Expert Analysis

What The Minimum Wage Shift Means For Gov't Contractors

While President Donald Trump's recent executive order rescinding a 2021 increase to the federal contractor minimum... (more story)

6 Ways The Dole Act Alters USERRA Employment Protections

The recently passed Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act continues... (more story)

7 Things Employers Should Expect From Trump's OSHA Pick

If President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is confirmed, workpl... (more story)

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NY Judge Scrubs Groups' Anti-Congestion-Pricing Claims

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday rejected claims from local residents and community groups alleging New York's revised congestion pricing tolls wrongfully discriminated against out-of-state commuters and ... (more story)

Tenet Asks Court To Enforce Dead Arbitrator's $546K Award

Tenet Healthcare Corp. has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to require the Service Employees International Union to follow an arbitrator's final order to pay $546,000 after making derogatory statements,... (more story)

Starbucks contends that a challenge to an NLRB judge's decision that it filed 23 minutes late should have been accepted due to "excusable neglect," but a D.C. Circuit panel said the board's e-filing rules make clear that last-minute technological issues don't support such a showing. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
DC Circ. Says Lateness Doomed Starbucks' NLRB Challenge

The National Labor Relations Board was not obligated to accommodate Starbucks after its attorney filed a challenge to a board judge's ruling 23 minutes late, the D.C. Circuit ruled Thursday, holding that the b... (more story)

AFL-CIO, Unions Can Pursue Some DOGE Access Claims

The AFL-CIO, unions and advocacy groups may pursue allegations that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency lacks the power to access data from the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies, ... (more story)

Starbucks Dodged Union On Dress Code, NLRB Judge Says

Starbucks violated federal labor law by punishing workers for wearing union T-shirts at a store in Jacksonville, Florida, without negotiating with their union first, a National Labor Relations Board judge rule... (more story)

Littler Hires 5th DC Labor Atty From Akin In 4 Months

Littler Mendelson PC has hired another member of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's Washington, D.C., labor team, the fifth attorney from that group to move in the past four months, who helped represent the ... (more story)

NYC Strikes Deal To End Housing Workers' OT Suit

New York City struck a deal to resolve a housing development worker's collective action accusing it of running afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act by stiffing city employees on overtime wages, a federal court filing said.

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USPS Escapes Fired Worker's Sex Harassment Suit

A Washington federal judge sided with the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday in an ex-worker's harassment and retaliation suit claiming she was coerced into a sexual relationship by a supervisor and then fired fo... (more story)

EMT Org. Changes Scholarship Criteria To End Race Bias Suit

An emergency medical technician trade association told a Mississippi federal court Thursday it will change its diversity scholarship program criteria to remove conditions based on applicants' race or ethnicity... (more story)

Morgan Stanley challenged the award in April 2023, first in Georgia federal court before the case was transferred to North Carolina federal court. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
Morgan Stanley Ends Fight Over Worker's $1.6M Bias Award

Morgan Stanley and a former employee told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that they have reached a deal to end the financial giant's legal challenge to a $1.6 million arbitration award handed to the ex... (more story)

Jenner & Block Fights DOJ Bid To Toss Exec Order Suit

Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal court to reject the government's bid to dismiss its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, saying the "legal profes... (more story)

Ex-NJ Prosecutor Says Whistleblower Suit Should Go To Trial

A former deputy director of the Union County Prosecutor's Office who says she was demoted to "girl Friday" status after becoming a whistleblower told a state judge that her lawsuit should survive to go to tria... (more story)

Call Center Co. Agrees To End EEOC's Vision Bias Suit

A call center operator will pay $250,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the company fired a blind employee because she needed a screen reader, according to a Texas fede... (more story)

Beauty Lab Can't Bar Punitive Damages In EEOC Suit

An Idaho federal judge rejected a beauty product manufacturer's bid to take potential punitive damages off the table in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it wouldn't promote a Black ... (more story)

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Filipino Workers Say FEMA Contractor Cheated Them On Pay

A construction company with $88 million worth of Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts recruited 17 Filipino workers, promising fair wages and free housing, but instead cheated them out of pay and hous... (more story)

Rental Car Cos. Misclassify Workers, Suit Says

A staffing company and several rental car companies including Hertz incorrectly classify workers as independent contractors to save costs and avoid paying them overtime wages, according to a proposed class and... (more story)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that dismissed objections made by a pharmacist that a $10.4 million settlement between CVS and 24,000 employees was reached through collusion between the parties' attorneys. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
9th Circ. Tosses Objections To $10.4M CVS Wage Settlement

A pharmacist's objections to a $10.4 million settlement of a wage and hour class action affecting 24,000 CVS employees hold no weight, a Ninth Circuit panel found, ruling Thursday that a California federal jud... (more story)

'Latter-Day Machiavelli' Defamed Calif. Law Firm, Court Told

California employment law firm Lawyers for Justice PC has filed a suit in state court accusing one of its former clients of defamation in what the firm calls "a scorched-earth crusade against her former attorneys."

2nd Circ. Reverses Packaging Workers' Rejected Wage Deal

The Second Circuit gave workers another chance to win approval of their $840,000 deal with a packaging supplies manufacturer over claims of unpaid wages, saying a lower court shouldn't have considered their at... (more story)

Travel Tech Co. Accused Of Misclassifying Sales Workers

A travel technology company incorrectly classifies sales employees as exempt from earning overtime wages despite their job duties not falling under any overtime exemption, a proposed class action filed in Colo... (more story)

Ex-Dole Employee Can't Swap Other Worker Into PAGA Suit

A California trial court correctly prevented a former Dole employee from substituting himself in his Private Attorneys General Act case with another worker suing the company, a state appeals court ruled, sayin... (more story)