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Five laid-off workers from the Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab in Livermore, Calif., won a $2.7 million jury award for wrongful termination. The verdict is just the beginning; 125 more laid-off workers are also suing for wrongful firing. The lab, which is operated as a public-private partnership of the University of California and Bechtel Corp. and largely funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, laid off 440 workers in 2008. According to Gary Gwilliam, an attorney for the 130 workers who …

An engineer hired by the city of Cohasset outside Boston is stirring up an already-shaken political beehive with an age discrimination suit. Mark Brennan, 64 years old, lost his job to a much younger man and is fighting to return to work by filing a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. When a new town manager cleaned house after being hired in 2011, he rescinded the contract Brennan had signed with the former town manager. Brennan claims he was …

A former Wisconsin state official won $1.8 million, claiming his boss transferred him to a job 110 miles from his home in order rid the agency of “old white men” and for supporting another worker’s discrimination complaint. Gary Wistrom was an assistant administrator at the state Department of Veteran Affairs. He signed an affidavit in 2010 saying he attended a meeting in which his boss, Ken Black, who is African-American, made a remark about purging “old white men” from the …

Employers Must Consider Telecommuting as ADA Accommodation Employers are not required to allow employees to telecommute, but must consider the possibility for people with disabilities that prevent them from interacting in a standard workplace, according to a recent federal court ruling. The decision came about after a woman sought accommodation in her workplace for her extreme chemical sensitivity. Find Out More…   Telemundo Replaces 50-Year Old Anchor in Hopes of ‘Looking Better’ When Vicky Gutierrez, a 50-year-old reporter for Telemundo, …

Cuando Vicky Gutiérrez, una reportera de Telemundo con 50 años de edad, fue despedida en marzo, ella no se quedó de brazos cruzados. Presentó una demanda por discriminación por edad, señalando que había sido despedida como represalia por haberse quejado sobre las condiciones de su lugar de trabajo. Gutiérrez demandó a Telemundo y a NBC, propietaria de la primera, en una corte del Estado de California en Los Ángeles el 1ro de Agosto, demandando la cantidad de $2,000,000 de dólares. …