A Colorado federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pressed frivolous allegations that an appliance retailer unlawfully failed to accommodate a worker's long COVID-19, potentially putting the EEOC on the hook for all the business' attorney fees.
A North Carolina federal judge has cleared the way for servers and bussers at a craft brewing company to pursue their wage claims as a group, finding that tipped workers across the company's taprooms shared a common grievance over how they were paid.
A Fifth Circuit judge probed Starbucks' labor philosophy Monday in its appeal of a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it stifled workers' rights in a smothering response to an organizing explosion in upstate New York five years ago, asking the company's attorney why it doesn't want unions.