The nephew of former Philadelphia union leader John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty has been assigned 40 hours of community service for violating his probation in an extortion case to go on a surprise trip to Disney World.

A union health fund told a New York federal judge that two affiliated aviation services entities cannot avoid required benefit contributions for eight full-time workers by failing to enroll them and then argui... (more story)

The National Labor Relations Board panel on Wednesday put out the call for stakeholder feedback on the application of its rules for bargaining unit makeup in acute care hospitals to proposed bargaining units t... (more story)

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged an agency judge to find that a trucking company committed multiple federal labor law violations before illegally withdrawing recognition from a union, arguing t... (more story)

A Pennsylvania appeals panel on Thursday said a lower court was wrong to scrap an arbitrator's conclusion that a school district violated a collective bargaining agreement by forcing a teacher recovering from ... (more story)

Employer-side labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has announced a planned expansion into St. Louis, Missouri, along with the hiring of a former Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP partner to be regional ... (more story)

A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Disc... (more story)

A pair of House Democrats have introduced a bill that would require employers to provide reasonable accommodations for workers experiencing menopause-related symptoms, creating explicit federal workplace prote... (more story)

A Georgia federal magistrate judge has recommended trimming a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing a utility services provider of firing a worker who sought job adjustments following a st... (more story)

The Ninth Circuit breathed new life into a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing a financial services company of unlawfully rejecting an applicant because she took pain medication, find... (more story)

A North Carolina federal judge has transferred a former Ashley Furniture marketing specialist's age and sex discrimination lawsuit to federal court in Florida, ruling that an independent contractor agreement r... (more story)

A Black former professor's suit claiming the university failed to protect her from harm after colleagues racially discriminated against her and she faced a hate crime on campus was shuttered by a Minnesota fed... (more story)

The Georgia Association for Women Lawyers and the Legal Accountability Project have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Caryn Devins Strickland and her effo... (more story)

Liberty Mutual Group Inc. has settled a lawsuit by a former vice president and senior talent adviser who alleged she was sidelined and eventually fired due to her race, according to a stipulation filed in Nort... (more story)

A Utah federal judge kept alive a former employee's preshift overtime claim in a proposed collective action against a drilling services company, while tossing his rounding, bonus and per diem allegations and m... (more story)

Kroger was hit with a proposed class and collective action in Georgia federal court alleging the company automatically deducted 30-minute meal breaks from delivery drivers' hours and failed to pay Illinois wor... (more story)

A California federal magistrate judge has blocked a household appliance company from deposing a Labor Department official about the agency's historical enforcement positions on piece rate overtime regulations,... (more story)

Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu... (more story)

Advocates for and against eliminating the tip credit believe their arguments are gaining momentum, but the situation is more complex, as efforts to end the lower minimum wage in Chicago and Washington, D.C., h... (more story)

Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino moved Wednesday to cash out of a table game dealer's proposed class action alleging its tip pool practices and mandatory rest period policy violated federal and state wage ... (more story)

Northrop Grumman shorted California workers by rounding recorded time, automatically deducting 30-minute meal periods and requiring off-the-clock work, according to a proposed class action and California's Pri... (more story)