Expert Analysis

Ambiguity Remains On Anti-DEI Grant Conditions

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

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

Limiting Worker Surveillance Risks Amid AI Regulatory Shifts

With workplace surveillance tools becoming increasingly common and a recent executive order aiming to preempt stat... (more story)

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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)

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)

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UAW, Volkswagen Reach Tentative Deal At Chattanooga Plant

The United Auto Workers and Volkswagen reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract covering more than 3,000 workers at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which if ratified would become a landmark initial... (more story)

Boston Globe Accused Of Skipping Pension Fund Payments

A union pension fund has filed a lawsuit against the Boston Globe in D.C. federal court, accusing the news organization of failing to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours employees worked.

Calif. Forecast: 9th Circ. To Hear Utility District Bias Args

In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a discrimination case against a utility district. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.

2nd Circ. Won't Stop NLRB Nursing Home Case

The Second Circuit on Thursday refused to halt pending National Labor Relations Board proceedings against a nursing home and a group of affiliated facilities accused of federal labor law violations, finding th... (more story)

CWA Backs NLRB Order For Bargaining At Nexstar TV Station

Nexstar's objection to a National Labor Relations Board order requiring it to bargain with a news station in Rochester, New York, rests on a "painful misunderstanding" of labor law, the Communications Workers ... (more story)

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Ousted Conn. Public Defender Chief Loses Bias Suit

The commission responsible for Connecticut's public defenders did not violate TaShun Bowden-Lewis' constitutional or legal rights when it removed her as chief of the office in 2024, a state Superior Court judg... (more story)

Paymentus Settles Fintech Atty's Age Bias Suit Ahead Of Trial

Billing company Paymentus Corp. has settled a former in-house attorney's retaliation, age discrimination and wrongful discharge lawsuit less than two weeks before the case was set to go to trial, court records show.

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11th Circ. Says Alleged Slurs Back Worker's Harassment Suit

A split Eleventh Circuit panel on Friday reinstated a Black truck salesman's harassment suit claiming a supervisor called him "boy" and that his colleagues regularly called nonwhite customers racial slurs, rul... (more story)

Tesla Applicants Fight Uphill To Keep H-1B Visa Bias Suit Alive

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to tossing a proposed class action alleging Tesla discriminates against American workers by favoring allegedly underpaid H-1B visa holders, telling counsel rep... (more story)

Colo. Judge Hears Closings In Gender-Affirming Care Halt Suit

Patients of Children's Hospital Colorado who want a state court to reinstate their gender-affirming medical care told a judge Thursday that the court's enforcement of state law and the rule of law is their onl... (more story)

Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial inte... (more story)

Law Firms Back NFL In Arbitration Clause Suit Before Justices

Two nonprofit public interest law firms are pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit opinion finding the National Football League's arbitration process unenforceable, saying the opinion encou... (more story)

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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)

FLSA Does Not Bar Claim Waivers, Wash. Judge Says

The Fair Labor Standards Act does not categorically bar a contract's release of an employee's claims, a Washington federal judge ruled, finding that a former pharmaceutical manufacturing company worker's sever... (more story)

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Elevance Fights Nurses' '11th Hour' Class Expansion

Health insurer Elevance told a North Carolina federal court that it should deny a former nurse's attempt to expand a class definition in her overtime-exempt misclassification lawsuit, arguing that the reworked... (more story)

DOL Must Pay Retaliation Suit Atty Fees, Farm HR Head Says

The U.S. Department of Labor should pay attorney fees and expenses that a human resources manager at a Tennessee pork farm incurred to defend the agency's retaliation suit, the manager told a federal court Thu... (more story)

Red Lobster Wants Worker's Wage Suit Sent To Arbitration

A Red Lobster worker must pursue her Illinois wage claims in arbitration rather than federal court because she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she was rehired, the restaurant chain said Thursday.

Aircraft Service Co. Denied OT, Full Pay, Ex-Worker Tells Court

An aircraft services company stiffed workers on overtime and pay for all hours worked, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action complaint filed in Texas federal court.

Neuroscience Co. Withheld Wages, OT From COO, Suit Says

A neuroscience company and a related entity paid their former chief operations officer late or not at all and cheated her out of overtime, the former executive said in a proposed class and collective action in... (more story)