Tag: employment

CTA derailment leaves 4 workers unemployed, 14 passengers injured

Legal News for Illinois Train Accident Attorneys. A CTA train derailed leaving 4 workers unemployed and 14 passengers with minor injuries. CTA derailment results in 14 minor injuries and termination of employment for crew. Chicago, IL—A CTA train derailed on December 12, 2009, which resulted in the loss of employment for the four workers who […]

Missouri Attorney General settles $500,000 wrongful termination lawsuit!

Wrongful termination lawsuit against Missouri Governor settled by lawyers. Kansas City, MO(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–A settlement between former employee of the Office of the Governor, State of Missouri, Scott Eckersley and the Missouri Attorney General was announced on Friday. Employment law attorneys representing Eckersley, in his wrongful termination claim filed in court against former governor’s office Matthew Blunt […]

U.S. federal lawyers sue Utah company after firing National Guard’s man

Utah company sued by federal attorneys after wrongful termination of enlisted man. Salt Lake City, UT(JusticeNewFlash.com)–A former Ogden company and its owner found themselves named in a federal lawsuit in a Utah court. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal action against company, Synapse Data and Telecom Inc., and the corporation owner, […]

Ohio’s Nationwide slashes 35,000 employees’ benefits

35,000 Nationwide workers’ vacation benefits eliminated. Columbus, OH(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio informed their 35,000 employees their vacation benefits would be drastically changed and reduced. As reported by Columbus Business First, Nationwide informed their workers in an April 8, 2009 memo they […]

Female LAPD officer recovers $2.3 million sexual harassment jury verdict

California federal jury returns $2.3 million verdict to female LAPD officer. Los Angeles, CA (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–On Wednesday, a federal jury returned a $2.3 million verdict to a Los Angeles police officer who filed a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Officer Melissa Borck and her employment law lawyers initially filed […]

Dump truck wreck kills Indiana state highway worker

Evansville Indiana Department of Transportation worker hit and killed by dump truck. Evansville, IN (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–An Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) http://www.in.gov/indot/ worker, who was operating a lighted sign on I-164 on Tuesday was struck by a dump truck driver and killed. The Indiana Star reported, state employee Mark T. Shephardson, a 49 year-old Newburgh man, […]

$1 million New Jersey whistleblower jury verdict

UPS to pay $1 million New Brunswick jury verdict to Flemington employee. Newark, NJ (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Michael Battaglia, a 51 year-old, UPS worker filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit after his night shift supervisors demoted him in October 2005. His anti-discrimination lawyer specializing in whistleblower litigation cases filed the lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court in New Brunswick. […]

Ford’s United Auto Workers accept union contract concessions

Ford U.A.W. workers accept new contract placeing pressure on G. M. and Chrysler. Chicago, IL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Fifty-nine percent of production workers and 58 percent of skilled-trades workers voted in favor of accepting concessions to their 2007 contracts according to the United Auto Workers (U.A.W) on Monday. As reported by Reuters, the new agreement between the U.A.W. […]

February reports 651,000 U.S. jobs lost!

4.4 Americans jobless since December 2007 with unemployment rate at 8.1 percent. West Palm Beach, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday the national unemployment rate, in February, reached the its highest mark in 25 years. Another 651,000 workers lost their jobs in February and the unemployment rate reached 8.1 percent as […]