Expert Analysis

7 Tips For Employers On Calif. Decision-Making Tech Rules

Over the next eight months, many California employers must prepare to comply with challenging new requirements und... (more story)

Employer Tips As Calif. Law Rewrites Retention Pay Rules

California's recent enactment of A.B. 692 disrupts how employers structure sign-on bonuses, retention payments and... (more story)

What To Know About NY's Employment Credit Check Ban

An amendment to the New York state Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting applicants' or employees' consumer credit... (more story)

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Starbucks Wins 5th Circ. Bid To Scrap NLRB Subpoena Order

The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order that dinged Starbucks for sending overbroad subpoenas to pro-union employees, saying in a published opinion that the board applied the... (more story)

VW Says NLRB Forcing Bargaining After Anti-Union Vote

The National Labor Relations Board is pursuing an "unconstitutional administrative proceeding" against Volkswagen's U.S. arm, the automaker told a Texas federal court Friday, saying the NLRB is attempting to f... (more story)

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Starbucks Accuses Union Of Bad Faith Bargaining

Starbucks has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Workers United, accusing the union of refusing to bargain and pushing a "false narrative" that the company had to be forced to resume bargaining.

NLRB Upholds Wrongful Firing Ruling Against Red Roof Inn

Red Roof Inn violated federal labor law by firing a worker shortly after she raised concerns about COVID-19 exposure in the workplace, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Friday, upholding an administrati... (more story)

Union, Google Fight Joint-Employer Ruling In Different Courts

A federal appeals court is on track to weigh in on whether Google must bargain with a content creators' union, but whether that court will be the Ninth Circuit or the D.C. Circuit is still an open question.

DOT Immigrant License Crackdown's Effects On Trucking

New lawsuits and a tricky compliance landscape have besieged a trucking industry navigating the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of restrictions on immigrant commercial truck drivers, as motor car... (more story)

Workers At 3 NJ Colleges Eligible For Union As Non-Managers

A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday upheld a state labor agency's finding that dozens of employees at three public colleges are eligible for union membership, rejecting the state's argument that the wor... (more story)

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9th Circ. Revives Doctor's PeaceHealth Whistleblower Suit

A Ninth Circuit panel has reinstated a psychiatrist's claims that PeaceHealth Inc. retaliated against him for expressing concerns about potential Medicaid fraud at a Washington hospital, concluding on Friday t... (more story)

States Seek Win To Restore DOE's Diversity Grant Cuts

Eight states have asked a Massachusetts federal judge to restore $160 million to federal programs providing professional development to new teachers cut by the U.S. Department of Education last year, which the... (more story)

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EEOC Says Halting Penn Subpoena Would Compromise Probe

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission argued in a federal court filing Friday that allowing the University of Pennsylvania to freeze the agency's subpoena for information on the school's Jewish empl... (more story)

Settlement Ends High Court Fight Over Arbitration Deference

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed in a now-settled case relating to a vacated arbitral award favoring a former water treatment company director, which sought clarity from the justic... (more story)

Systemic Bias Norm At Taiwan Semiconductor, Engineer Says

A software engineer for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has alleged the microchip-maker systematically discriminates against women by hiring them less frequently than men, underpaying women and fosterin... (more story)

11th Circ. Backs School District In Black Worker's Bias Suit

The Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a Black Alabama school district worker's suit claiming she was transferred to a different job out of racial discrimination, ruling her employer showed the de... (more story)

Baltimore Hospital Must Face EEOC Disability Bias Suit

A Baltimore-area hospital can't defeat a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it unlawfully rescinded a nurse's job offer because she's deaf, with a Maryland federal judge saying a jur... (more story)

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Property Manager Hit With OT, Face Scan Privacy Class Action

A proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court accuses a multifamily property management company of deliberately paying its employees less overtime by making them work off the clock and of using techn... (more story)

Black Car Co. Can't Nix $236K Wage Verdict

A New York federal judge on Friday refused to upend a $236,000 jury verdict in favor of a group of drivers, rejecting a black car company's argument that the jury wrongly found the drivers were employees rathe... (more story)

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Healthcare AI Co. Seeks to Drop 3 From Wage Suit

A data science platform said Friday that a former executive, who claims he was not paid after investing $750,000 into the business, cannot drag three out-of-state people loosely connected to the company into a... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: 9th Circ. To Weigh Arb. Fight In Tesla Bias Suit

In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a discrimination case against Tesla Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.

NY Forecast: NYC Fights Uber And DoorDash's Tip Law Suit

In the week ahead, a federal judge will consider New York City's request to dismiss Uber and DoorDash's challenge to a pair of city laws that regulate how food delivery platforms display tipping options.

Workers Say Folded Boston Pot Shops Owe Them Pay

Former employees of two defunct Boston marijuana dispensaries, both called Pure Oasis, are suing the companies behind the shops and their owners in Massachusetts state court, accusing them of failing to pay ou... (more story)

US Bank Shorted Wash. Workers On Meals, Breaks, Suit Says

U.S. Bank denied hourly employees meal and rest breaks, and shorted them on overtime and sick leave pay, two former workers alleged in a proposed class action filed in Washington state court.