5th Circ. Panel Blushes At Starbucks Worker's Snapchat Notes

A Fifth Circuit panel pressed the National Labor Relations Board to explain why Starbucks lacks the ability to fire a union organizer who used excessively colorful language in private messages to co-workers, saying Monday the language used would "make any of us blush."

6th Circ. Says High Court Ruling Buoys Bias Suit Against GM

The Sixth Circuit reinstated a male General Motors worker's sex bias suit claiming he got harsher discipline than a female colleague, ruling Monday that his case needs a second look after the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the standards for discrimination cases brought by workers in majority groups.

Statue of lady justice surrounded by text books

What To Know About NJ's Family Leave Expansion

A recent update to New Jersey’s family leave law brings more workers under its coverage and therefore means a big shift for employers, Jackson Lewis PC principal David Islinger said. Islinger spoke with Law360 about the New Jersey Family Leave Act amendments.

Expert Analysis

Justices' BDO Denial May Allow For Increased Auditor Liability

Dean Conway

The Supreme Court's recent denial of certiorari in BDO v. New England Carpenters could lead to more actions filed ... (more story)

Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: January Lessons

Mitchell Engel

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five rulings from October ... (more story)

What US Cos. Must Know To Comply With Italy's AI Law

Ilaria Curti, Laura Liguori and Jeremy Maltby

Italy's newly effective artificial intelligence law means U.S. companies operating in Italy or serving Italian cus... (more story)

Labor More

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

What happened to a GOP donor's $250,000 Swiss watch? Can cigarette warnings show jarring medical images? Will a circuit split of "far-reaching importance" for arbitration get even wider? That's a taste of the ... (more story)

Custodians Tell NJ Justices COVID Law Doesn't Preempt CBA

School custodians urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday to reinstate an award of extra money for their in-person work during the pandemic, arguing an arbitrator had a reasonably plausible interpretation... (more story)

A nurse wearing blue scrubs and white gloves assists a patient with blood glucose testing
NLRB Judge Says Mass. Hospital Illegally Banned Union Reps

A Massachusetts hospital violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing a policy regarding when a nurse's union could access the facility and banning union representatives from the hospital, a National La... (more story)

DC Airports Not Using Project Labor Agreements, Unions Say

Construction industry unions have accused the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority of refusing to comply with a resolution requiring project labor agreements on construction projects worth $35 million or... (more story)

Teamsters Look To Ax Kraft Heinz's Challenge To Grievance

Kraft Heinz shouldn't be allowed to scuttle a benefits fight by arguing that it should have been routed through the company healthcare plan's dispute resolution process, a Teamsters local told a Delaware feder... (more story)

NLRB Defends Starbucks Threat Findings At 9th Circ.

Starbucks can't challenge a new restriction on employer speech that the National Labor Relations Board set out in a decision knocking the company's response to a Seattle union drive because the board only appl... (more story)

Air Contractor Opposes NLRB Jurisdiction In Union Row

A cargo handling contractor urged the National Labor Relations Board to reverse an official's decision to certify the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers as the bargaining representat... (more story)

Discrimination More

Calif. Justices Revive 'Unreadable' Arbitration Agreement Suit

In a 6-1 decision, the California Supreme Court clarified on Monday that courts must "closely scrutinize the terms of difficult-to-read contracts for unfairness or one-sidedness," but the "illegibility" — font... (more story)

Curaleaf Can't Ditch All Ill. Whistleblower Act Claims

An Illinois magistrate judge on Monday mostly denied a bid from Curaleaf Inc. to throw out a former regional director's Illinois Whistleblower Act claims, saying the complaint is sufficient to allege that he w... (more story)

Rows of dozens of clear medicine bottles with white and blue labels that read COVID-19 VACCINE are lined up behind a silver statue of Lady Justice who is blindfolded, holding up the scales of justice in one hand and a sword pointing downward in the other
8th Circ. Rejects Minn. Health Worker's COVID-19 Suit

The Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that the Minnesota Department of Human Services didn't illegally fail to exempt a Catholic employee from mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated individuals, saying t... (more story)

EEOC Calls School Board's Bias Probe Challenge Premature

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a New Mexico federal judge to toss a school board's challenge to an agency investigation into alleged hiring discrimination against Native Americans, argu... (more story)

Philly Art Museum Wins Bid To Arbitrate CEO's Firing Suit

Former Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO Alexandra "Sasha" Suda's lawsuit against the museum alleging that a "corrupt faction" in its leadership forced her out of her position must be handled in arbitration, a ci... (more story)

Worker Fired After Bias Claim Should Get $5M, Jury Says

A Utah federal jury awarded a former human resources worker $5 million in her retaliation suit claiming a hospice provider fired her as punishment for lodging an age and gender bias charge with the U.S. Equal ... (more story)

Wollmuth Maher Picks Up Attys From Paul Hastings, SDNY

Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP has added the longtime leader of Paul Hastings LLP's New York employment law department and has bolstered its white collar bench by bringing in a veteran former assistant U.S. attorney.

Wage & Hour More

Worker Claims Univ. Of Colorado Health Underpaid Wages

University of Colorado Health routinely shortchanged its hourly employees of wages under the healthcare system's rounding policy, a former UC Health worker alleged in a proposed collective and class action in ... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Revives IHS Nurse's COVID Overtime Case

A former nurse for the Indian Health Service adequately supported her claims that she's owed wages for work she performed during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Circuit ruled, tossing the C... (more story)

Bikini Barista Boss Says Wash. AG Defamed Him In Wage Suit

The owner of Seattle-area Paradise Espresso stands slammed the Washington State Office of the Attorney General on Monday for filing a wage theft and employment discrimination lawsuit "containing known falsehoo... (more story)

Company Agrees To Pay $18M To Settle Truckers' Wage Suit

A Nebraska-based trucking company agreed to pay $18 million to nearly 100,000 current and former drivers to end a more than 11-year-old consolidated class action over unpaid minimum wages, reaching a deal the ... (more story)

Mail Carriers Can't Bring OT Suit Against USPS In NJ

The mail carriers who accused the U.S. Postal Service of automatically deducting time for meal breaks they didn't take failed to show any connection to New Jersey beyond residence, a federal judge ruled, agree... (more story)

Uber Eats, Others To Pay Workers $5M In Wage Deal With NYC

Uber Eats and two other food delivery platforms will pay more than $5 million in total to nearly 50,000 workers in New York City for violating the city's minimum wage requirements for delivery workers, Mayor Z... (more story)

NYC Says Instacart Can't Pause Wage Laws Under Appeal

Instacart cannot pause New York City wage laws for some delivery workers while it appeals an order denying a bid to halt enforcement, the city told a federal court, arguing the company has not shown irreparabl... (more story)