Expert Analysis

Trending Legal Implications Of Employee Influencer Programs

Employee-generated content is rapidly becoming a popular marketing strategy, as illustrated by Starbucks' new TikT... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Shifting Workplace Violence Responses

Amid recent threats of violence against artificial intelligence company executives and Jewish-owned businesses, em... (more story)

Limiting Employer Risk If Calif. Case Upends Time Rounding

The California Supreme Court's holdings in recent years suggest that it may tighten the rules for — or even elimin... (more story)

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NLRB Official Nixes Union Vote At NY Detention Facility

A National Labor Relations Board official has rejected a petition for a union representation election at a New York juvenile detention facility operator, finding that the company showed the workers in the prop... (more story)

Wash. Judge Trims Claims In Construction Wage Suit

A Washington federal judge has narrowed a carpenter apprentice's amended complaint alleging that a Seattle construction company shorted employees on wages for off-the-clock work, ruling that the claims involvi... (more story)

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Colo. County's Union-Law Suit Tossed Over Lack Of Standing

A Colorado federal judge dismissed a county board of commissioners' complaint Thursday for lack of standing after finding that the county sought prospective relief only from a state law expanding county employ... (more story)

NLRB Official Botched Union Ouster Petition, Aquarium Says

California's Monterey Bay Aquarium asked the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday to reverse a regional official's decision to delay processing a petition to decertify a union representing its workers, s... (more story)

Contractor Aided Teamsters Local Ouster, NLRB Judge Says

A military communications contractor violated federal labor law by unlawfully withdrawing recognition from a Teamsters unit, a National Labor Relations Board judge held, finding that the company aided in the d... (more story)

NLRB Won't Let Starbucks Shed Union Bargaining Claims

The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday rejected Starbucks' appeal of an order denying a board prosecutor's bid to withdraw claims that the company unlawfully changed its policies without bargaining wi... (more story)

NLRB Accused Of Botching Analysis In Unlawful Firing Case

A Detroit water infrastructure company has asked the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider its July decision that the company unlawfully fired a striker, saying the board didn't explain why a violation ... (more story)

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LSU Gets Damages Sliced In Attys' Pay Bias Suit

A Louisiana federal judge has slashed the damages awarded to two former in-house attorneys who won a retaliation verdict against their university employer over gender pay equity complaints, cutting each award ... (more story)

United Gets Flight Attendant's Sex Harassment Suit Narrowed

A Colorado federal judge trimmed but refused to completely toss a flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines failed to prevent a former pilot from stalking and distributing intimate images of her with... (more story)

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4th Circ. Won't Reinstate Firefighter Trainee's Age Bias Suit

The Fourth Circuit declined Thursday to revive a firefighter hopeful's suit claiming he was cut from a training academy out of age bias, after crediting evidence that he was actually let go because he struggle... (more story)

Johns Hopkins Hit With Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

Johns Hopkins University was hit with a complaint in California federal court alleging it impaired a graduate student's educational access and retaliated against her after she returned from a pregnancy-related... (more story)

NJ Town CFO Says Retaliation Followed Cancer Disclosure

The chief financial officer for a Garden State municipality alleged in New Jersey state court that her job duties were diminished in retaliation for her reporting improper cash handling and requesting time off... (more story)

CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel U... (more story)

Mich. City Ignored Harassment Of Muslim Worker, Suit Says

Workers for a city in Michigan mocked a Muslim colleague for her religious beliefs and gossiped about her history of sexual assault after her supervisor learned of the incident through a police database, accor... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Remote Worker Rebuts Boot-Up Pay Defense At 6th Circ.

A remote healthcare call center worker urged the Sixth Circuit to reverse her former employers' partial win in her suit seeking pay for computer boot-up and shutdown time, arguing the companies are wrong to ch... (more story)

Smoke Shop Chain Misclassified Workers, Owes OT, Suit Says

A chain of Houston-area smokeshops and their owners allegedly misclassified their employees as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, according to a worker-led lawsuit filed in Texas federal court s... (more story)

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1st Circ. Revives Water Workers' Prevailing Wage Claims

Water utility workers who alleged that their employer shortchanged them on prevailing wages won a second chance at their claims after the First Circuit sent the case back to a lower court, finding that a Massa... (more story)

Elevance Health Gets Final OK On $14.75M Nurse OT Deal

A Virginia federal court granted final approval Thursday to a $14.75 million global settlement resolving five related suits against Elevance Health by nurses who accused the insurer of misclassifying them as e... (more story)

Cannabis Co. Fights Class Status In Tipped Wages suit

Cannabis dispensary company Curaleaf Holdings urged an Illinois federal court Tuesday not to allow workers to proceed as a class and collective with their tipped wages claims, saying its tip practices didn't s... (more story)

Guard Says Security Co. Denies Pay For Pre-Shift Work

A Colorado security guard has sued his employer in federal court, alleging the company denies him and hundreds of other guards pay for pre-shift work, interrupts meal and rest breaks and contacts workers off the clock.

NY Says Contractors' Prevailing Wage Suit Falls Flat

The State of New York urged a federal judge to toss construction industry groups' challenge to a new prevailing wage requirement for off-site custom fabrication, arguing the law constitutionally applies to wor... (more story)