Expert Analysis

NLRB Likely To Fill Vacuum After NMB Jurisdiction Ruling

The National Mediation Board's recent ruling in Swissport Cargo Services LP abandoned decades of precedent by conc... (more story)

What To Expect From EEOC Next Year After An Active 2024

While highlights this year for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission include its first-ever Pregnant Wo... (more story)

Ledbetter's Legacy Shines In 2024 Equal Pay Law Updates

The federal Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act turned 15 this year, and its namesake's legacy is likely to endure in 202... (more story)

Labor More

NLRB Says Co. Couldn't Ask Worker To Remove Union Sticker

A beverage company engaged in unfair labor practices when it asked a worker to remove a union sticker from his coverall, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, flipping a judge's decision that the company w... (more story)

Yellow Corp. Layoff Notices Had Too Little Info, Judge Says

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has shot down some of trucking company Yellow Corp.'s defenses against claims it failed to give proper notice of more than 25,000 layoffs just before it entered Chapter 11, saying t... (more story)

The NLRB unanimously upheld judges' violation findings against Starbucks and largely agreed on the remedies for those violations, but the board’s members were divided on one remedy: a cease-and-desist order.  (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via AP)
NLRB Members Disagree On Remedy In Starbucks Cases

A pair of National Labor Relations Board judges correctly found that Starbucks illegally fought unionization in Los Angeles and Wichita, Kansas, but the judges overstepped by issuing broad cease-and-desist ord... (more story)

Unionized Starbucks Workers Launch 5-Day Strike

Starbucks baristas in unionized stores in Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago have gone on strike, Starbucks Workers United has announced, saying the union plans to spread the strike to other markets across the c... (more story)

Florida Orchestra Unlawfully Declared Impasse, NLRB Says

A Florida symphony orchestra had not reached an impasse during contract negotiations with a musicians union when it imposed its final offer in 2020, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, overturning th... (more story)

Top Pa. Cases Of 2024: Elon Musk, Johnny Doc, Uber Drivers

This year was a standout for high-profile legal battles in Pennsylvania, from a blockbuster verdict against Monsanto over its Roundup weedkiller to the Philadelphia district attorney's fight with Elon Musk ove... (more story)

NLRB, Post-Gazette Trade Barbs Over Bad Faith Bargaining

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have squared off in dueling briefs in Pennsylvania federal court over whether the newspaper bargained in bad faith with its workers' u... (more story)

Discrimination More

Buzbee Pans Jay-Z's 'Astonishing' Sanctions Bid In Diddy Suit

Personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee urged a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to reject Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's "astonishing request" to change the rules for a sanctions motion in rape litigation against the rap... (more story)

Ex-NFL Stadium Manager Sues For Disability Discrimination

A former operations manager at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, claims he was illegally fired because of panic attacks he has suffered since he was badly burned in a fire while working for the ho... (more story)

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Texas County To Pay $1.65M To End Officers' Sex Bias Suit

Dallas County will pay $1.65 million to resolve a lawsuit claiming it unlawfully let only male detention center officers take full weekends off, closing a case that led the Fifth Circuit to broaden the range o... (more story)

Feds Back Straight Worker's Suit Alleging Pro-LGBTQ Bias

The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a heterosexual Ohio state employee's lawsuit claiming supervisors' bias toward LGBTQ workers cost her a promotion, saying the Sixth Circuit erred i... (more story)

Halliburton Tells High Court That Age Bias Battle Can't Go On

Halliburton told the U.S. Supreme Court that an ex-worker is attempting to create a "back door" to challenge an arbitration award that resolved his age bias suit, urging the justices to join the Tenth Circuit ... (more story)

Top North Carolina Cases Of 2024: Bias, Fraud And False Ads

North Carolina saw a host of heavy-hitting civil trials in 2024, from back-to-back multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in suits over false advertising and employment discrimination, to a substantial bench ruling... (more story)

Mortgage Firm Should Face Sex Harassment Suit, Judge Says

A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday recommended not granting summary judgment to CrossCountry Mortgage LLC and a branch manager in a former employee's sexual harassment and retaliation suit.

Wage & Hour More

Bally's Hit With Suit Over Casino Dealer Tip Withholding

Gaming table operators at Bally's Corp. and its Dover Casino have accused the businesses of violating Delaware's wage and hour law, alleging that their pay was improperly calculated based on tipped worker rate... (more story)

Biggest Washington Decisions Of 2024

Washington courts in 2024 saw a state judge permanently block Kroger's planned $24.6 billion purchase of Albertsons, just about an hour after an Oregon federal judge reached a similar decision, leading the deal to collapse.

4th Circ. Turns Away Wage Suit Sanctions Fight

The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that a worker cannot undo sanctions imposed against him over allegations about a co-worker's death that he included in his overtime suit, saying a North Carolina district court'... (more story)

Acidizing Co. Reaches Deal To Resolve Unpaid OT Suit

An acidizing services company reached a deal with workers who accused the company of unlawfully failing to pay them overtime wages and dropped an appeal to the Tenth Circuit over a collective certification ord... (more story)

Biggest Colorado Decisions Of 2024

The Colorado Supreme Court shocked legal experts in 2024 when it walked back a landmark tenants rights ruling based on a technicality. In another case, three justices called for the elimination of peremptory c... (more story)

TikTok Sales Reps Say OT Suit Deserves Collective Cert.

Several TikTok sales representatives said they shared the same job duties and that the social media company applied the same unlawful policy of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt, urging a California feder... (more story)

Calif. Appeals Court Upends Arbitration Denial In OT Suit

A California appeals court partially reversed a ruling that real estate company CoStar cannot arbitrate a proposed class action accusing it of failing to pay workers overtime, finding the arbitration agreement... (more story)