Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.
Two U.S. House Democrats on Monday urged the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw its proposed rule for determining when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations, saying it would undermine worker protections by making it harder to hold larger businesses accountable.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defeated a supervisor's lawsuit alleging her performance rating was unlawfully lowered because she refused to alter evaluations of other workers and complained about a district director, with a Florida federal judge finding her actions weren't protected by civil rights law.