A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor asked the board Monday to keep an agency judge's decision finding that a software company and its subsidiary illegally fired an employee for sharing a false rumor ab... (more story)

U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insigh... (more story)

A United Auto Workers affiliate has asked the National Labor Relations Board to uphold a decision approving a representation election for faculty members not on the tenure track at the University of Southern C... (more story)

Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming bett... (more story)

When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's gold... (more story)

More than 20 union affiliates have filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court challenging a memorandum directing agencies in the U.S. Department of Defense to cancel hundreds of union contracts throughout the c... (more story)

A Maryland federal judge trimmed but declined to completely toss a suit from a trio of CSX Transportation Inc. workers who said they were suspended or fired for taking medical leave during holidays, saying a j... (more story)

An annuity salesperson whose hostile work environment claim against Jackson National Life Insurance Co. was revived by the Tenth Circuit urged a Colorado federal judge Monday not to bar from trial a damages ex... (more story)

Two companies partnered with Con Edison targeted immigrants from the country of Georgia and required them to work 50- to 90-hour weeks under conditions "tantamount to human trafficking" for far less than minim... (more story)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to float a revision of its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations and scrap decades-old guidance pertaining to sex and national origin bias by the end ... (more story)

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "sel... (more story)

North Carolina law firm Whitaker & Hamer PLLC fired a paralegal after she asked to bring her service dog to work and for additional time off to manage flare-ups of her disability, according to a Monday lawsuit... (more story)

Workday can't ask the Ninth Circuit to immediately review a ruling allowing job applicants to bring disparate impact claims under federal age bias law in a suit alleging the company's artificial intelligence t... (more story)

A New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday that a bank was justified in firing a longtime branch manager who failed to ensure employees followed security protocols, rejecting her claims that the termination was m... (more story)

Ninth Circuit arguments in a proposed class and collective action by delivery drivers seeking overtime from a food distributor will likely focus on which entity shipped the transported goods, an analysis that ... (more story)

Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $13 million to settle claims brought by the Texas attorney general alleging the company stiffed delivery drivers participating in its Spark Driver program, and said it will addit... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled an updated agency rule list that contains newly announced plans for child labor and tipped worker changes and provides updated time frames on previously announced proposals.

Kim Kardashian's Skims retail company executed a "scheme of wage abuse" to increase its profits by failing to pay overtime wages to hourly employees and denying them legally required meal and rest breaks, alle... (more story)

A workers' compensation insurance company has been sued by a premium audit consultant who claims it failed to pay overtime wages to workers who regularly clocked far more than 40 hours a week, a North Carolina... (more story)

Ogletree announced Monday the management-side labor and employment law firm has added to its roster of attorneys in Orange County, California, a new shareholder who is returning to the firm following a short t... (more story)

A gig economy staffing platform has agreed to pay $95,000 to settle allegations made in Illinois state court that it misclassified workers as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime wages and four-h... (more story)