A 14 year long lawsuit centered around allegations of sexual harassment appears to be over after the company sued by workers agreed to settle. According to reports, Carrols Corp., a franchisee of the popular fast food restaurant Burger King, has agreed to pay a group...
Month: January 2013
Former employee sues Minnesota hospital for cover-up
A Hennepin County woman accused Woodwinds Health Campus of destroying key documents that could have harmed the hospital's reputation. The federal lawsuit alleges that the officials of the hospital were involved in a cover-up, purportedly hiding incidents. These...
Dillard’s Inc. to pay $2 million for discrimination
The national retail chain Dillard's Inc. will be paying a whopping $2 million and will commit to extensive changes companywide to settle a class action disability discrimination lawsuit. The disability discrimination lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Demoted Minneapolis firefighter awarded $420,000 as compensation
A federal jury has awarded a demoted Minneapolis firefighter $420,000 and yet-to-be-determined attorneys' fees for a 2009 demotion from the position of deputy chief by the fire chief at the time of her employment. The jury agreed that she was wrongly demoted because...