Workforce Management
March 3, 2011
The lawsuit seeks class-action status, alleging that there is a pattern of gender discrimination at CIGNA Healthcare. The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensation and punitive damages and a restructuring of CIGNA Healthcare’s workforce “so that females are promoted into higher and better-paying classifications."
A CIGNA Healthcare Inc. manager filed a gender bias lawsuit March 3 that seeks class-action status against the health care provider, alleging the CIGNA Corp. unit gives preferential treatment to men and discriminates against its female employees.
According to Bretta Karp v. CIGNA Healthcare Inc., which was filed in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Boston-based provider contracting manager, who has worked at the unit since 1997, said she was told she was denied a promotion last year because she “came across as too aggressive” in interviews.
Instead, the job was given to a less-experienced male employee, Bill O’Donnell, who subsequently informed Karp that her largest market, Vermont, was being given to a younger, less-qualified male employee.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/section/news/article/cigna-lawsuit-claims-gender-bias.php
Showing posts with label Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. Show all posts
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Employment Discrimination Settlements Surge
Workforce.com
January 7, 2011
A 664-page report analyzes 848 decisions rendered against employers in state and federal courts, including private plaintiff and government enforcement actions. The $346.4 million total for the top 10 in 2010 compares with $84.4 million for the top 10 during 2009.
The monetary value of settlements of the top 10 private plaintiff employment discrimination class-action lawsuits paid or entered into in 2010 totaled $346.4 million, which is more than four times the amount in 2009, according to an analysis released Jan. 5.The largest was the $175 million settlement in Velez et al. vs. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., according to the Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Chicago-based law firm Seyfarth Shaw.
The 664-page report analyzes 848 decisions rendered against employers in state and federal courts, including private plaintiff and government enforcement actions.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/section/news/article/employment-discrimination-settlements-surge.php
January 7, 2011
A 664-page report analyzes 848 decisions rendered against employers in state and federal courts, including private plaintiff and government enforcement actions. The $346.4 million total for the top 10 in 2010 compares with $84.4 million for the top 10 during 2009.
The monetary value of settlements of the top 10 private plaintiff employment discrimination class-action lawsuits paid or entered into in 2010 totaled $346.4 million, which is more than four times the amount in 2009, according to an analysis released Jan. 5.The largest was the $175 million settlement in Velez et al. vs. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., according to the Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Chicago-based law firm Seyfarth Shaw.
The 664-page report analyzes 848 decisions rendered against employers in state and federal courts, including private plaintiff and government enforcement actions.
Full Story: http://www.workforce.com/section/news/article/employment-discrimination-settlements-surge.php
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