Expert Analysis

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)

A Look At EEOC Actions In 2025 And What's Next

President Donald Trump issued several executive orders last year that reshaped policy at the U.S. Equal Employment... (more story)

How Mamdani Will Shift NYC Employment Law Enforcement

Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the New York City labor law regime is poised to become more coordinated, less forgivin... (more story)

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Littler Adds Epstein Becker Employment Litigator In Calif.

Littler Mendelson PC announced that an attorney from Epstein Becker Green is joining its Century City, California, office as a shareholder, bringing a wealth of experience in employment law. 

Ohio Judge Tosses Traffic Co.'s Challenge To Union's Award

An Ohio federal judge on Friday confirmed an arbitration award finding that a traffic control company failed to follow the terms of a collective-bargaining agreement with a chapter of the International Associa... (more story)

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NLRB OKs Official's Union Certification During Quorum Lapse

The National Labor Relations Board has handed down its first published decision since regaining a quorum, upholding the certification of a Service Employees International Union unit as the bargaining represent... (more story)

House Dems Press STB On $85B Railway Mega-Merger

Congressional Democrats have urged the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to pressure the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads for greater clarity about their proposed merger, joining a chorus of left-l... (more story)

Pension Withdrawal Liability Math Gets High Court Spotlight

The U.S. Supreme Court will zero in Tuesday on the methodology for assessing the liability of companies that pull out of multiemployer pension plans, hearing arguments in a case attorneys say could have costly... (more story)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Workers Vote To Unionize

Staff members working across 50 departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have voted in favor of representation by a United Auto Workers local, the union announced Friday.

Electric Co. Specialists Not Supervisors, NLRB Official Finds

Notification specialists working for an Indiana electrical cooperative can be included in an existing bargaining unit represented by an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, a National Labor R... (more story)

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Amazon Fights Class Claims That Clunky HR App Broke ADA

Amazon urged a Washington federal judge on Thursday to pull the plug for good on a lawsuit from workers who claim the company violated state and federal disability law by dragging its heels on accommodations r... (more story)

Bikini Barista Boss Says AG Can't Bring Sex Harassment Suit

The owner of Seattle-area "bikini barista" company Paradise Espresso urged a state judge to dismiss Washington's lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment and withholding pay from workers, arguing the state's ... (more story)

Security Guard Gets $5.5M Jury Win In Sex Harassment Case

A federal jury in Atlanta said that a former security guard who alleged she was sexually harassed and assaulted by her ex-employer's vice president of operations should get $5.5 million in damages, attorneys f... (more story)

Judge Backs Employment Law Firm's 'Harmless Flirting' Ad

A New York federal judge said an employment law firm would probably win its constitutional challenge to the rejection of a billboard advertising its willingness to sue companies that dismiss sexual harassment ... (more story)

Maurene Comey Fights DOJ Bid To Toss Firing Suit

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has urged a New York federal court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to dismiss her firing suit, arguing her claims belong before the district cou... (more story)

J&J Largely Loses Bid To Toss Former Atty's NJ Bias Suit

A New Jersey federal judge largely shot down Johnson & Johnson's bid to scrap a former company data privacy attorney's racial and gender discrimination suit and rejected its bid to sanction her over the case.

11th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Worker's Bias Suit Against UPS

The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that an Alabama district court rightly tossed a Black worker's discrimination suit against UPS, rejecting her arguments that she should have been allowed to revise her case.

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US Foods Workers' $2.4M Wage Deal Scores Initial OK

A Washington state judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval to US Foods' $2.4 million class action settlement with nearly 3,000 current and former workers who alleged the food service retailer systematic... (more story)

Walgreens Workers Snag $2.5M Deal To End Late Pay Suit

Walgreens has agreed to pay $2.5 million to a class of workers who accused the pharmacy chain of not paying their final paychecks on time, the workers said Friday, urging an Oregon federal court to greenlight the settlement.

Flight Attendant Fights Southwest's Bid To Toss OT Suit

An Illinois federal judge should preserve a proposed class action accusing Southwest Airlines of systematically depriving flight attendants at Chicago Midway International Airport of overtime pay, a former fli... (more story)

Calif. Atty Wins Fee Appeal In Dispute With Ex-Firm

A California appellate panel on Thursday approved an attorney fee award for a lawyer in dispute with his former firm but also denied that attorney's attempt to get attorney fees for a post-arbitration hearing.

Jersey Shore City Didn't Pay Overtime, Ex-Worker Says

A former city employee of Cape May, New Jersey, claims it failed to properly pay its hourly employees for working overtime, according to a proposed collective action filed in state court.

Class Cert. Recommended For Nurses In Holiday Pay Case

A group of nurses should proceed as a class in a suit accusing a healthcare company of excluding holiday premiums from their pay when they worked overtime, a Colorado magistrate judge found. 

NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Weighs Arbitration Ban In TikTok Case

This week, the Second Circuit will consider TikTok's bid to overturn a federal judge's decision keeping a former executive's age and gender bias suit in court instead of sending it to arbitration.