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.

The John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse in Boston, MA. It serves as headquarters for the US Court of Appeals and the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Mass. Judge Takes First Pass At NLRB's Cemex Test

A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a cannabis company to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers in the first application of the National Labor Relations Board’s Cemex standard to an injunction case. Here, Law360 explores takeaways from the novel decision.

A New Jersey Supreme Court decision backed a trial court’s dismissal of the claims in a proposed class action filed by two laborers against their former employer for alleged pre- and post-shift work that took place before an amendment to the state’s Wage Payment Law and Wage and Hour Law went into effect. (iStock.com/Baris-Ozer)

Wage Damages Update Isn't Retroactive, NJ Justices Say

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday held an amendment to the state's wage laws adding liquidated damages and extending the statute of limitations should only be applied to conduct that occurred after its effective date, backing the dismissal of some claims brought by laborers alleging unpaid pre- and post-shift work.

Expert Analysis

Why Employers Shouldn't Overreact To Protest Activities

Frank Shuster

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

Best Practices To Accommodate Workplace Service Animals

Samuel Lillard and Jantzen Mace

Since the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently pledged to enforce accommodations for people with ... (more story)

Kansas Workers' Comp. Updates Can Benefit Labor, Business

Weston Mills

While the most significant shake-up from the April amendment to the Kansas Workers Compensation Act will likely be... (more story)

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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)

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)

Exterior of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, home of the the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Friday, March 8, 2019. With a staff of about 220 assistant U.S. attorneys, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is one of the largest in the country and is the venue for numerous suits challenging President Donald Trump and his associates. (AP Photo/NewsBase)
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)

Teamsters Defend Rehire Order In Dispute With Welch's

A Welch's factory employee who was fired after being falsely accused of sexual harassment five years ago has waited long enough to be rehired, a Teamsters local argued in Pennsylvania federal court, urging a d... (more story)

NLRB Attys Fight Union Sanctions In Strike Replacement Case

A U.S. Department of Justice attorney urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to reject a union's bid to sanction National Labor Relations Board attorneys in a case over labor law violations at a quarry, saying... (more story)

Barge Co. Seeks To Block 'Hot Cargo' Union Arbitration

A barge company urged an Alaska federal judge to stop International Longshore and Warehouse Union local affiliates from arbitrating over a work preservation dispute, telling the court that a prior arbitration ... (more story)

Venable Opens Colo. Office With 8 Sherman & Howard Attys

Venable LLP is growing its presence by opening its first office in Colorado, with eight commercial and employment attorneys from Sherman & Howard LLP opening its Denver location, which will be headed by partne... (more story)

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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)

Detroit Tigers 'Evasive' On Docs In Bias Suit, Former VP Says

A former Detroit Tigers vice president suing the baseball club for race, age and sex discrimination has accused the team of being "evasive" and stonewalling the release of key documents in the case, urging a M... (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)

Insurance Litigation Week In Review

An Arizona judge issued an apparently novel ruling over a foreign discovery statute's applicability to a Canadian arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a $3.5 billion underwriting surplus cla... (more story)

NC Sheriff's Surety Dodges Ex-Detention Officer's Bias Suit

An ex-detention officer accusing a local county sheriff of Title VII violations has all but abandoned her claims against the sheriff's surety, a North Carolina federal court ruled, axing all claims against the... (more story)

Fla. Seeks To Halt Biden's ACA Trans Discrimination Rule

Florida urged a federal court to stop recently finalized regulations clarifying gender identity-based discrimination under the Affordable Care Act from taking effect, saying the new rules would force the state... (more story)

Ex-Bronx DA Worker Says Discrimination Suit Should Stand

A former employee at the Bronx District Attorney's Office said Thursday she supported her claims that the office discriminated against her for seeking medical leave and denied her a promotion because she's Bla... (more story)

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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)

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)

Pressure Mounts On Biden Admin To Finalize Regulations

The U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies face pressure to complete rulemaking this month because a window opens soon that will make it easier for Republicans in Congress to wipe away regulations... (more story)

Justices Say Courts Must Stay Suits Sent To Arbitration

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously concluded Thursday that federal courts do not have discretion to toss a case once it's decided that the claims belong in arbitration, ruling in a wage and overtime suit broug... (more story)

Justices Say Deadline To Appeal Federal Furlough Is Flexible

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday revived a Pentagon employee's dispute seeking an exemption from a furlough, saying that a missed 60-day deadline to appeal the denied exemption does not put the matter out of... (more story)

Georgia Justices Weigh State Immunity In Trooper's Wage Suit

Georgia's Department of Public Safety urged the state's highest court on Wednesday to undo a Georgia Court of Appeals decision that revived a state trooper's suit alleging that the department failed to pay him... (more story)