A Connecticut police sergeant who has fought discipline for excessive force since 2020 cannot proceed with federal constitutional claims against the city of Torrington, a Second Circuit panel ruled Monday in finding that t...(read more)

The Fifth Circuit should free three Texas orchestras from their obligation to bargain with an American Federation of Musicians local, the orchestras argued, saying they were within their rights to end their 30-year relatio...(read more)

President Donald Trump was allowed to kick unions out of the federal workforce using the argument that the unions threatened national security, his administration claimed, asking a California federal judge to toss six unio...(read more)

An Oregon hospital cannot win remand of its case challenging a National Labor Relations Board order requiring the hospital to bargain with a nurses union, the board has told the D.C. Circuit, claiming the hospital can't re...(read more)

The U.S. Department of Labor acted unlawfully in approving a state wage survey that split farmworkers' piece-rate pay into separate categories, a Washington federal judge ruled, but he rejected a farmworkers union's other ...(read more)

The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal court Friday to keep its lawsuit challenging a United Auto Workers affiliate's bid to arbitrate a dispute over graduate student union coverage, claiming certain first- and sec...(read more)

This week, the Second Circuit will consider a challenge to the $350,000 incentive award a federal judge approved for the representative of the class in a long-running dispute accusing the New York City Board of Education o...(read more)

A California state judge Monday ruled that a former Live Nation executive who claims the company fired him for blowing the whistle on corporate misconduct can't avoid arbitration, although he said the parties can bring him...(read more)

The Ninth Circuit on Monday gave a Christian worker another chance to claim a Washington state agency illegally fired her for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, directing the lower court to zero in...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former information technology employee's invitation to clarify whether workers' placement on performance improvement plans that don't result in termination or changes in pay and ...(read more)

A former Carhartt Inc. vice president who says she was the apparel company's highest-ranking Black executive has filed a federal lawsuit seeking at least $100 million in punitive damages, alleging she was subjected to raci...(read more)

Geico is facing a proposed class action in Washington state court alleging that its confidentiality agreement unlawfully prevents employees in the state from discussing their wages and potentially illegal conduct at work.

United Airlines defeated a former pilot's lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to reinstate him following a lengthy furlough he took to serve in the Air Force Reserve, with an Illinois federal judge ruling he hadn't prov...(read more)

The Seventh Circuit refused to reopen a suit alleging an Illinois county hospital fired a pharmacy technician for requesting a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it was bound by a recent ruling nixing a ...(read more)

Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. and a putative class of workers have settled claims the healthcare network underpaid wages by systematically modifying and rounding time sheets, Connecticut federal court records show.

A Florida federal judge granted the Trump administration's push to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that increased wages for foreign farmworkers in light of a new interim rule that has been issued.

Walmart agreed to pay $7.8 million to resolve a state investigation that found violations of Pennsylvania's child labor law at stores across the state, including allowing minors to work more hours than permitted and failin...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and...(read more)

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision to revive wage claims against Jack in the Box doesn't compel an Oregon federal judge to scrap a colleague's finding in litigation against Home Depot, the judge said, rejecting a challeng...(read more)

Police officers who handle drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs for Houston's school district sued the district in Texas federal court Friday, saying they were denied overtime pay for caring for the dogs at home outside their sche...(read more)

A Tennessee federal judge has narrowed but allowed a 5-year-old suit to proceed, finding that workers can pursue claims that a behavioral health company failed to pay them for interrupted meal breaks, while rejecting claim...(read more)