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Spotlight On Legal Battles Over EEOC Subpoena Powers

Attorneys at Wilson Elser consider the spate of litigation over the past year, spurred by the Equal Employment Opp... (more story)

NFL Hiring Bias Ruling Signals Trend Away From Arbitration

A New York federal court's recent decision in Flores v. NFL, declining to compel arbitration in a class action all... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Harassment At Work After Epstein Files

The recent release of millions of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has renewed a move... (more story)

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Teamsters, Amazon Reach Deal Over Strike Time Deductions

The Teamsters and Amazon have reached a settlement to stop the company from not restoring unpaid time off it deducts from workers who go on strike, the union announced Tuesday in a development it said will enc... (more story)

Nurses Union Can't Force Arbitration, Mich. Hospital Says

A Michigan hospital has urged a federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging it is refusing to arbitrate claims that it removed more than $500,000 in retirement health account credits owed to registered nurses, ar... (more story)

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NJ Steel Co. Dodged Union On Closure, Layoffs, NLRB Says

A shuttered New Jersey steel company violated federal labor law by largely snubbing its employees' union when it went out of business, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, saying the company had an obliga... (more story)

VA Continues To Spurn Union Contract Despite Court Order

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has responded to a Rhode Island federal judge's order to resume complying with a union contract by shredding the contract and appealing the order, arguing that a White H... (more story)

Feds Slam Unions' AI Surveillance Challenge

The federal government urged a New York federal court to toss allegations that the Trump administration is using a surveillance system to find viewpoints it doesn't like and use the threat of immigration enfor... (more story)

NLRB Office Clears Netflix In Memo Over Social Media Case

Federal labor law didn't protect a Netflix worker's social media post that included a password-protected link to a meeting that contained confidential business information, National Labor Relations Board attor... (more story)

VA Must Restore Union Contracts, RI Judge Says

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must resume working with the unions that represent its employees, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Friday, granting a union coalition's request for a preliminary injun... (more story)

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Michigan Judge OKs Lawyers' Exit From Atty's Retaliation Suit

A Michigan federal judge has allowed a trio of lawyers to withdraw from representing an attorney accusing her former mentor of sexual harassment and her former law firm of retaliation.

Late Notice Dooms Fired Fox News Producer's Sick Day Suit

A D.C. federal judge tossed an ex-Fox News producer's suit claiming the network fired him for taking a sick day, ruling he isn't protected by the district's sick leave law because he failed to notify his boss ... (more story)

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Nursing Home Can't Dodge EEOC Pregnancy Bias Suit

A nursing and rehabilitation facility can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it effectively fired an employee who requested light duty during her pregnancy, with a Marylan... (more story)

Justices Won't Touch Ex-CTA Worker's Deleted Text Sanction

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee whose retaliation lawsuit was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence.

EEOC Accuses Dispensary Of Rampant Sexual Harassment

Male employees at an Illinois cannabis dispensary sexually harassed their female colleagues on a "near-daily" basis, which forced at least one woman to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to... (more story)

General Mills Gets Lengthy Race Bias Suit Tossed, For Now

A Georgia federal judge has ordered a proposed class of General Mills factory workers who say they were subjected to years of racist abuse to rewrite and condense their complaint with the goal of avoiding the ... (more story)

Airbus Engineer Couldn't Prove Bias In Firing, 11th Circ. Says

The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Airbus America of bias and retaliation from a Black former manufacturing engineer, saying that even though he established a "prima facie case of ... (more story)

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Wash. Gov. Signs Bills Expanding Powers Of State AG

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed two bills requested by the office of the state attorney general, including one aimed at enhancing its ability to demand document production and testimony in civil matter... (more story)

Ga. County's Fire Chief Not Entitled To Overtime, Court Rules

A Georgia county fire battalion chief is not entitled to overtime under federal wage law, a federal judge ruled, finding that his salary and job duties qualified him for a statutory exemption.

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Justices Wary Of 'Odd' Arbitration Jurisdiction Theory

A lawyer urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find that federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration do not automatically have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a subsequent award faced heavy skepticism ... (more story)

4th Circ. Revives Va. Worker's OT Retaliation Suit

A worker's suit accusing a production supervisor at a packaging company of firing him after he reported violations for unpaid overtime should have stayed alive, the Fourth Circuit ruled, saying a Virginia fede... (more story)

JetBlue Defeats Flight Attendants' Pay Frequency Suit

JetBlue Airways will not have to face claims from two flight attendants accusing the airline of paying them late and providing deficient wage statements, a New York federal judge ruled, saying their allegation... (more story)

Pretrial Inmates' Forced Labor Claims Too Individual For Class

A group of detainees who performed kitchen work in California county jail can't snag class certification in their suit accusing the county and a correctional services company of forcing them to work without pa... (more story)

Marketing Co. Misclassified CEO's Home Staff, Suit Says

A marketing company misclassified employees working in a property management office on its CEO's private estate as independent contractors, denying them overtime wages, according to a proposed collective actio... (more story)