Bank of America and subsidiary Merrill Lynch have settled a gender and race bias suit from two Black financial advisers who claimed the companies supported policies that handed more opportunities to white, male workers, according to a New York federal court filing.
Pay transparency litigation in Washington state highlights the enforcement challenges associated with defining who is a job applicant and offers lessons to other jurisdictions on how to balance these laws' goals with facilitating compliance, attorneys say.
A California federal judge blocked the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to fire probationary employees and stopped several agencies from heeding its directives, but he declined to order them to rehire the workers they've already let go.