Expert Analysis

5 Action Steps For Employers Facing 27 Pay Periods In 2026

In 2026, some employers may have 27 pay periods, instead of the usual 26, which can cause budgeting and compliance... (more story)

AI-Driven Harassment Poses New Risks For Employers

Two recent cases show that deepfakes and other artificial intelligence‑generated content are emerging as a powerfu... (more story)

Algorithmic Bias Risks Remain For Employers After AI Order

A recent executive order articulates a federal preference for a minimally burdensome approach to artificial intell... (more story)

Labor More

Yellow Corp. Defends Pension Fund Deals Amid Objection

Insolvent trucking company Yellow Corp. defended its settlements with 15 multiemployer pension funds to resolve about $7.4 billion worth of withdrawal liability claims after major shareholders objected that th... (more story)

NLRB Urges DC Circ. To Back Picket Dispute Ruling

The National Labor Relations Board has urged the D.C. Circuit to enforce a final board order finding that a California cleaning contractor violated federal labor law by threatening and firing janitorial employ... (more story)

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Honeywell Defends Deals Against NLRB Challenge

Honeywell has urged a National Labor Relations Board judge not to find that its employment and severance agreements stifle worker organizing, saying its provisions are narrower than those the board has declare... (more story)

Union, Shipping Co. Challenge NLRB Ruling In Union Dispute

The International Longshoremen's Association and a shipping company urged the Ninth Circuit to vacate a National Labor Relations Board that had purportedly resolved a jurisdictional dispute between two other u... (more story)

AFL-CIO Backs Flowers Foods Driver In High Court Arb. Case

A Flowers Foods distributor is exempt from federal arbitration because even though he delivered goods locally, his work was part of an uninterrupted stream of interstate commerce, AFL-CIO told the U.S. Supreme... (more story)

John Roberts Welcomes John Roberts To Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court advocates have tips galore for staying calm at a debut argument, including diligent preparation, mindful breathing and treating the event as a conversation. But a Proskauer Rose LLP attorney... (more story)

Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11... (more story)

Discrimination More

EEOC Chair Decries 'Fearmongering' Amid Guidance Repeal

The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration, after the agency's chair panned ... (more story)

Food Hall Strikes Deal To End EEOC Racial Harassment Suit

A Virginia food hall has agreed to pay $54,000 to resolve an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business's owner created a hostile work environment by using a racial slur and making raci... (more story)

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Subway Franchisee Inks $150K Deal In EEOC Sex Assault Suit

A Subway franchisee agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business didn't have the proper safeguards in place to prevent abuse when a teen worker wa... (more story)

Bristol-Myers' Worker Arbitration Push Scrutinized On Appeal

A Washington Court of Appeals panel expressed reluctance to award Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s bid to send a former worker's age discrimination case to arbitration Wednesday, while also casting some doubt on the... (more story)

Ex-Military Heads Back Sen. Kelly In Suit Against Hegseth

Dozens of former military leaders have backed U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., in challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bid to reduce his Navy rank, saying Kelly's punishment for "accurate statements of m... (more story)

Los Alamos Cleanup Co. Hit With Retaliation Suit For Firings

Two former employees of a company owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries and BWX Technologies that was tapped for a $2.1 billion contamination cleanup contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico h... (more story)

UPenn Says EEOC's Bid For Jewish Staff Info Lacks Teeth

The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's request for the contact information of Jewish employees, arguing that the lists the agency aims... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Delivery Drivers Ink $975K Deal To End Misclassification Suit

A class of truck delivery drivers asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to grant preliminary approval to a $975,000 settlement resolving their lawsuit alleging a logistics company they worked for misclassifi... (more story)

Healthcare Workers Seek $12.2M From $28.5M No-Poach Deal

Nearly 12,000 healthcare workers in a $28.5 million settlement with two hospitals that were accused of agreeing not to poach each other's doctors and nurses urged a Pennsylvania federal court to grant approxim... (more story)

UFC Asks 9th Circ. To Nix 'Overbroad' Discovery In Wage Suits

The Ultimate Fighting Championship urged the Ninth Circuit to immediately stop a Nevada federal court from enforcing a "breathtakingly overbroad" discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits, saying it violate... (more story)

Opt-In Forms In DaVita Wage Suit Need Revision, Judge Says

A former DaVita worker should amend misleading consent forms she submitted for nurses and technicians seeking to join her wage action against the dialysis giant, a Colorado federal judge recommended Sunday, sa... (more story)

3rd Circ. Backs Resort Co. In Gratuity Fee Dispute

The Third Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court decision setting aside a jury verdict in favor of Pennsylvania resort workers who alleged their employer unfairly kept a gratuity charged to guests, ruling i... (more story)

Aerospace Contractor, Workers Settle OT Dispute For $450K

An aerospace and electronics defense contractor has reached a $450,000 agreement with its employees to settle class action allegations that workers were shorted by being paid straight time for overtime work, a... (more story)

DOL Budget Bill Would Avert Trump's Proposed Cuts

The U.S. Department of Labor would receive $13.7 billion in discretionary funding under a bipartisan bill that the U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees released Tuesday, including $260 million for t... (more story)