Littler Mendelson PC shareholder Rocio Blanco Garcia's litigation work helped to clarify how employers can beat whistleblower cases in the Eleventh Circuit, and her advisory work gave thousands of employees of... (more story)

A petition to decertify a nurses' union at a St. Louis hospital may move forward, a split NLRB ruled, reversing a regional official's decision to apply the board's contract bar rule and toss the petition.

A California federal judge erred by refusing to order an airline caterer to provide its workers with back pay after a healthcare dispute with a union, a split Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, saying the Railway La... (more story)

A UPS driver urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the company's early win bid in a proposed class action, arguing late payments cannot erase paid-sick-leave violations.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a state law passed during the COVID-19 pandemic properly barred school custodians from claiming extra emergency pay under their collective bargaining agreement... (more story)

Texas A&M University is violating the U.S. Constitution by banning professors from teaching politically disfavored views on gender, race and sexuality, a professors' union argues in a new lawsuit, asking a Tex... (more story)

Professional, skilled workers seeking employment-based visas urged a D.C. federal judge not to toss their lawsuit challenging the gold card visa program, arguing they will suffer injury because the expedited a... (more story)

Groups affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania urged the Third Circuit to nix a lower court's order mandating the school's compliance with a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena seeking... (more story)

A state trooper's disability discrimination claim against the Michigan State Police qualifies as a personal injury claim subject to a six-month notice deadline, a Michigan appellate court has determined. 

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday appeared skeptical about reviving a former U.S. Postal Service clerk's suit alleging she was coerced into a sexual relationship by a superior and fired for taking part, with one ju... (more story)

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday closely examined the timeline of events in a former Louisiana cop's lawsuit alleging she was demoted for complaining that men were given more leeway on medical leave, and one judge... (more story)

The Fifth Circuit refused to reopen a former Procter & Gamble employee's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's Black and complained about suspected regulatory violations, concluding he hadn't provided eno... (more story)

The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's trial loss in its lawsuit alleging that a chemical company violated civil rights law by failing to prevent racial harassment a... (more story)

A former plant manager for automotive technology company Aptiv will not have his employment benefits reinstated after he suffered a severe medical crisis and was terminated from his job, a Sixth Circuit panel ... (more story)

A Maryland federal court has conditionally certified a collective of construction workers who allege their employer systematically underpaid overtime through a scheme of issuing two separate checks, with the s... (more story)

Lockheed Martin agreed to pay $620,000 to end a former employee's proposed class action alleging the defense contractor failed to pay employees for the time they walked to and from time clocks at a Pennsylvani... (more story)

New Jersey's attorney general hit Amazon with a federal antitrust suit Tuesday, alleging the company engineered its Delivery Service Partner program to create a "captive seller," then used its dominance to imp... (more story)

The owner of a chain of New York car wash businesses shaved time off of the weekly wages of his employees, illegally retained their tips and retaliated against them when they complained, according to a propose... (more story)

The Campbell's Co. and the staffing firm CorTech LLC violated federal and state wage laws by requiring hourly contingent workers to work nights and weekends without overtime pay, a proposed class and collectiv... (more story)

Five Virginia traffic control workers sued their employer Tuesday in federal court, alleging the company deleted or shortened their recorded hours to suppress overtime pay, failed to pay for required travel an... (more story)

A Colorado casino forced dealers to hand over part of their tips to supervisors, buy their own uniforms and work off the clock before their shifts, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.