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Appeals panel: Feds can't sue Walmart for stopping pregnant workers from taking light duty jobs under injured workers program
Walmart's Temporary Alternate Duty policy let injured workers that would otherwise qualify for workers' comp transfer to lighter duty jobs while they healed, but didn't open the program to pregnant workers. The EEOC sued, claiming discrimination -
Walmart, Home Depot, other retailers could be roped into massive class action vs Clearview over face scrapes
Tech firm Clearview has opposed the move to add more defendants, saying it is "bad faith ... transparent gamesmanship" by plaintiffs' lawyers -
Class action: Walmart improperly tracks warehouse workers using their 'voiceprints' without consent
The lawsuit accuses Walmart of violating workers' rights at its four Illinois 'fulfillment centers' under the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act. -
Cook County judge: Family of worker who died of COVID can't sue Walmart
Walmart won dismissal of the lawsuit, arguing the case belongs in Illinois' workers' comp system, not in court. -
Walmart inks deal to pay $10M to settle workers' handprint scan class action; Lawyers to get one third
Workers could be eligible to receive $460-$756 each under the deal announced in Cook County Circuit Court to end a class action filed against Walmart under the Illinois biometrics privacy law. -
Asthma sufferers can't use ADA to sue Pritzker for mask mandates retailers cited to deny entry for no masks
A federal judge has dismissed Gov. JB Pritzker from a class action brought by two people with chronic asthma who claimed the mask mandate was used by retailers to discriminate against people with disabilities who can't wear face masks. -
Walmart: Lawsuit over worker's COVID death belongs in worker's comp system, not Cook County court
Walmart has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a worker at its Evergreen Park store who died from COVID-19. -
Walmart sued over COVID-19 death of worker at Evergreen Park store
The lawsuit is believed to be first wrongful death lawsuit filed in Illinois in connection with a COVID-19 death. -
Cook County judge: Walmart, other employers can't look to IL constitution for protection from biometrics class actions
Illinois’ state constitution offers no escape valve for employers facing a blizzard of class action lawsuits under the state's biometrics privacy law, a Cook County judge ruled, rejecting an attempt by Walmart to sidestep one of those lawsuits. -
Walmart accused of negligence after woman allegedly slipped on liquid substance at Bedford Park store
A woman is suing Walmart for alleged negligence. -
Federal judge grates Parmesan cheese class actions, pans deceptive marketing claims
A federal judge in Chicago has shredded, for now, a block of class action lawsuits that piled up last year against Kraft, Walmart, Target, the parent company of Jewel Food Stores and others over the contents of their grated Parmesan cheese, saying he did not believe the plaintiffs could prevail in asserting the containers of “100 percent” cheese were deceptively marketed. -
Say cheese: Class actions begin to pile up vs Kraft, Walmart over Parmesan cheese contents
Class action lawsuits against Kraft Heinz and Walmart have begun to accumulate in the aftermath of a February news investigation turned up evidence of wood-based fillers in the companies’ grated Parmesan cheese products. -
Where's the pork? Woman slaps Walmart with class action, claims store brand pork and beans contains no actual pork
Just as actress Clara Peller famously asked “Where’s the beef?” in a series of memorable 1980s television commercials for fast food chain Wendy's, now a Schaumburg woman is demanding in a federal class action lawsuit to know where the pork is in Walmart’s store brand product labeled “Pork and Beans.”