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Massachusetts court allows discrimination claims to proceed against UKG in recent legal updates
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A Massachusetts court allowed age- and national-origin discrimination claims against UKG to proceed, finding the employee’s allegations about being placed on a performance improvement plan sufficient at this stage. In a separate case, a judge sanctioned an out-of-state attorney under Rule 11 after finding numerous fabricated, inaccurate, or unsupported citations in court filings, including citations attributed to AI errors. Another court ordered a remand of a Social Security benefits denial because the administrative law judge did not explain why she omitted medical opinions that the claimant could only occasionally balance when assessing residual functional capacity. The state affirmed the retirement system’s refusal to accept a firefighter’s appointment of his wife as an option (c) beneficiary, ruling that his opportunity to choose that benefit ended when his retirement allowance became effective.
Key Points
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The UKG employee’s complaint lists ten claims, including retaliation under Title VII, the ADEA and state law, failure to promote, disparate treatment and constructive discharge, in addition to age- and national-origin discrimination.
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In the sanctions case, the court found that roughly half the citations in the attorney’s opposition contained errors, including a fictitious Westlaw citation, unsupported authority and quotations wrongly attributed to cases. It imposed sanctions under Rule 11 and did not reach the defendants’ other grounds for sanctions.
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The Social Security medical opinions at issue came from Dr. Malin Weeratne and Dr. Malavalli Gopal. The ALJ described their opinions as generally persuasive and used them as the foundation for parts of the residual-functional-capacity assessment, but did not explain why she left out their shared opinion that the claimant could balance only occasionally.
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The firefighter had received long-term injured-on-duty benefits after a severe knee injury in July 2020; his fire chief applied for involuntary accidental-disability retirement in March 2025. The retirement system set the allowance’s effective date as December 28, 2025, the last day he received those benefits, before rejecting his later beneficiary appointment.
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