Expert Analysis

What To Know As Rulings Limit NLRB's Expanded Remedies

Two recent appellate decisions strongly rebuke the National Labor Relations Board's expansion of remedies beyond r... (more story)

5 Bonus Plan Compliance Issues In Financial Services

As several legal constraints — including a new California debt repayment law taking effect in January — tighten ar... (more story)

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)

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COVID Changes Still Affecting Union Talks 5 Years On

The COVID-19 pandemic forced employers and unions to make sweeping changes to how they negotiate labor contracts, and while many of the changes went away with the health emergency, attorneys said some are stil... (more story)

6 December Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch

Workers who say Prudential mismanaged their retirement savings will ask the Third Circuit to reinstate their class action, while a union pension fund will ask the Eighth Circuit to put General Electric back on... (more story)

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Teamsters Say UPS' 'Roadie' Siphons Off Union Work

A Teamsters unit has sued UPS in Illinois federal court, alleging the company is undermining a collective bargaining agreement covering about 10,000 workers in Chicago by giving bargaining unit work to a subsi... (more story)

Delta Retirees Seek Court Clearance For Benefits Class Action

A retired flight attendant accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts asked a Nevada federal court to grant her case class action sta... (more story)

Unions Say More Info Is Needed In DOGE Data Access Dispute

A union coalition urged a New York federal judge Monday to order the federal government to disclose how much access to federal workers' personal information it gave the Department of Government Efficiency and ... (more story)

SEIU Says Fired Worker Missed Deadline In Bias Suit

A Service Employees International Union unit is seeking a quick exit from an ex-employee's suit alleging that the union failed to represent her after a Philadelphia hospital fired her while she was on medical ... (more story)

NJ Panel Confirms Utility Co. Misclassified Workers

A New Jersey utility systems installer should have classified workers on public projects under the prevailing wages for electricians, a New Jersey appellate panel said Tuesday, affirming the state Department o... (more story)

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2nd Circ. Revives Bid For SSA Disability Benefits Over Anxiety

An administrative law judge must reconsider the Social Security Administration's denial of a former security guard's disability benefits, a split Second Circuit panel found, concluding that the judge needs to ... (more story)

Nurse For App-Based Health Co. Can't Revive Retaliation Suit

A Washington appeals court refused to revive a nurse's suit claiming she was fired from an app-based medical provider for complaining that it underpaid and overworked independent contractors, ruling she failed... (more story)

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Feds' Claim Against Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban Tossed

The D.C. Circuit's chief judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's misconduct complaint against the federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serv... (more story)

5 Argument Sessions Bias Attys Should Watch In Dec.

The Sixth and Ninth circuits will consider the scope of a 2022 law barring mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment and assault claims, and the Fourth Circuit will review whether HIV-positive prospective se... (more story)

6th Circ. Backs Theater In Ex-Manager's Sex Harassment Suit

A former movie theater manager can't reopen her lawsuit claiming her boss' repeated requests for a date and inappropriate comments created an unlawfully toxic workplace, with the Sixth Circuit ruling Tuesday t... (more story)

Court Rejects Cherokee Entity's Push To End Bias Dispute

A Missouri federal court judge won't reconsider an order that denied a bid by a Cherokee Nation entity to dismiss a discrimination claim lodged last year by a former employee, saying it failed to show why a se... (more story)

Texas Woman Says Business Group CEO Assaulted Her

The founder of a Texas business advocacy group is suing the state's largest business association and its CEO, saying he maneuvered his way to head her group and used his leverage to try to coerce her into a se... (more story)

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Wage & Hour Features Revisited: Enforcement, Military Leave

From a deep dive into paid military leave to a multifaceted look at workers' rights policy and enforcement in the Trump era, catch up on Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour stories from November.

Abbott Accused Of Miscalculating Workers' Overtime

Abbott Laboratories miscalculated employees' overtime by failing to include periodic award pay in the regular rate of pay when they worked more than 40 hours per week, a former employee said in a proposed coll... (more story)

9th Circ. Offers Mixed Ruling On Jack In The Box Wage Claims

A trial must address whether Jack in the Box willfully deducted too much from workers' wages, the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday, flipping workers' win on claims the fast-food company over-deducted their wages... (more story)

4th Circ. OKs Fees In Health Co. Workers' OT Suit

A healthcare company must pay $410,000 in attorney fees and costs in overtime suits filed by nearly a dozen former employees, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a lower court's calculations after init... (more story)

Health System Can't Dodge Worker's Time-Rounding Claims

An Ohio county health system can avoid a nursing assistant's claim that it failed to pay semimonthly wages on time, but she can continue pursuing her claims that the company illegally rounded down workers' tim... (more story)

Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF

Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.

Colo. Hospitals Accused Of Denying Workers Break Pay

A respiratory therapist told a Colorado state court that two hospitals violated state labor laws by neglecting to pay employees for missed breaks during shifts.