UPS must face a suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the company refused to hire deaf applicants who had received government clearance to work as truck drivers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

UPS Can't Sink EEOC Suit Claiming It Spurned Deaf Drivers

An Illinois federal judge refused Thursday to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming UPS refused to hire deaf applicants who were cleared by the government for truck driver positions, unpersuaded by the company's argument that the suit lacked enough detail to stay in court.

Breonna Taylor Protests NYC A protester holds up a Black Lives Matter sign as she and others gather in the Brooklyn borough of New York, late Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in New York, following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

5 Ripe Issues For The Biden NLRB To Decide

The National Labor Relations Board has more than two dozen ripe issues on its docket, including the legality of so-called captive audience meetings, workers’ rights to use company email and chat systems, and compensation for workers whose bosses delay union negotiations. Here, Law360 looks at these and other issues the board could soon decide.

The EEOC received more than 81,000 discrimination charges from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023, and 36% of those mentioned disability bias. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

EEOC Sees Surge In Color, Disability Bias Charges

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recorded a 10% jump in overall discrimination charges filed in fiscal year 2023, with a record number of allegations involving either disability or color bias, according to data released by the federal government.

Expert Analysis

Why Employers Shouldn't Overreact To Protest Activities

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Recent decisions from the First Circuit in Kinzer v. Whole Foods and the National Labor Relations Board in Home De... (more story)

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Bad Bunny's Sports Firm Says MLBPA Gave It 'Death Penalty'

Rimas Sports, the sports agency of mega music superstar Bad Bunny, is suing the Major League Baseball Players Association in Puerto Rico federal court, saying the union effectively killed its business with unr... (more story)

JB Hunt Is Not Joint Employer Of Drivers, NLRB Official Says

United Natural Foods Inc. delivery drivers in Pennsylvania may vote on whether they want a Teamsters local to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined Thursday, while findi... (more story)

A split NLRB panel remanded a chicken processor's objection to a union representation election for a hearing by a regional director. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
NLRB Remands Chicken Co.'s Election Objection For Hearing

A split National Labor Relations Board panel remanded a chicken processor's challenge of a representation election based on the claim that a union offered to waive initiation fees, with a dissenting board memb... (more story)

Nonprofit Lawfully Withdrew Recognition, NLRB Judge Says

A nonprofit food service company near Albany, New York, lawfully withdrew recognition from a Service Employee International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the agency prosecu... (more story)

NLRB Tells DC Circ. Not To Rehear Stalled Bargaining Case

The National Labor Relations Board urged the full D.C. Circuit to reject an auto parts manufacturer's request to reconsider a March decision upholding the board's ruling that the company unlawfully withdrew re... (more story)

2nd Circ. Calls Starbucks' Union Discovery Order 'Overbroad'

The Second Circuit on Wednesday revived the National Labor Relations Board's suit seeking to halt Starbucks' alleged labor violations nationwide, finding that the lower court erred in tossing the suit for nonc... (more story)

Walmart Illegally Barred Discipline Talk, NLRB Judge Says

Walmart illegally forbade a worker in Louisiana from talking about his discipline with other colleagues, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, telling the company to stop threatening employee... (more story)

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Disney Strikes Deal To Exit Hispanic Worker's Bias Suit

A Disney subsidiary reached an agreement Thursday with a former Walt Disney World worker to end her lawsuit alleging the company unlawfully fired her after a co-worker overheard her tell a story about discipli... (more story)

Flight Attendant Fights United's Bid To Exit Disability Bias Suit

A former United Airlines flight attendant fought against the airline's bid to end her suit accusing it of firing her for not recovering from COVID-19 fast enough, arguing that the reason given for her terminat... (more story)

A judge approved a consent decree that ends an EEOC suit that said female workers for a cleaning company routinely faced physical and verbal harassment on the job dating to at least October 2018. (iStock.com/PeopleImages)
Cleaning Co. Settles EEOC Sex Harassment Suit For $200K

A cleaning company will pay $200,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit in Wisconsin federal court claiming it ignored complaints that women were being subjected to unwanted touching an... (more story)

ESPN Workers Drop Religious Bias Suit Over Vaccine Mandate

Two out of three former ESPN workers who sued the sports media company and its owner, The Walt Disney Co., claiming religious persecution after they were denied exemptions from their workplace's COVID-19 vacci... (more story)

FDIC's Gruenberg Scolded By Senators Over Agency Culture

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg on Thursday faced a second round of congressional reprimand from both sides of the political aisle over his agency's workplace misconduct scandal, but ... (more story)

Ex-Ga. Coach Says Earlier Race Suit Doesn't Bar Title VII Suit

A former Georgia high school football coach, who alleged his contract was terminated because of his race, urged the Eleventh Circuit to revive his suit against the Valdosta City School District on Thursday, ar... (more story)

Penn Can't Dodge Fired Arabic Lecturer's Bias Suit

A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to toss an Arabic lecturer's suit claiming the University of Pennsylvania fired him because he is an older Muslim man with arthritis, saying a jury needs to determine whet... (more story)

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FTC Can't Make Albertsons, Kroger Produce Divestiture Docs

An administrative law judge on Thursday denied the Federal Trade Commission's "premature" bid to compel Kroger and Albertsons to fork over documents related to negotiations for the companies' expanded divestit... (more story)

EPA Doctor Not A Whistleblower For Slamming Lead Plan

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pediatrician and epidemiologist who publicly criticized the EPA's plan to reduce lead in drinking water as inadequate is not protected by federal whistleblower law... (more story)

The settlement class for the wage statement claim is defined as current and former California-based Delta flight attendants from any time between Jan. 9, 2014, and March 31, 2024, who did not participate in Delta's enhanced retirement or voluntary opt-out programs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Delta, Flight Attendants Ink $16M Deal To End Wage Suit

Delta Air Lines flight attendants reached a nearly $16 million settlement with the company in an almost decadelong suit accusing the airline of wage statement violations, they told a California federal judge, ... (more story)

Home Health Co., Aides Settle OT Suit Over Shift Tracking

A home health care organization and two workers asked an Ohio federal judge Thursday to sign off on a $62,000 settlement resolving claims that the company underpaid overtime wages by separately tracking the da... (more story)

High Court Decision Requiring A Stay Raises More Questions

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision Thursday finding that federal courts must honor a request to stay a case after ordering the dispute into arbitration leaves an important subsequent question unresolv... (more story)

Calif. Panel Says Signature Wasn't Rebutted On Arbitral Pact

A worker failed to show that a signature in an employee handbook containing an arbitration clause wasn't his, a California state appeals court ruled, flipping a trial court's decision that denied a mining comp... (more story)

Wis. Appeals Court Undoes Corrections Workers' Wage Class

A Wisconsin appeals court dissolved a class of state Department of Corrections employees who argued they are owed pay for the time they spent undergoing security checks and walking to and from their assigned w... (more story)