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How Justices' GEO Ruling Resets Gov't Contractor Litigation

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent GEO Group v. Menocal decision, holding that government contractors cannot immediat... (more story)

What's Missing From Latest Gov't Claims Against Harvard

The most interesting thing about the Trump administration’s recent civil rights enforcement efforts targeting Harv... (more story)

Preparing For New Calif. Pay Data Reporting Requirements

California's S.B. 464 overhauls the state's pay data reporting framework by requiring employers to use job categor... (more story)

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1st Circ. Ended Northeastern Cop Union Row, NLRB Attys Say

A First Circuit decision last year freed Northeastern University from the obligation to bargain with a campus police union, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors told the board, advising it to drop an unf... (more story)

NLRB Member Open To More Leeway For Late E-Filings

A National Labor Relations Board member said he would be "open to considering" whether regional directors should be allowed to accept objections filed after deadlines, in a decision Monday declining to review ... (more story)

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UPS, Teamsters Reach Deal To Limit Driver Buyouts

United Parcel Service Inc. agreed to the terms of a new settlement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which includes limiting the $150,000 buyouts the company can offer to drivers in return for l... (more story)

USW Wins $50K In Back Pay For Laid-Off Ala. Steelworker

The operator of a shuttered coal processing plant in Birmingham, Alabama, must give a former employee about $50,000 in back pay after laying him off in violation of a union contract's seniority rules, an Alaba... (more story)

6th Circ. Backs Toss Of Construction Co.'s Union Fund Fight

The Sixth Circuit on Friday said it won't revive a construction company's lawsuit alleging that trustees for an International Union of Operating Engineers local's fringe and health benefit funds refused to acc... (more story)

Trader Joe's Says 5th Circ. Panel Ducked Thryv Challenge

Trader Joe's called on the full Fifth Circuit Friday to rethink parts of a panel decision enforcing the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it illegally fired a worker, saying it did enough to challe... (more story)

NLRB Official Drops Hospital Worker's Bid To Oust Union

A National Labor Relations Board official has dismissed a worker's bid to oust a Service Employees International Union unit from a Pennsylvania hospital, ruling that a tentative agreement between the union and... (more story)

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Cleary FCA Task Force Head On Enforcement Trends To Watch

Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace, who now leads a False Claims Act task force at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, is predicting a continued surge in enforcement as the... (more story)

Maryland AG To Defend Child Sex Abuse Law In WWE Suit

A Maryland federal judge will allow Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to intervene, though for only a narrow purpose, in a lawsuit brought by several men who allege they were sexually abused by a World Wrestli... (more story)

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2nd Circ. Backs Smith & Nephew In Paternity Leave Bias Suit

The Second Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a former Smith & Nephew worker's suit claiming he was fired from the medical device company for requesting paternity leave, stating he failed to overcome evide... (more story)

IT Co. Fired Worker After She Asked About Raise, Suit Says

An office technology, IT and security services company fired an employee for questioning why a salary bump from a promotion wasn't reflected in her paycheck, the worker alleged in a suit in Georgia federal court.

Ex-Microsoft Lawyer Says Judge Can DQ Ogletree

A former Microsoft attorney suing the company for pregnancy discrimination called on a Washington federal judge to reject the company's dismissal bid, and doubled down on her efforts to have its Ogletree Deaki... (more story)

Yeezy Beats Overseas App Developers' FLSA Claims

Yeezy LLC defeated federal minimum wage and overtime claims from overseas app developers in a hostile workplace suit against the company, which is owned by the rapper Ye, after a California federal judge ruled... (more story)

8th Circ. Lifts Block On Iowa Law Restricting Gender Lessons

The Eighth Circuit reversed an order Monday that blocked an Iowa law preventing educators from teaching K-6 students about gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom, ruling the lower court's conc... (more story)

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Flowers Foods Seeks 1st Circ. Pause Pending Justices' Ruling

Flowers Foods has asked the First Circuit to put a distributor's appeal on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court decides a case involving the same question of whether local delivery drivers are exempt from arbitra... (more story)

McGuireWoods Adds Seyfarth Shaw Labor Litigator In LA

McGuireWoods LLP continues its West Coast expansion, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Seyfarth Shaw LLP labor and employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Delta Pay Range Suit Goes Back To Wash. State Court

A Delta Air Lines Inc. job applicant's proposed class action accusing the carrier of failing to include required pay information on job postings will return to Washington state court after a Seattle federal ju... (more story)

Tool Co. Can't Arbitrate Workers' Misclassification Suit

A California federal judge has blocked an Ohio-based tool company from pursuing arbitration in a suit alleging it misclassified its dealers as independent contractors, finding the franchise agreement's arbitra... (more story)

Google Can't Nix Former Exec's Gender Bias Jury Verdict

Google can't scrap a jury verdict in favor of a female executive who claimed she was treated less well than male colleagues and passed over for promotion because she complained, a New York federal judge ruled,... (more story)

Litigation Trio Joins Morgan Lewis From Hunton Andrews

Morgan Lewis & Bockius announced Monday that three attorneys formerly with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP had joined the firm, bolstering its growing litigation and labor employment practices.

Boeing Mechanic Wage Class Action Takes Off In Wash.

Boeing has been accused of shorting thousands of Washington state mechanics and other airplane assembly workers on break time and forcing them to work off the clock, according to a proposed class action the ae... (more story)