A year after the California Supreme Court upheld a state law provision regarding the payment of arbitration fees, employers no longer have to fear that inadvertently late payments will cause wage claims to return to court, but they could have to show that delayed payments were not willful or grossly negligent.
The D.C. Circuit won't rethink its decision that a Vermont software company illegally fired an employee for creating a spreadsheet for coworkers to share their salaries, according to a Wednesday order, rejecting claims that the circuit court wrongly rejected its challenge to ordered remedies in the case.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Washington University in St. Louis on Wednesday, alleging it terminated a Black senior program manager because she had filed a complaint over a diversity training that had singled her out because of her race.