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6 Laws For Calif. Employers To Know In 2026

California's legislative changes for 2026 impose sweeping new obligations on employers, including by expanding pay... (more story)

Prepping For 2026 Shifts In Calif. Workplace Safety Rules

California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health is preparing for significant shifts and increased enforcem... (more story)

Where DEI Stands After The Federal Crackdown In 2025

The federal government's actions this year have marked a fundamental shift in the enforcement of antidiscriminatio... (more story)

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NJ Judge Won't Lift Bid Deadline On Tunnel Rail Project

A New Jersey federal judge said Thursday she won't lift a deadline to bid on a railway-construction project associated with building a new tunnel to New York City, saying a New Jersey construction company isn'... (more story)

RLA Doesn't Confer Arb. Right Without Union, NY Judge Says

The Railway Labor Act doesn't give airline workers the right to compel arbitration against their employers before a System Board of Adjustment if their union isn't representing them, a New York federal judge r... (more story)

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NLRB Judge Tosses Case Against 'Memphis 7' Starbucks

An administrative law judge has determined that Starbucks didn't violate the National Labor Relations Act when it surveilled employees' union activities, more strictly enforced its punctuality policy and disci... (more story)

NJ Cannabis Co. Challenges Law Requiring Deal With Unions

A cannabis company is urging a New Jersey federal court to pause an upcoming arbitration proceeding with a United Food and Commercial Workers local over its firing of several employees, claiming that it had be... (more story)

Gov't Urges Justices To Review ERISA Pleading Standard Split

The U.S. solicitor general and the solicitor of labor said the U.S. Supreme Court needs to clarify that workers must back their suits targeting underperforming retirement funds with proper comparison proof, ur... (more story)

Judge Weighs Security Claims In Federal Bargaining Case

A D.C. federal judge declined to immediately reinstate collective bargaining agreements for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and National Weather Service employees Wednesday, saying the case brought by the wor... (more story)

AFA-CWA Must Face Conspiracy Claims From SkyWest Group

The Association of Flight Attendants must keep facing allegations that it conspired with SkyWest workers to access confidential information held by SkyWest's employee group during an organizing drive, a Utah f... (more story)

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EEOC Challenges Care Co.'s Bid For Win In Harassment Suit

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is pushing back on a nursing home and rehabilitation center operator's bid for a pretrial win in a suit alleging it failed to act when a nurse was sexually hara... (more story)

Marriott's $175K Deal Wraps Up EEOC Religious Bias Suit

A Florida federal judge has approved a $175,000 deal to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming hotel giant Marriott unlawfully required a Seventh-day Adventist employee to work on her... (more story)

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WNBA Player Ends Suit Alleging Pregnancy Prompted Trade

A WNBA player and the Las Vegas Aces struck a deal to resolve Hamby's suit alleging the team traded her because she became pregnant, according to a filing in federal court Thursday.

March Trial Date Set For Ex-NJ Judge's Pension Fight

A trial date has been set in a former New Jersey Superior Court judge's challenge to the denial of her disability pension application, according to a Wednesday text order.

Firing After Kirk Post Violated Free Speech, Tenn. Worker Says

A Tennessee state insurance agency violated a worker's First Amendment free speech rights when it fired her for posting on Facebook that assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was a "white supremac... (more story)

Starbucks DEI Goals Are 'Race-Based Quotas,' Fla. AG Claims

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is accusing coffee giant Starbucks Corp. of violating state civil rights protections in its efforts to promote an inclusive workforce, claiming in a state lawsuit Wednes... (more story)

Disciplined Attys Want High Court's Take On Judge Criticism

A father-daughter team of attorneys have brought a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging their suspensions for criticizing a Florida state judge who reversed a $2.75 million jury verdict in favor of t... (more story)

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DoorDash, Uber Sue NYC To Block Checkout Tip Prompt Law

DoorDash and Uber Eats filed suit together Thursday in Manhattan federal court, seeking to block two New York City laws that the food delivery companies say force them to solicit tips before or as customers ch... (more story)

Judge Certifies Conn. Sushi Chef's Raw Deal Paycheck Suit

A Connecticut Asian fusion restaurant must face a class action employment case led by a sushi chef who claimed he and others worked close to 80 hours some weeks at a flat rate, without overtime pay.

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5 Attorneys On The Wage And Hour Issues They're Watching

As the new year approaches, employment law attorneys are watching the expansion of pay transparency laws, efforts to ban "stay-or-pay" contracts and an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether last-mile d... (more story)

Ga. Judge Joins Geico Call Center Actions Ahead Of Deal

A Georgia federal judge agreed Thursday to consolidate a pair of class actions accusing Geico of shorting its call center workers on pay for pre- and post-shift work, clearing the way for settlements that were... (more story)

Mo. Court Rejects Conditional Cert. In Hospital Break Suit

Nurses and technicians cannot move forward as a collective in an unpaid meal break lawsuit against a hospital network, a Missouri federal judge ruled, finding that they failed to put forward enough evidence th... (more story)

Home Depot Can't Snag Exemption Win In OT Row

A former Home Depot assistant store manager showed that she spent most of her time performing nonexempt work, a California federal judge ruled on Wednesday, while also agreeing to grant the home improvement ch... (more story)

Med Delivery Co. Fired Workers For Pay Complaints, Suit Says

A pharmaceutical delivery company misclassified drivers as independent contractors even though it controlled nearly every aspect of their work and fired 12 named drivers at once for speaking up about it, accor... (more story)