Expert Analysis

Employment Immigration Trends And Challenges For 2026

U.S. companies competing for global talent should brace for a turbulent 2026, with greater compliance burdens, hig... (more story)

Top 10 Employer Resolutions For 2026

Heightened regulatory attention, shifting enforcement priorities and increased litigation risk mean that routine w... (more story)

Health, Legal Employers Face Unique Online Speech Hurdles

Employers in the legal and healthcare industries must consider distinctive ethical obligations and professional re... (more story)

Labor More

NLRB Judge Orders Raises For Metal Manufacturing Workers

An Illinois metal manufacturer must provide annual wage increases it previously withheld from a group of workers historically represented by a Teamsters local in a consolidated bargaining unit, a National Labo... (more story)

'Jersey Boys' Producer Slips $1M Pension Tab At 9th Circ.

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a win for a stagehands union pension plan in a dispute with a producer for the jukebox musical "Jersey Boys," saying an entertainment industry exemption to federal benefit... (more story)

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Wilcox Asks DC Circ. To Protect NLRB's Independence

The D.C. Circuit should reverse a decision by two of its judges that would end the National Labor Relations Board's independence if allowed to stand, former board member Gwynne Wilcox argued, seeking to nix a ... (more story)

Exxon Must Hand Over Work Info To Union, NLRB Judge Says

Exxon Mobil violated federal labor law by withholding certain workplace information requested by a United Steel Workers local between 2021 and 2023 and by forbidding two employee union leaders from meeting to ... (more story)

Mich. Hospital Illegally Ousted Union, NLRB Judge Says

A Michigan hospital violated federal labor law by withdrawing recognition from a Service Employees International Union affiliate shortly after the union was certified as representing a bargaining unit, a Natio... (more story)

PG&E Inks $100M Deal To Settle Investors' Wildfire Suit

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co., its brass and its underwriters have reached a $100 million deal ending investor claims over allegedly misleading statements about the company's safety practices a... (more story)

Kaiser Worker Fights To Keep Job Bias Suit Alive

A San Francisco Bay Area employee urged a California federal judge to keep his amended lawsuit alleging that Kaiser Permanente denied his request to switch jobs because of his race, arguing that he has met the... (more story)

Discrimination More

Ex-EEOC Officials Decry Harassment Guidance Rollback

A group of former top officials at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday issued a statement criticizing the Trump administration's proposed elimination of guidance... (more story)

4th Circ. Revives Black Ex-Baltimore Cop's Race Bias Suit

A divided Fourth Circuit on Tuesday revived a Black former Baltimore police officer's suit alleging she was treated less favorably than non-Black officers by being pushed out, saying she offered adequate examp... (more story)

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EEOC Gets Judge's Support For On-Site Visits In Bias Probe

An Illinois federal judge recommended that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission be allowed to conduct site visits at a packaging company the agency is probing for possible hiring bias, rejecting th... (more story)

Cruz Can't Avoid Firm Harassment Case Subpoena, Court Told

A former staffer of Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a Texas federal court to compel responses from the office of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to a subpoena for information related to the staffer's sexual harassment case aga... (more story)

KFC Inks Deal To End EEOC Sex Harassment Probe

KFC will pay $200,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into claims that the company ignored sexual harassment at a Florida restaurant, the EEOC said Tuesday.

6th Circ. Backs Nuclear Plant In Fired Worker's ADA Suit

The Sixth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit from a former nuclear power plant worker who claimed he was fired for seeking fewer night shifts to manage his diabetes, saying he failed to discredit the compa... (more story)

EEOC Would See Funding Drop Under New Spending Package

Federal lawmakers unveiled a proposed spending package Monday that would cut about $20 million from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's budget, while also limiting the agency from conducting any... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Amazon Nears Deal With Flex Drivers In Tip Skimming Suit

Amazon and a group of Flex delivery drivers told a Seattle federal judge Tuesday they've reached an agreement in principle to resolve a 2021 putative class action accusing the e-commerce giant of withholding t... (more story)

Tyson Foods Tries To Pare Down Meat Packer's Wage Claims

Tyson Foods Inc. is asking a Washington federal judge to throw out the bulk of a proposed wage and hour class action, arguing that the plaintiff's amended complaint is too short on details to proceed.

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Cracker Barrel Asks Justices To Avoid Collective Opt-Ins Fight

Cracker Barrel urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up an appeal of a Ninth Circuit decision that only Arizona employees could opt in to a collective suit over tipped wages, arguing that there isn't a wide... (more story)

3rd Circ. Backs DOL In Home Healthcare Wage Case

The Third Circuit upheld a $1 million judgment against home health company WiCare Home Care Agency LLC Tuesday, finding it was within the secretary of labor's power to write regulations keeping "third-party em... (more story)

NYC Hospital Network, Co. Fight Class Cert. In Wage Suit

NYC Health and Hospitals workers weren't subject to a single policy that violated federal law, the hospital network and a staffing company told a New York federal court, urging it to reject the workers' bid fo... (more story)

Employment Trio Joins Ogletree In California, Oregon

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that the labor and employment firm has added three experienced shareholders to bolster its efforts in California and Oregon.

Food Distribution Co. Misclassified Supervisors, Suit Says

A food distribution company misclassified supervisors as salaried employees exempt from overtime even though they did not meet the legal requirements to satisfy the carveout under federal wage law, according t... (more story)