Expert Analysis

Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal court decisio... (more story)

How PAGA Reform Can Inform Employer Strategies In 2025

While recent changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act will not significantly reduce PAGA claims, empl... (more story)

7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights an... (more story)

Labor More

Calif. Forecast: $3.6M Freight Co. Wage Deal Could Get OK'd

In the next week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $3.6 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against a freight carrier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and ... (more story)

Employment Group Of The Year: Shegerian & Associates

Shegerian & Associates won two jury trials for an oncologist in her gender discrimination lawsuit and secured a $14 million award for a bank manager who was fired for taking leave to care for her critically il... (more story)

Yellow Corp. Says It Acted In Good Faith With WARN Notices

Defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday that its last delivery was made the day before it laid off 22,000 union workers, making it a "liquidating fiduciary" that woul... (more story)

NLRB Official OKs Union Vote For Brooklyn Nurse Educators

A group of nurse educators can vote on whether they want to join an existing bargaining unit at a Brooklyn hospital, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, rejecting the employer's claim... (more story)

NY Forecast: Judge Hears YouGov's Bid To Toss Bias Suit

This week, a New York federal judge will consider YouGov's bid to toss a former executive's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against because of her gender and ultimately forced to resign after she compla... (more story)

Hiring Freeze, Ending Telework Would Devastate USPTO

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would be uniquely harmed if forced to follow the Trump administration's return to office mandate, given its nearly 30-year history of telework that has led to 96% of its em... (more story)

Retired Pittsburgh Cops Overpaid For Healthcare, Panel Rules

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court has ruled that the city of Pittsburgh overcharged retired police officers for healthcare benefits, rejecting the city's argument to overturn an arbitrator's award in favor of ... (more story)

Discrimination More

DOJ Seeks End Of SpaceX Challenge To Immigrant Bias Case

A Texas federal judge on Friday paused a SpaceX lawsuit challenging administrative proceedings against the aeronautics company over its refusal to hire refugees and asylees, after the U.S. Department of Justic... (more story)

EEOC Harassment Guidance Can Remain, For Now

A Tennessee federal judge derailed an effort by a coalition of Republican state attorneys general to pause U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance on workplace harassment, after finding that a re... (more story)

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order upending the former Biden administration's consumer and national security safeguards on artificial intelligence.
Trump Undoes Biden's AI Safeguards With Executive Order

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order upending the former Biden administration's consumer and national security safeguards on artificial intelligence, saying former AI policies must be i... (more story)

10 AGs Target Major Banks Over DEI, ESG Initiatives

Major financial institutions in the United States, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, could have made business decisions to follow political agendas, attorneys general from 10 states said, urging them to ta... (more story)

Baldoni Refutes Atty Ethics Claims In 'It Ends With Us' Fight

A lawyer representing Justin Baldoni has told a New York federal judge that statements his counsel has made to the press regarding the actor and director's thorny litigation with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds... (more story)

Thomson Reuters Settles With Ex-Worker Who Criticized BLM

Thomson Reuters has settled a lawsuit claiming it wrongly fired a white data scientist in its Boston office for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement on a company messaging system, according to a filing ... (more story)

Calif. Panel Remands Ex-DA Worker's Bias Suit Over Slur

A California appeals panel reopened a discrimination lawsuit against the San Francisco District Attorney's Office by a Black ex-employee, saying a trial court should evaluate the city's response to a co-worker... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Healthcare Co. Gets Final OK On $14.5M Wage Deal

An Oregon federal judge gave the green light to a $14.5 million settlement that resolves a 17,000-member class action accusing a healthcare company of failing to provide nurses and other hourly employees with ... (more story)

Campbell's Unit Accused Of Failing To Pay For Off-Clock Work

A Campbell's subsidiary fails to compensate hourly paid packing employees for the several minutes they spend each day performing certain tasks before and after their shifts, a proposed collective action filed ... (more story)

In its return-to-office memo, the Office of Personnel Management said agencies should sort out a way to assign employees "to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee's duties and job function" if they live more than 50 miles from a federal office. (iStock.com/alice-photo)
Federal Agencies Must Order Full Return To Office By Friday

Federal agencies will order employees to return to the office by Friday at 5 p.m. to end the "national embarrassment" that remote work policies have fueled, the Office of Personnel Management said, following P... (more story)

Fifth Third, United Accused Of Using Prepaid Cards For Wages

Fifth Third Bank and a slew of other companies, including United Airlines, compensated employees through prepaid cards that required workers to pay fees to get their wages, a worker said in a proposed class ac... (more story)

Circle K Fails To Pay For Travel Costs, Manager Says

Convenience store chain Circle K requires store managers to make trips to other locations to pick up out-of-stock items but doesn't reimburse them for the costs associated with this travel, a proposed class ac... (more story)

Limits On Biden's Contracting Power Could Also Hinder Trump

A Trump administration order barring federal contractors from engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion programs could face court challenges, following the path of decisions rejecting the Biden administratio... (more story)

Wash. Justices Back Workers' View On Moonlighting Law

Washington's highest court clarified on Thursday that the state's moonlighting protections shield low-wage workers from noncompete terms that would outright ban them working for any competitor in any capacity,... (more story)