Expert Analysis

Unique Aspects Of Texas' Approach To AI Regulation

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act — which will soon be the sole comprehensive artificial intelligence law in... (more story)

NLRB Memo Shifts Tone On Defenses Against Union 'Salting'

The current Starbucks strike demonstrates the potential effects of salting, in which applicants seek employment in... (more story)

How To Prepare If Justices Curb Gov't Contractor Immunity

Given the very real possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will determine in GEO v. Menocal that government contr... (more story)

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Ill. Petroleum Co.'s Drivers Can Vote To Join Teamsters Union

Fuel and oil drivers at a suburban Chicago petroleum company can vote on whether to join the Teamsters, a National Labor Relations Board official said, rejecting the employer's argument that the petitioned-for... (more story)

SEIU Unit Fights Hospital Worker's Firing Over Pot Test

A Service Employees International Union unit said an Ohio hospital must comply with an arbitrator's order to rescind its write-up of a worker who tested positive for cannabis use after a random drug test, tell... (more story)

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NLRB Cites District Court In DC Circ. Constitutionality Appeal

A recent Washington, D.C., federal court decision undermines a nursing home's bid to stop the National Labor Relations Board's case against it, the agency argued as it urged the D.C. Circuit to join other cour... (more story)

US Asks Mexico To Probe Labor Dispute Under USMCA

The U.S. has asked Mexico to conduct a fast-track labor investigation under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement after receiving reports that a Mexican company may be denying workers the right to collecti... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: Tribe To Make Sovereignty Args In Labor Suit

In the next two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye on Ninth Circuit oral arguments regarding whether a Native American tribe's sovereignty shields it from a labor arbitration award. Here's a look at that case... (more story)

2nd Circ. Won't Revive NY Teamsters Worker's Pension Suit

The Second Circuit refused Friday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action challenging his pension plan's fees and investments, backing a lower court's holding that his claims weren't deta... (more story)

Teamsters Unit Escapes Black UPS Worker's Bias Suit

A Teamsters local dodged a Black UPS worker's suit claiming the union discouraged him from complaining about on-the-job race discrimination and interfered with his medical leave, with a Mississippi federal jud... (more story)

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'Housewives' Star Says Revenge Porn Talks Were Coerced

Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Brit Eady accused Bravo and the show's production company of blackmailing her into discussing a "disgusting" revenge porn incident where in front of a live event audien... (more story)

Hospital Claims EEOC Pressed 'Frivolous' Disability Bias Suit

A Baltimore-area hospital accused the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of mischaracterizing a deaf nurse's medical restrictions and accommodation request to prop up a disability bias suit, telling ... (more story)

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Roofing Co. Ignored 'Egregious' Race, Sex Bias, EEOC Says

An Illinois roofing company failed to address racist remarks and inappropriate sexual comments regularly made by a subsidiary's vice president and other employees, ultimately forcing a worker to resign, the U.... (more story)

Faulty Dismissal Filing Dooms Ex-AT&T Worker's Bias Appeal

The Eleventh Circuit said Friday it couldn't wade into a worker's push to revive claims that AT&T illegally faulted employees for pregnancy-related absences, finding a missing signature on a deal to end the ca... (more story)

Longtime DOJ Atty Joins Kalijarvi Chuzi In Washington

An attorney who spent about 17 years with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and was part of a team that challenged a North Carolina law banning transgender people from using bathrooms tha... (more story)

10th Circ. Seems Wary Of Trans Students' Bathroom Law Suit

The Tenth Circuit on Thursday appeared hesitant about reviving a challenge by three transgender students and their parents to an Oklahoma law requiring that school bathroom access be based on birth certificate... (more story)

EEOC Accuses Northwestern Mutual Of Blocking DEI Probe

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Wisconsin federal court Thursday to force Northwestern Mutual to hand over details about its diversity, equity and inclusion policies and workplace trai... (more story)

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Ex-Kia, Hyundai Workers Score $11.5M Deal In Wage Suit

A Hyundai supplier, a Kia plant and two staffing agencies have reached an $11.5 million deal to resolve a suit by production line workers who accused the companies of a scheme to obtain cheap labor from skille... (more story)

Colo. Healthcare System Stiffing Workers, Court Told

A pair of former workers for a hospital and healthcare facility operator in Colorado have accused their past employer of routinely shortchanging their pay in violation of state and federal wage and hour laws, ... (more story)

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Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited

A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-doze... (more story)

Worker Says Morgan & Morgan Fired Her Over Fraud Concern

Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and fai... (more story)

Firefighter Owed Pay For Service Leave, Mass. Court Finds

A Boston suburb owes a now-retired firefighter back pay for more than 70 days he spent serving Air National Guard duty, the state's intermediate-level appeals court said Friday, clarifying a Massachusetts law ... (more story)

Nike Worker Blows Whistle On Alleged Wash. Wage Violations

A Pacific Northwest retail worker is calling foul on Nike for allegedly denying employees rest and meal breaks, sick leave, overtime pay and other wages owed, according to a new lawsuit in Washington state court.

NC Farmworker Wage Trial Canceled Amid Proposed Deal

A North Carolina federal judge has called off a December jury trial over claims that Lee and Sons Farms underpaid migrant H-2A workers and forced them to buy inadequate meals, with the parties telling the cour... (more story)