11th Circ. Backs CBP's Female-Only Search Policy

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed a jury verdict that found the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had a legitimate reason to create three women-only assignments at the Port of Tampa, because of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy mandating same-gender searches of passengers.

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Kroger And Albertsons Win Dismissal In Antitrust Labor Case

A Colorado federal judge on Friday dismissed a grocery store employee's proposed class action against Kroger and Albertsons alleging the pair violated antitrust law through a no-poach agreement to not hire competitor employees during a strike.

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Feds' Shift Doesn't Remove Disparate Impact Risk From RIFs

The Trump administration has disclaimed disparate impact — a theory of liability that is often at the heart of bias claims arising from reductions-in-force — but employers still face legal jeopardy if reductions-in-force have an outsized impact on protected groups, attorneys say.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Closure Highlights Labor Law Stakes

Sunshine Fellows

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's recently announced closure, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied relief from an injun... (more story)

Ambiguity Remains On Anti-DEI Grant Conditions

Valecia McDowell and Tanisha Palvia

Although a recent decision in City of Chicago and City of Saint Paul v. U.S. Department of Justice temporarily hal... (more story)

What To Know As Courts Rethink McDonnell-Douglas

Stephanie Adler-Paindiris, Carolyn Burnette and Ana Shields

Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined the latest opportunity to address the viability of the McDonnell-Douglas ... (more story)

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Arbitrator Wrong To Side Against Layoffs, DirecTV Tells Court

An arbitration award siding with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers over DirecTV's layoff of technicians should be vacated, the company told a Colorado federal court, arguing that the arbitrat... (more story)

Unions Seek To Revive Challenge To Feds' Resignation Offer

A labor coalition urged the First Circuit to revive a challenge to the Trump administration's resignation offer to federal employees last year, defending its right to sue and disputing that two niche agencies ... (more story)

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NLRB Attorneys Target Kinder Morgan Precedent At 9th Circ.

The Ninth Circuit should walk back a six-year-old decision that gave unions a tool to complicate interunion disputes over what work their members perform, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors said, urgin... (more story)

Co. Underpaid JFK Airport Bartenders For Years, Suit Says

An operator of bars and restaurants at John F. Kennedy International Airport underpaid employees for years by unlawfully taking a tip credit, requiring off-the-clock work and undermining seniority protections ... (more story)

Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth

Seyfarth Shaw LLP's employment team locked in an arbitration win for an energy company accused of wage violations, successfully defended Seattle in a pandemic-related battle and shut down a long-running Califo... (more story)

Gov't Wants Voice Of America RIF Challenge Thrown Out

A lawsuit challenging the termination of over 500 Voice of America employees should be dismissed, the U.S. Agency of Global Media told a D.C. federal court, because the deputy CEO of the government-owned broad... (more story)

Boeing Can't Escape Bias Suit Over $12K Bonus

Boeing must face a proposed class action accusing it of excluding workers on long-term disability leave from a $12,000 bonus, as a Washington federal judge denied the company's dismissal motion and remanded th... (more story)

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Background Check Co. Reported Outdated Info, Suit Says

A California background check company "negligently and recklessly" reported consumers' outdated adverse criminal warrant information in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a proposed class action in Co... (more story)

EEOC, Trucking Co. Resolve Hearing Bias Suit For $50K

A trucking company has agreed to pay a former applicant $50,000 as part of a consent decree to end a lawsuit in North Carolina federal court from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that ... (more story)

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EEOC, Law Students End Legal Battle Over Firm DEI Letters

A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing ... (more story)

Pro-Life Groups Say Mich. Law Impedes 1st Amendment

Two Michigan-based anti-abortion organizations are suing several officials, alleging recent amendments to Michigan's civil rights law will force them to hire employees and volunteers who do not share or may op... (more story)

Jury Awards $41K In Legal Assistant's Pregnancy Bias Suit

A New Mexico federal jury has awarded a former legal assistant over $41,000 in damages in her suit alleging that a personal injury law firm forced her to resign after she disclosed her pregnancy.

Funeral Home Segregates Bathrooms, EEOC Tells Court

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused a cemetery and funeral home operator of discriminating against Black employees by denying them access to "preferred" bathroom and break room spaces ... (more story)

Guam Can't Appeal Military Leave Suit Loss At 9th Circ.

A retirement fund for Guam government employees did not meet the standard for an immediate appeal of a ruling that its leave-sharing program violates federal military service protections, a federal judge ruled... (more story)

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Starbucks Gets Mo.'s 'Speculative' DEI Bias Suit Thrown Out

A Missouri federal judge dismissed the state's suit claiming that Starbucks' diversity policies discriminate based on race and gender, finding that its complaint is "devoid of non-conclusory and non-speculativ... (more story)

5th Circ. Backs Texas Farm Bureau In Ex-Manager's OT Suit

The Fifth Circuit found Friday that a former Texas Farm Bureau agency manager failed to prove his old employer owes him overtime pay, saying the ex-employee didn't show that the Farm Bureau knew he was working overtime.

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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse

A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has w... (more story)

Deputies Say Wayne County Flubbed Payroll System Switch

Wayne County, Michigan, is facing a proposed class and collective action from sheriff's deputies alleging they were denied straight-time wages, overtime and earned benefits after the implementation of a new payroll system.

Ex-President Accuses Physician AI Co. Of Fraud, Wage Theft

A data science platform and its top brass persuaded its former chief strategy officer and president to invest $750,000 in the business, only then to not pay him wages, the former employee told a North Carolina... (more story)

NC Restaurants Say They Didn't 'Keep' Tips In DOL Wage Suit

Two North Carolina restaurants urged a federal court Friday to narrow a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they unlawfully kept and pooled tips from front-of-house workers and allocated the funds to tip... (more story)

NY Forecast: Home Aides Ask For Preliminary OK Of $6M Deal

This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider granting preliminary approval to a $6 million class action settlement resolving allegations from home health aides who claimed a provider did not pa... (more story)