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EEOC Says 2025 Bias Recoveries Hit $660M, Backlog Falls

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered $660 million for aggrieved workers last fiscal year, and took a large bite out of its backlog of pending workplace discrimination charges, according to an agency report released Monday.

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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 a dismissal of a fast food chain's objections to the result of a decertification election.

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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, while slashing a $1 million punitive damages award to $250,000.

Expert Analysis

Pivotal 6th Circ. Ruling Threatens Decades Of NLRB Decisions

Matthew Fontana, Aaron Vance and Brandon Burkhardt

The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Brown-Forman v. National Labor Relations Board fundamentally challenged the... (more story)

How Justices' GEO Ruling Resets Gov't Contractor Litigation

Kara Sacilotto, Brian Walsh and Stephen Obermeier

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

Denise Barnes and Audrey Anderson

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

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Calif. Hospital Workers Get Green Light For Union Vote

About 136 employees of a Bay Area hospital can vote on representation by the Service Employees International Union affiliate that represents their co-workers, a National Labor Relations Board official held, sc... (more story)

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)

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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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Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Recounts Firing: 'This Feels Wrong'

A former associate who claims DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that she got positive feedback as she worked with large corporate clients... (more story)

UMiami Can't Dodge Demoted Surgeon's Sex, Race Bias Suit

A Florida federal judge said Monday that the University of Miami can't fully escape a Latina surgeon's discrimination suit claiming she was demoted for reporting that her male colleagues were paid more, ruling... (more story)

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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)

Conn. Firefighter Was Fired Before Acquittal, Bias Suit Says

A former New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter is suing the city alleging he was the victim of racial discrimination because the city fired him while a sexual assault charge against him was pending in state crim... (more story)

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)

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.

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NY Tour Bus Co. Settles Drivers' OT Suit For $725K

A New York tour bus company and its owner have agreed to pay $725,000 to resolve a decade-old class action alleging they failed to pay drivers overtime and minimum wage, according to a Monday filing in federal court.

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)

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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.

Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Fired For 'Sloppy' Work, Jury Told

A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "re... (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)

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.