Expert Analysis

A Closer Look At Amendments To Virginia Noncompete Ban

Recently passed amendments in Virignia will prohibit noncompetes for all employees who are eligible for overtime p... (more story)

Maximizing Employer Defenses After Calif. Meal Waiver Ruling

A California state appeals court's recent decision in Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, finding that revocable meal pe... (more story)

Independent Contractor Rule Up In The Air Under New DOL

In several recent court challenges, the U.S. Department of Labor has indicated its intent to revoke the 2024 indep... (more story)

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NLRB Says Amazon Can't Challenge Captive Audience Ban

Amazon can't use an appeal of a National Labor Relations Board order to challenge the board's conclusion that so-called captive audience meetings are unlawful, prosecutors told the Eleventh Circuit on Friday, ... (more story)

NLRB Seeks Bargain Order Against NYC Homeless Nonprofit

The National Labor Relations Board's Manhattan office urged a New York federal judge to make a nonprofit that operates youth homeless shelters meet a Service Employees International Union affiliate at the barg... (more story)

White House Says Unions Can't Block Columbia Funding Pull

The Trump administration urged a New York federal judge to reject unions' challenge to the administration's decision to end $400 million in federal money for Columbia University, saying the unions have not sho... (more story)

DC Circ. Allows Feds To Halt Funding To Int'l Media Outlets

A D.C. Circuit panel has paused a lower court order that restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while leaving intact other aspects of a ruling preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America.

Layoffs, Grant Cutoffs On Hold At Federal Library Agency

Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries can keep their jobs for now, with a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issuing a temporary restraining order blocking a ma... (more story)

Groups Seek Order Halting Trump's Restructuring Of Gov't

A California district court must stop federal agencies from moving ahead with President Donald Trump's directive to reorganize and terminate government workers, unions and other groups argued, calling for a te... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: Delta $12M Meal Breaks Deal Up For Approval

In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential preliminary approval of a $12 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against Delta Air Lines Inc. Here's a look at ... (more story)

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Judge Slays Trump's Perkins Order With Shakespearean Flourish

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, permanently blocking enforcement of the directive an... (more story)

Ex-Travelers Employee Can't Yet Appeal Arbitration Ruling

The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled Friday that a trial court's refusal to vacate a woman's arbitration loss in an age discrimination case against Travelers Indemnity Co., her former employer, wasn't a final... (more story)

O'Reilly Auto Pregnant Worker Suit Geared Up For Wash. Trial

The Washington State Attorney General's Office may proceed to trial with claims that O'Reilly Auto denied pregnant employees' accommodation requests it was legally required to grant, an Evergreen State judge s... (more story)

American Airlines Seeks To Disband Military Leave Suit Class

American Airlines urged a Pennsylvania federal court to revoke class certification in a lawsuit claiming the company unlawfully denied pilots pay for time spent on military leave, arguing the case involves too... (more story)

Civil Rights Groups Told They Can't Block Trump's DEI Orders

A D.C. federal judge declined Friday to block executive orders from President Donald Trump canceling funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs and contracts, ruling the orders haven't infringed on t... (more story)

Quest Settles Fired Black Phlebotomist's Retaliation Suit

Quest Diagnostics and a Black worker who claimed the company retaliated against her when she reported racist threats patients allegedly made to her have settled their dispute, according to an order Friday in P... (more story)

Ex-Worker Says DirecTV Fired Her In Biased Force Reduction

DirecTV's former senior director of e-commerce has sued the company in Georgia federal court, alleging she was let go during a workforce reduction because of her age and gender.

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Truck Modification Co. Shorted Workers Overtime, Suit Says

A commercial truck modification company flouted state and federal labor laws by allegedly failing to pay its hourly employees for work beyond their allotted shift times, according to a proposed class and colle... (more story)

Ex-Twitter Execs, Co. Fight Over Musk's Texts Severance Row

Elon Musk, his social media platform X and four former company executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance told a California federal judge that they disagreed on how the billionaire's phone sho... (more story)

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RTX Cos., Workers Nab Initial OK Of $19.9M Break, Wage Deal

A California federal judge Thursday preliminarily blessed a $19.9 million deal between companies affiliated with aerospace and defense giant RTX Corp. and workers who accused the company in a putative class ac... (more story)

4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April

Some notable Massachusetts state court decisions in April wrestled with a Staples affiliate's jurisdictional challenge in an employment case, a discovery dispute in the state's greenwashing litigation against ... (more story)

Yale University Hit With Class Claims Over Payroll Schedule

Yale University has illegally paid salaried employees on a monthly basis instead of weekly or bi-weekly, as required in Connecticut, according to a putative class action in state court.

Worker Can't Ring Own Class's 'Death Knell,' Calif. Panel Says

A former construction company employee can't appeal an order denying his class certification motion in a putative wage and hour class action, a California state appeals court has ruled, finding it does not qua... (more story)

NYU Langone Fights Conditional Cert. Bid In OT Suit

NYU Langone told a New York federal court Wednesday that a group of IT workers were too vague in their arguments to support a collective certification bid in their suit accusing the medical center of misclassi... (more story)