Expert Analysis

What To Know As Rulings Limit NLRB's Expanded Remedies

Two recent appellate decisions strongly rebuke the National Labor Relations Board's expansion of remedies beyond r... (more story)

5 Bonus Plan Compliance Issues In Financial Services

As several legal constraints — including a new California debt repayment law taking effect in January — tighten ar... (more story)

Unique Aspects Of Texas' Approach To AI Regulation

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act — which will soon be the sole comprehensive artificial intelligence law in... (more story)

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Delta Retirees Seek Court Clearance For Benefits Class Action

A retired flight attendant accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts asked a Nevada federal court to grant her case class action sta... (more story)

Unions Say More Info Is Needed In DOGE Data Access Dispute

A union coalition urged a New York federal judge Monday to order the federal government to disclose how much access to federal workers' personal information it gave the Department of Government Efficiency and ... (more story)

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Teamsters Say UPS' 'Roadie' Siphons Off Union Work

A Teamsters unit has sued UPS in Illinois federal court, alleging the company is undermining a collective bargaining agreement covering about 10,000 workers in Chicago by giving bargaining unit work to a subsi... (more story)

SEIU Says Fired Worker Missed Deadline In Bias Suit

A Service Employees International Union unit is seeking a quick exit from an ex-employee's suit alleging that the union failed to represent her after a Philadelphia hospital fired her while she was on medical ... (more story)

NJ Panel Confirms Utility Co. Misclassified Workers

A New Jersey utility systems installer should have classified workers on public projects under the prevailing wages for electricians, a New Jersey appellate panel said Tuesday, affirming the state Department o... (more story)

DOL Seeks To End 5th Circ. Fiduciary Rule Battle

The U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss two appeals defending a package of Biden-era investment advice regulations that had expanded the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Ret... (more story)

21 States Get Judge To Halt Trump Cuts Of 4 Fed. Agencies

A Rhode Island federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from eliminating four federal agencies that support museums and libraries, minority businesses, organized labor, and homeless services, handing... (more story)

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6th Circ. Backs Theater In Ex-Manager's Sex Harassment Suit

A former movie theater manager can't reopen her lawsuit claiming her boss' repeated requests for a date and inappropriate comments created an unlawfully toxic workplace, with the Sixth Circuit ruling Tuesday t... (more story)

Court Rejects Cherokee Entity's Push To End Bias Dispute

A Missouri federal court judge won't reconsider an order that denied a bid by a Cherokee Nation entity to dismiss a discrimination claim lodged last year by a former employee, saying it failed to show why a se... (more story)

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Feds' Claim Against Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban Tossed

The D.C. Circuit's chief judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's misconduct complaint against the federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serv... (more story)

Texas Woman Says Business Group CEO Assaulted Her

The founder of a Texas business advocacy group is suing the state's largest business association and its CEO, saying he maneuvered his way to head her group and used his leverage to try to coerce her into a se... (more story)

3rd Circ. Backs Pa. City's Win In Worker's Sex Bias Suit

The Third Circuit has declined to reinstate a former Reading, Pennsylvania, mayor's office employee's sexual discrimination claim against the city, rejecting her argument that an investigation into her after r... (more story)

MSG Seeks To Boot Atty From Ex-Exec's Bias, Retaliation Suit

A Reavis Page Jump LLP attorney representing a former Madison Square Garden security executive in a discrimination suit is too enmeshed in the facts of the case, MSG said, urging a New York federal court to ki... (more story)

Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a fili... (more story)

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4th Circ. OKs Fees In Health Co. Workers' OT Suit

A healthcare company must pay $410,000 in attorney fees and costs in overtime suits filed by nearly a dozen former employees, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a lower court's calculations after init... (more story)

Health System Can't Dodge Worker's Time-Rounding Claims

An Ohio county health system can avoid a nursing assistant's claim that it failed to pay semimonthly wages on time, but she can continue pursuing her claims that the company illegally rounded down workers' tim... (more story)

9th Circ. Offers Mixed Ruling On Jack In The Box Wage Claims

A trial must address whether Jack in the Box willfully deducted too much from workers' wages, the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday, flipping workers' win on claims the fast-food company over-deducted their wages... (more story)

Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF

Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.

Colo. Hospitals Accused Of Denying Workers Break Pay

A respiratory therapist told a Colorado state court that two hospitals violated state labor laws by neglecting to pay employees for missed breaks during shifts.

Staffing Co., Colo. Ink $400K Deal In Worker Classification Suit

An app-based staffing company and its affiliate will pay $400,000 after Colorado officials determined it misclassified workers as independent contractors and failed to pay the proper unemployment insurance pre... (more story)

UFW Says H-2A Wage Rule Hurts American Workers

The U.S. Department of Labor rolled out an illegal rule related to the wage rate for H-2A agricultural workers that will push American farmworkers out of work, the United Farm Workers union told a California federal court.