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Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated against employees who took protected leave, including parental and ...
Microsoft has reached a $14.4 million settlement with California’s Civil Rights Department over claims the company discriminated against employees who were on parental and disability leave.
In February 2007, Microsoft filed a lawsuit at the International Trade Commission claiming that Alcatel-Lucent infringed its patents. [106] There is a second case in San Diego where Microsoft is asserting that Alcatel-Lucent infringes 10 of its patents, and yet another case in Texas where each alleges that the other is infringing its patents. [107]
Microsoft to pay $14.4-million settlement after California accused it of retaliation and discrimination against workers who take parental or disability leave.
This is detailed in several books about Microsoft, including Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. [citation needed] A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in 1992 representing 8,558 current and former employees that had been classified as "temporary" and "freelance", and became known as Vizcaino v.
On November 1, 2001, the DOJ reached an agreement with Microsoft to settle the case. The proposed settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies and appoint a panel of three people who would have full access to Microsoft's systems, records, and source code for five years in order to ...
On September 10, 2014 ZDNet reported that Microsoft was held in contempt of court after refusing to hand over foreign data. [9] [10]On December 24, 2014, the Seattle Times reported that the IRS sued former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Craig Mundie, Jeff Raikes, Jim Allchin, Orlando Ayala and David Guenther in an effort to compel them to testify in Microsoft's corporate tax audit.
Total settlement: $60 million. Deadline to file claim: May 18, 2023. Requirements: Must have been an unlimited data customer between Oct. 1, 2011 and June 30, 2015.