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Coalition Shows Tension In Union Response To Data Centers

A coalition of building trades unions and businesses is seeking to push "common-sense" regulation of data center development, exposing some tension within the labor movement on issues surrounding artificial intelligence.

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Pa. Minimum Wage Divides Governor Candidates

Pennsylvania's Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates hold different stances on minimum wage in the rare Northeastern state without a floor higher than the federal rate, meaning that minimum wage is effectively on the ballot next month.

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Mich. Jury Awards Televangelist $62M For Network's Racism

A Black televangelist was awarded $62.2 million Wednesday by a Michigan federal jury that found that the white owner of a religious television network subjected him to racial discrimination, harassment and retaliation, concluding a trial centered on a meme depicting the network owner as a pimp surrounded by Black ministers.

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NY Severance Rules Persist Despite McLaren Macomb Threat

Matthew Berman

Despite recent calls to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's decision in McLaren Macomb, New York's robus... (more story)

Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks

Daniel Lowenthal and Kimberly Black

Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes... (more story)

NLRB Memo Signals Narrower View Of Protected Activism

Jason Patterson and Rachel Domash

A recent National Labor Relations Board memo concluding that Microsoft lawfully discharged two employees who condu... (more story)

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FedEx Can't Escape Mortality Data Fight 6th Circ. Revived

A Tennessee federal judge Thursday refused to toss a proposed class action alleging that FedEx pensioners' benefits were shortchanged due to outdated mortality assumptions used to convert their single life ann... (more story)

NLRB Official Tosses Union's Petition At Ind. Transport Co.

A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office has tossed a union's bid to represent a nationwide bargaining unit of employees at an Indiana-based transportation company, finding t... (more story)

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Jail Policy Referendum Needed Union Input, Pa. Justices Told

A referendum to limit certain methods of restraining inmates at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh was void from the start because it had interfered with jail guards' safety and should have been bargained... (more story)

Unions, Nonprofits Get USDA Reorganization Plan Blocked

A California federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from closing offices and reshuffling staff, saying the department's planned reorganization likely amounted to "reprogrammin... (more story)

Atty Sanctioned For Vulgar Emails To Opposing Counsel

A Texas federal magistrate judge has sanctioned an attorney who serves as principal for an oil and gas exploration company locked in a trade secret misappropriation case with a rival after opposing counsel com... (more story)

IBEW Union Hall Wants Out Of COVID-19 Loan Fraud Suit

An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Boston asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to toss claims that it committed fraud by collecting a COVID-19 relief loan it wasn't eligi... (more story)

Hotel Urges NLRB To Review Union Decert Election Ruling

A California hotel urged the National Labor Relations Board to review a regional director's decision rejecting its objections to an election where a UNITE HERE local narrowly avoided decertification, claiming ... (more story)

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Ex-Cal State Lecturer Can't Reopen Disability Bias Lawsuit

A state appeals court backed California State University's win over a lawsuit alleging that administrators failed to properly respond to a lecturer's complaints that student behavior caused him anxiety, findin... (more story)

Marijuana Co. Wraps Up EEOC Disability Bias Suit

A medical marijuana company will pay an ex-employee $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business fired her less than an hour after she asked to take breaks at w... (more story)

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Solar Co. Failed To Stop Workers' Gay Slurs, Suit Says

A solar energy installation company fired two married employees who repeatedly complained that coworkers were harassing them and using homophobic slurs, the workers alleged Wednesday in Maine federal court.

Hegseth Trans Slur May Lead To Deposition, Judge Says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will have to answer questions in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's transgender troops ban, after a D.C. federal judge said Wednesday that his recent use of a slur ... (more story)

Union Says EEOC Can't Dodge Claims Of Class Action Freeze

The American Federation of Government Employees told a D.C. federal court not to toss a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of instructing administrative judges to pause federal e... (more story)

Feds Fight Top Court Review Of Ex-Defender's Sex Bias Suit

The federal judiciary has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a former assistant public defender's petition challenging its internal complaint process for workplace sex harassment, arguing the questions she... (more story)

Suit Claims 'Hostility' At Cybersecurity Co. For Paternity Leave

A software engineer has sued a cybersecurity company in Indiana federal court, alleging it retaliated against him for taking paternity leave and discriminated against him based on his sex.

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DOL Seeks To Extend USMCA Wage Records Collection

The U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday it is seeking a three-year extension of its authority to collect records used to verify that automakers meet wage standards tied to preferential tariffs under the Uni... (more story)

Warehouse Workers Win $1.55M Settlement In Wage Suit

Thousands of California warehouse workers have reached a $1.55 million settlement with a staffing company over allegations that they were denied proper meal and rest breaks and were not fully paid for their wo... (more story)

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Court Vacates DOL Rulings In Trucker Prevailing Wage Case

An Illinois federal judge has set aside a U.S. Department of Labor ruling that found truck drivers on a federally funded construction project were entitled to prevailing wages for time spent waiting to load ma... (more story)

Amazon Workers Allege Unpaid Time At Exit Security Checks

Amazon.com Services LLC fails to pay its Washington warehouse workers for time spent in mandatory anti-theft security screenings when leaving its facilities, two former employees claimed in a proposed wage cla... (more story)

Ogletree Adds 8 Labor, Employment Attys From Fisher Phillips

Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins LLP said Wednesday it has hired eight attorneys from Fisher Phillips.

Sibling Attys Fighting Over $1.1M Comp Want Suit In NY

Two sibling attorneys have agreed to send to the Eastern District of New York their New Jersey federal lawsuit that accuses one of failing to properly compensate the other about $1.1 million, according to a joint filing.

Tyson Subsidiary Hit With Chicken Catchers' Overtime Suit

A Tyson Foods subsidiary failed to pay overtime to chicken catchers and forklift operators who regularly worked more than 40 hours a week at farms in Virginia and Maryland, according to a proposed collective a... (more story)