Expert Analysis

Flashpoints In Focus: Tips As EEOC Prioritizes Hiring Bias

Two recent cases brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reflect its increased interest in rec... (more story)

Mindful Severance Clause Tips Before NLRB Rethinks Limits

The National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Prime Communications hinted that it may reconsider the leg... (more story)

Latest NLRB Pick Could Put 4 Key Rulings On Chopping Block

If President Donald Trump's recent nominee for the National Labor Relations Board is confirmed, it would restore t... (more story)

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NLRB Member Questions Dues Repayment In Kroger Case

Kroger's Texas unit must compensate a United Food & Commercial Workers local for the dues that it failed to collect from a group of union-represented employees in the South between 2020 and 2022, the National ... (more story)

NLRB Will Rethink Immigration Atty Bargaining Unit

A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recogn... (more story)

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Starbucks Co-Opts Decert. Review Bid After Union Retreats

Starbucks urged the National Labor Relations Board to reject Workers United's bid to withdraw a challenge to a local official's decision denying a decertification election, asking the board to instead use the ... (more story)

Justices Back IAM Pension Fund In Withdrawal Liability Battle

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that multiemployer pension plan actuaries can retroactively change assumptions underlying their withdrawal liability calculations, rejecting employers' argument for time r... (more story)

IBEW Local Says Ex-Officer Isn't Owed Vacation Payout

A New Jersey federal judge has no grounds to compel an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local to pay out a former union officer for unused vacation time, the union argued, asking the judge to to... (more story)

Rehab Center Says Layoffs Not Related To Union Activity

An addiction treatment center urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss claims that it included two employees in a layoff because of their efforts to organize with an American Federal of Teachers af... (more story)

Boston University Seeks To Vacate Award Over RA Work

Boston University is allowed to bar union-represented undergraduate resident assistants from working other campus jobs, the university argued, asking a Massachusetts federal judge to vacate an arbitration awar... (more story)

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Transgender Police Employee Sues Colo. City, Claims Bias

A transgender police community specialist has accused the Boulder Police Department of subjecting him to years of deadnaming, misgendering and bathroom surveillance after he began transitioning, and retaliatin... (more story)

Bad AI Citation Sanction Slashed Amid 7th Circ. Guidance

An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brie... (more story)

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Worker Fired Over Kirk Meme Lands $485K From Fla. Agency

A Florida wildlife agency will pay a former employee $485,000 to resolve her suit claiming it violated her free speech rights by firing her for sharing a meme on social media satirizing the killing of conserva... (more story)

9th Circ. Calls For Redo On Fired DOI Worker's Bias Damages

A Ninth Circuit panel scrapped part of a $1.23 million verdict Wednesday for an ex-U.S. Department of the Interior worker who claimed she was fired because of her age, ruling the lower court miscalculated her ... (more story)

Antivax Health Workers Fight Uphill At 9th Circ. Over Firings

Two Ninth Circuit panelists cast doubt Wednesday on an attempt by a group of former University of Washington employees to revive claims that they were wrongfully fired after they refused COVID-19 vaccination o... (more story)

Va. Will Require Employers To Provide Paid Sick Leave

Workers in Virginia will soon be entitled to paid sick leave after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Wednesday that requires employers to provide five days of paid time off for employees who get sick or ha... (more story)

Packaging Co. Escapes Fired Black Worker's Bias Suit

A North Carolina federal judge tossed a black worker's suit claiming a packaging manufacturer declined to hand her a plant manager position out of racial bias and then tapped a white man at a higher pay rate f... (more story)

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Audit Flags Connecticut Agency's Wage Complaint Backlog

The backlog of complaints about potential labor law violations received by Connecticut's Department of Labor grew from 843 to 980 between May 2023 and July 2024, said a report released Thursday from state gove... (more story)

Instacart Can't Halt NYC Tip, Wage Laws On 2nd Circ. Appeal

A Second Circuit panel refused to pause New York City laws setting minimum pay and other protections for grocery delivery workers while Instacart appeals a lower court order that allowed the rules to take effect.

Home Care Co. Says 6th Circ. OT Ruling Defies Loper Bright

A home care company urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink a ruling affirming nearly $15 million in overtime liability, arguing the panel improperly upheld a U.S. Department of Labor rule barring third-party emplo... (more story)

Logistics Co. Escapes OT Suit After Sole Plaintiff Withdraws

A logistics company defeated a proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay minimum wage and overtime after the suit's only named plaintiff withdrew for personal reasons, leaving the federal court with... (more story)

Avis To Pay $1.8M To End Managers' Overtime Suit

Car rental company Avis agreed to pay $1.79 million to settle a collective action claiming it misclassified operations managers as overtime-exempt and failed to pay them for hours worked over 40 in a week, acc... (more story)

NCAA's Maze Of Eligibility Rules Is Athletes' Latest Target

A deluge of litigation targeting the NCAA's eligibility bylaws for allegedly limiting athletes' compensation has resulted in conflicting rulings from different courts, teeing up the possibility of a U.S. Supre... (more story)

Title Insurer Settles IT Workers' OT Misclassification Suit

A title insurance company agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it improperly classified systems administrators as exempt from overtime pay and fired a worker who raised concerns about the practice, according to... (more story)