Expert Analysis

7 Tips For Employers On Calif. Decision-Making Tech Rules

Over the next eight months, many California employers must prepare to comply with challenging new requirements und... (more story)

Employer Tips As Calif. Law Rewrites Retention Pay Rules

California's recent enactment of A.B. 692 disrupts how employers structure sign-on bonuses, retention payments and... (more story)

What To Know About NY's Employment Credit Check Ban

An amendment to the New York state Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting applicants' or employees' consumer credit... (more story)

Labor More

Unions Can't Sue Over Deferred Resignation, Feds Say

The Trump administration has asked the First Circuit to uphold a decision rejecting a labor coalition's challenge to its deferred-resignation program for federal workers, arguing the coalition's bid to revive ... (more story)

Uber Flouted Prop 22 With Lack Of Appeals Process, Suit Says

Uber failed to provide drivers with a process for challenging deactivations under California's Proposition 22, which provided certain benefits for app-based drivers and exempted them from an independent contra... (more story)

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Starbucks Accuses Union Of Bad Faith Bargaining

Starbucks has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Workers United, accusing the union of refusing to bargain and pushing a "false narrative" that the company had to be forced to resume bargaining.

Del. Police Captains Seek OT Win As First Responders

A group of Wilmington police captains who say they were denied overtime pay for years asked a Delaware federal judge on Monday to rule in their favor without a trial, arguing undisputed evidence shows they are... (more story)

Justices Won't Consider Union's Right To Seek SpaceX Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court shut the door Monday on a challenge to a Fifth Circuit ruling that enables the National Labor Relations Board's targets to get its cases blocked, turning away a union's appeal of a decis... (more story)

Justices Won't Rethink Bakery Co.'s $15.6M Pension Tab

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a baked goods company's bid for review of the Eleventh Circuit's finding that it owed a union pension fund up to $15.6 million, leaving in place Monday a ruling that backed t... (more story)

Starbucks Wins 5th Circ. Bid To Scrap NLRB Subpoena Order

The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order that dinged Starbucks for sending overbroad subpoenas to pro-union employees, saying in a published opinion that the board applied the... (more story)

Discrimination More

Stone Hilton Tells Court Ex-Employee's Suit 'Not A Close Call'

Stone Hilton PLLC asked a Texas federal court on Monday to toss an employment lawsuit brought by a former office manager, saying in a summary judgment bid that the evidence just isn't there to support her clai... (more story)

NY Atty Says Okla. Law Firm Misclassified, Denied Benefits

A New York attorney has filed a $3.1 million contract suit against her former employer, accusing an Oklahoma-based national litigation firm of terminating her employment after she requested an overdue invoice,... (more story)

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High Court Turns Away Veteran's Disability Bias Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the dismissal of a veteran's lawsuit alleging he was let go by an aviation training provider because of his post-traumatic stress disorder and other service-rela... (more story)

Atty Can't Retool Retaliation Suit Against Ex-Mentor, Firm

An attorney who is suing her ex-mentor and former law firm lost her bit to add a defamation claim and make other changes to her long-running sexual harassment and retaliation suit after a Michigan federal judg... (more story)

Judge Says Ill. Justices Can't Fire Him Over MAGA Op-Ed

Illinois Supreme Court justices have no authority to remove a state judge from the bench for alleged misconduct, so their effort to dismiss a retired state trial judge's claims that his removal for penning a p... (more story)

Ex-NJ Judge Unable To Revive Claims Against Town, Top Cop

A New Jersey federal judge rejected on Monday a former state jurist's bid to revive civil rights claims against a Garden State municipality and its former police director, finding the plaintiff failed to show ... (more story)

9th Circ. Revives Doctor's PeaceHealth Whistleblower Suit

A Ninth Circuit panel has reinstated a psychiatrist's claims that PeaceHealth Inc. retaliated against him for expressing concerns about potential Medicaid fraud at a Washington hospital, concluding on Friday t... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Contractor Trafficked H-2A Workers, Denied Wages, Suit Says

An agricultural labor contractor and his company charged illegal recruitment fees to H-2A migrant workers, underpaid the workers and confiscated their passports to prevent them from leaving their jobs, accordi... (more story)

Systemic Bias Norm At Taiwan Semiconductor, Engineer Says

A software engineer for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has alleged the microchip-maker systematically discriminates against women by hiring them less frequently than men, underpaying women and fosterin... (more story)

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Healthcare AI Co. Seeks to Drop 3 From Wage Suit

A data science platform said Friday that a former executive, who claims he was not paid after investing $750,000 into the business, cannot drag three out-of-state people loosely connected to the company into a... (more story)

Property Manager Hit With OT, Face Scan Privacy Class Action

A proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court accuses a multifamily property management company of deliberately paying its employees less overtime by making them work off the clock and of using techn... (more story)

Black Car Co. Can't Nix $236K Wage Verdict

A New York federal judge on Friday refused to upend a $236,000 jury verdict in favor of a group of drivers, rejecting a black car company's argument that the jury wrongly found the drivers were employees rathe... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: 9th Circ. To Weigh Arb. Fight In Tesla Bias Suit

In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a discrimination case against Tesla Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.

NY Forecast: NYC Fights Uber And DoorDash's Tip Law Suit

In the week ahead, a federal judge will consider New York City's request to dismiss Uber and DoorDash's challenge to a pair of city laws that regulate how food delivery platforms display tipping options.