Last week, the New York City Council passed the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which amends the New York City Human Rights Law to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of an individual’s consumer credit history. The law defines “consumer credit history” as “any information bearing on an individual’s…

The California-based Chinese food restaurant chain agreed to settle a collective action brought by 155 general managers for close to $3 million.  In Kudo v. Panda Restaurant Group Inc. (09-cv-00712, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York), nationwide general managers claimed that they were improperly classified as exempt from…