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SPLC: Trump Rolls Back Six Decades of Workplace Discrimination Protections in Latest Effort to Dismantle Hard-Won Civil Rights Gains
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Yesterday, President Donald Trump launched a new assault on civil rights and efforts to combat workplace discrimination by signing an executive order rescinding Executive Order 11246, originally issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The order, in place for 60 years and upheld under 10 different presidents — both Republican and Democrat —…
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Notice of Class Action Settlement and Hearing – Georgia Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance
ATTENTION GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CLAIMANTS NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND HEARING Von King, et al. v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. (U.S.D.C. Northern Dist. Ga. 1:21-CV-03082-JPB) is a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of unemployment insurance claimants in Georgia. The case concerns alleged failure to timely issue non-monetary determinations of eligibility…
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Georgia Department of Labor agrees to fix delays in payment of unemployment benefits
A state judge in Georgia signed off on the preliminary settlement of a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Labor over extreme delays in the payment of unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the settlement, the GDOL will make multiple improvements to its current system of processing unemployment claims to deal with the extreme…
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Help is Long Overdue: Georgia residents have suffered extensive delays in receiving unemployment benefits
Their jobs at the trampoline park earned Constance and Jermaine Summers just enough to get by. Working for $12 an hour, the couple could squeeze out enough money to continue renting their tiny mobile home in an Atlanta suburb, along with monthly payments on the eight-year-old car they drove with care. Their children, ages 12…
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EEOC v. Signal International, LLC
Three years after the SPLC filed its lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Signal, accusing the company of discriminating against the Indian guest workers in the David case filed by the SPLC and its co-counsel. The EEOC’s lawsuit also alleges that Signal retaliated against the workers – firing them, detaining them…
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Mairi Nunag-Tañedo et al. v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board et al.
Filipino teachers The SPLC filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 350 Filipino teachers who were lured to teach in Louisiana public schools under the H-1B guest worker program and then cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitive contracts. Nearly all the teachers had to borrow…
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Frantz Pierre v. Seaside Farms, Inc., Employer, And American Home Assurance Insurance Co. C/O AIG, Carrier
Seaside Case Frantz Pierre, a migrant farmworker from Haiti, was denied compensation by the South Carolina Worker’s Compensation Commission after falling and breaking his right ankle outside company housing. He had just arrived at the 400-acre tomato farm owned by Seaside Farms on St. Helena Island when he slipped on a wet sidewalk outside the…
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CATA v. Perez
Guestworker Regulations Case New regulations for the nation’s H-2B guest worker program, enacted in the waning days of the Bush administration, threatened to weaken worker protections and make it easier to replace U.S. workers with temporary foreign labor. The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of immigrant rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging…
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Juana Montano-Pérez, et al. v. Durrett Cheese Sales, Inc.
Durrett Cheese case A dozen Latino workers at a Tennessee cheese factory went weeks without pay and endured an abusive work environment before demanding paychecks from an employer, who then had them arrested, jailed and threatened with deportation. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit charging that Durrett Cheese Sales of Manchester, Tenn.,…
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Fredi Garcia, et al. v. Audubon Communities Management, LLC, et al.
Audubon Pointe Immigrant workers hired to repair storm-damaged apartments in New Orleans were routinely cheated out of wages and subjected to forced labor while living in crowded and dilapidated employer-provided housing. The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the Pro Bono Project and the National Employment Law Project, filed a federal lawsuit on the workers’…