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- Fired City Employees Saratoga agrees to pay two former employees a $130,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-8-07)
- Worker Standards Pioneer Hi-Bred International pays $81,000 settlement in migrant workers' wage dispute. (Dec-6-07)
- Meal Breaks Rady Children's Hospital agrees to pay current and former employees $2.7 million for unpaid meal breaks. (Dec-6-07)
- Religious Beard Burger King awards former employee $15,800 settlement for religious discrimination and wrongful termination. (Dec-5-07)
- Sheriff-Elect Termination Pittstown pays former police officer $125,000 settlement for wrongful termination. (Dec-5-07)
- Wrongful Termination Chesapeake pays former city inspector $25,000 settlement after firing him without just cause. (Dec-5-07)
- Police Discrimination Milwaukee pays police officer $15,000 settlement for false arrest and racial harassment. (Dec-5-07)
- Executive Vice President Tanner & Haley pay employee $300,000 settlement for unpaid compensation and expenses. (Dec-4-07)
- Public Defender Carbon County pays former employee $525,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-4-07)
- City Hall Employee City of Utica pays former employee $75,000 settlement after firing and arresting him on harassment and theft charges. (Dec-4-07)
- School House Master City of Lowell awards former high school employee $1 million settlement for gender discrimination. (Dec-4-07)
- Wage Violations Biovest International Inc. pays $300,000 settlement to former employees for failing to pay wages and vacation time. (Dec-3-07)
- Laid-Off Workers Westling Manufacturing pays $120,000 to former employees. (Nov-30-07)
- Senator Pension City of Houston pays state senator $423,000 settlement after forcing him to quit his city employee job and therefor lose his pension. (Nov-29-07)
- Professor Retaliation University of Oregon pays former employee $500,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-28-07)
- Racial Discrimination New York city pays former Deputy Warden $125,000 racial bias settlement. (Nov-28-07)
- Gender Harassment Collegeville/Imagineering Enterprises and Rubie's Costume Co. pay $299,000 settlement to female employees who were harassed my managers. (Nov-27-07)
- Salary Structure City of Peoria pays over $2 million for breaching previous settlement terms. (Nov-27-07)
- Undercover Police Officer Minneapolis awards cop $4.5 million personal injury settlement after being shot by two other officers. (Nov-27-07)
- Postal Worker Harassment City of Medford awards former employee $258,000 settlement for verbal abuse and retaliation. (Nov-26-07)
- Police Chief Termination Manitowoc pays former city employee $80,000 settlement after being fired. (Nov-24-07)
- Inmate Safety McLennan County pay former employee $30,000 wrongful termination and retaliation settlement after reporting illegal and dangerous conditions. (Nov-22-07)
- City Employees New Orleans and Louisiana pay $3.4 million racial discrimination settlement. (Nov-22-07)
- Employee Harassment Leo Gentry Wholesale Nursery pays former employee $65,000 gender harassment settlement. (Nov-22-07)
- Employee Harassment Grimmway Farms and Esparza Enterprises pay cleaning worker $175,000 gender harassment settlement. (Nov-21-07)
- Sergeant Termination Athens County pays former employee settlement after being fired for political reasons. (Nov-19-07)
- Clerk Discrimination University Place pays former city employee $40,000 racial bias settlement. (Nov-19-07)
- Cancer Discrimination Tucoemas Federal Credit Union pays former employee $3.1 million settlement. (Nov-18-07)
- Township Manager Former Hilltown Township's manager awarded $20,000 severance settlement. (Nov-18-07)
- Sanitation Overtime Raleigh agreed to pay city workers $60,000 settlement. (Nov-17-07)
- Building Inspector Harassment Hayward Police Department agrees to pay former city employee $473,000 gender bias settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Teacher Discrimination Salem-Keizer School District pays former teacher undisclosed age and gender bias settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Doctor Termination Massena Memorial Hospital pays $1.5 million unfair termination settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Employee Reassignment Chillicothe City Schools pays former director of personnel $30,000 settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Principal Tenure Phillipsburg School District awarded former principal $58,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Corrections Discrimination Niagara County Sheriff's Department employee $86,000 wrongful termination and racial bias settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Principal Removed Beaufort County School District pays former principal $60,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Police Severance Former Police Chief awarded $39,000 severance settlement after being fired for misconduct. (Nov-13-07)
- Bankruptcy Discrimination Fired Hanceville Police Chief awarded $125,000 bias settlement from city. (Nov-13-07)
- Wrongful Termination Campbellsville Water Co. pays former employee $208,000 settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Employee Gender Discrimination Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company pays employee $4.4 million gender bias settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Athletic Director Severance University of North Dakota pays former employee $154,000 resignation settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Toxic Brine Cargill Salt pays $228,000 fine for violating California state water pollution laws. (Nov-11-07)
- Nurse Pregnancy Discrimination Kaiser Foundation Health Plan pays employee $180,000 bias settlement. (Nov-8-07)
- FedEx Drivers FedEx Corp. pays $253,000 settlement to five employees for unfair labor practices. (Nov-8-07)
- Assistant Superintendent Marshall Independent School District pays former employee $100,000 age discrimination settlement. (Nov-6-07)
- Banana Pesticide Six Dole workers awarded $3.3 million after becoming sterile while working at a banana plantation in Nicaragua. (Nov-6-07)
- CEO Severance Federal Trust Bank pays former CEO James Suskiewich $2.6 million settlement. (Nov-6-07)
- Legally Blind Red Bluff pays former City Councilman Larry Stevens $520,000 settlement for ADA violations. (Nov-5-07)
- Opacity Emissions Steel Dynamics Inc. pays EPA $263,000 fine for violating opacity limits of the Clean Air Act. (Nov-5-07)