest here and there. The company pointed him to leave instead A software engineer says Paylocity, the HR and payroll software company, fired him after diabetes left him needing occasional rest during the workday....