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Clippers Salary Cap Probe Offers Investigation Tips For Cos.

The NBA's recent investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules offers an unusu... (more story)

NY Severance Rules Persist Despite McLaren Macomb Threat

Despite recent calls to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's decision in McLaren Macomb, New York's robus... (more story)

Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks

Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes... (more story)

Labor More

Union Illegally Rejected Member's Resignation, Ruling Says

A Michigan electrical workers union has unlawfully refused to accept a member's resignation and fined him more than $6,000 for starting his own contracting business, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.

Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Union Can't Arbitrate Quarrel Over Kraft Retiree Benefits

A Delaware federal judge blocked a Teamsters union from arbitrating claims that the Kraft Heinz Company improperly withheld health benefits from retirees, ruling the parties' collective bargaining agreement ma... (more story)

NLRB Official Tosses Union's Petition At Ind. Transport Co.

A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office has tossed a union's bid to represent a nationwide bargaining unit of employees at an Indiana-based transportation company, finding t... (more story)

Unions, Nonprofits Get USDA Reorganization Plan Blocked

A California federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from closing offices and reshuffling staff, saying the department's planned reorganization likely amounted to "reprogrammin... (more story)

Atty Sanctioned For Vulgar Emails To Opposing Counsel

A Texas federal magistrate judge has sanctioned an attorney who serves as principal for an oil and gas exploration company locked in a trade secret misappropriation case with a rival after opposing counsel com... (more story)

IBEW Union Hall Wants Out Of COVID-19 Loan Fraud Suit

An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Boston asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to toss claims that it committed fraud by collecting a COVID-19 relief loan it wasn't eligi... (more story)

Discrimination More

11th Circ. Backs Allegiant Win Over Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

The Eleventh Circuit refused to reopen a Black former Allegiant Airlines employee's suit alleging she was fired for complaining to the CEO that white colleagues were harassing her and making racist jokes, find... (more story)

Firm Fired Recruiter For Flagging $20K Bonus Cut, Suit Says

Financial firm The Baldwin Group denied full wages and proper breaks and fired a former senior recruiter after she challenged a $20,000 cut to her promised bonus, according to a proposed class and collective a... (more story)

A medical marijuana company will pay $150,000 to a former employee, court documents said Wednesday, after the EEOC asked the court to OK a deal claiming the business violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to accommodate the ex-worker's seizure disorder.
Marijuana Co. Wraps Up EEOC Disability Bias Suit

A medical marijuana company will pay an ex-employee $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business fired her less than an hour after she asked to take breaks at w... (more story)

Solar Co. Failed To Stop Workers' Gay Slurs, Suit Says

A solar energy installation company fired two married employees who repeatedly complained that coworkers were harassing them and using homophobic slurs, the workers alleged Wednesday in Maine federal court.

Hegseth Trans Slur May Lead To Deposition, Judge Says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will have to answer questions in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's transgender troops ban, after a D.C. federal judge said Wednesday that his recent use of a slur ... (more story)

Union Says EEOC Can't Dodge Claims Of Class Action Freeze

The American Federation of Government Employees told a D.C. federal court not to toss a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of instructing administrative judges to pause federal e... (more story)

Feds Fight Top Court Review Of Ex-Defender's Sex Bias Suit

The federal judiciary has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a former assistant public defender's petition challenging its internal complaint process for workplace sex harassment, arguing the questions she... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Security Cos. Failed To Pay For Shift Handoffs, Guard Says

Two security companies failed to pay guards for work performed before their shifts started, shorted them on overtime pay and withheld earned vacation time, a security guard alleged Thursday in a proposed class... (more story)

Dog Hotel Accused Of Denying Pay For Off-Clock Work

A dog hotel chain failed to pay workers for time spent waiting to clock in, assisting customers and working through meal breaks, according to a proposed class action in California state court.

DOL Seeks To Extend USMCA Wage Records Collection

The U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday it is seeking a three-year extension of its authority to collect records used to verify that automakers meet wage standards tied to preferential tariffs under the Uni... (more story)

Warehouse Workers Win $1.55M Settlement In Wage Suit

Thousands of California warehouse workers have reached a $1.55 million settlement with a staffing company over allegations that they were denied proper meal and rest breaks and were not fully paid for their wo... (more story)

Amazon Workers Allege Unpaid Time At Exit Security Checks

Amazon.com Services LLC fails to pay its Washington warehouse workers for time spent in mandatory anti-theft security screenings when leaving its facilities, two former employees claimed in a proposed wage cla... (more story)

Ogletree Adds 8 Labor, Employment Attys From Fisher Phillips

Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins LLP said Wednesday it has hired eight attorneys from Fisher Phillips.

Court Vacates DOL Rulings In Trucker Prevailing Wage Case

An Illinois federal judge has set aside a U.S. Department of Labor ruling that found truck drivers on a federally funded construction project were entitled to prevailing wages for time spent waiting to load ma... (more story)