Allegations include demotions after each leave, stalled pay, and HR closing his complaint
Bloomberg LP is facing a federal lawsuit from a long-tenured engineer who says the company punished him for taking medical and family leave.
Jordan "JD" Hudgens, a senior software engineer who worked at Bloomberg for nearly a decade, filed suit on March 5 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hudgens v. Bloomberg LP, Case No. 1:26-cv-01829). The case has not yet been decided, and all claims remain allegations at this stage.
According to the filing, Hudgens took four leaves of absence between 2021 and 2025. Two were to care for his son, who has a serious and rare liver condition that required multiple hospitalizations and two attempted transplants. The remaining two were to address his own mental health. Hudgens alleges that after each leave, Bloomberg chipped away at his role, his reviews, and his pay.
The trajectory he describes will sound familiar to HR professionals who manage leave and return-to-work processes. Before his first leave, Hudgens says he was effectively leading an approximately 16-person engineering team and serving as the point person for initiatives critical to Bloomberg's platform re-architecture. When he came back, those duties had been handed to a less experienced colleague he had helped hire and train. After his second leave, he was moved into a QA-focused managerial role. After his third, he was stripped of his remaining oversight...
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