A Washington federal judge has allowed most of a campus food-service worker's wage and hour claims to proceed, finding the worker adequately pleaded violations of state meal and rest break laws and willful withholding of wages.
A professors union and its Texas affiliate asked a Texas federal court to stop Texas Tech University's chancellor and board from enforcing policies that, the unions say, censor academic speech on race, gender identity and sexual orientation, arguing the policies will cause irreparable harm to the university's teachers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday that Battelle Energy Alliance will pay $5 million to resolve an agency investigation into allegations that the lab operator illegally denied Idaho-based employees religious and disability exemptions to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.