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The Fourth Circuit refused on Friday to revive a suit from a former AstraZeneca manager who said she was terminated for complaining that male colleagues were paid more, saying that her retaliation claims hinged on "speculation" and that the men she compared salaries with worked for a different division of the company.
Workers are likely to continue the trend of bringing lawsuits seeking pre- and post-shift compensation under state wage and hour statutes now that Illinois' high court has ruled that its law doesn't incorporate federal exemptions freeing employers from paying for such work, attorneys said.
The Teamsters are seeking to persuade the U.S. Department of Justice to step in and block a proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery unless it includes protections for workers, as organized labor looks to continue a role in antitrust it carved out during the Biden administration.
Michael Passarella
After the National Labor Relations Board operated without a quorum for nearly a year, general counsel Crystal Care... (more story)
Angelo Spinola, Jack Blum and Liam Whitaker
Following recent amendments to New York City's Earned Safe and Sick Time Act that expand its uses, give employees ... (more story)
Allan King and Stephen Bronars
To avoid illogical outcomes, the Third Circuit, in Cartee-Haring and Marinello v. Central Bucks School District, s... (more story)
A hydro-excavation company must submit to an audit by a union pension fund, an Indiana federal judge ruled Friday, agreeing with the fund that the company is contractually obligated to do so.
A pilots labor union hit JetBlue Airways with a lawsuit in New York federal court Thursday, seeking to force the airline to arbitrate pilots' contract dispute over its Blue Sky partnership with United Airlines... (more story)
The Ninth Circuit has upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding that a medical imaging facility company violated a settlement agreement by failing to rehire a former employee, finding that there... (more story)
An Illinois appeals court has partially revived a lawsuit alleging that a candidate for a secretary treasurer position at a Chicago Fire Fighters Union local made defamatory Facebook comments about his campaig... (more story)
A Kentucky federal judge has determined that a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Department of Transportation's more than 40-year-old Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program for women- and minority-owned ... (more story)
A New York federal judge will consider on Tuesday whether to grant final approval to a $300,000 settlement in a class and collective action accusing a healthcare company of violating federal and state wage and... (more story)
The Eighth Circuit should nix a $220,000 penalty imposed on BNSF Railway by the U.S. Department of Labor's whistleblower tribunal, the railway argued, claiming the tribunal lacks the authority under the U.S. C... (more story)
A former employee of a global human resources association who won an $11.5 million jury award in a discrimination lawsuit asked a Colorado federal judge to award her more than $500,000 in attorney fees.
The city of Denver and three of its officials retaliated and discriminated against the Denver International Airport's general counsel for refusing to follow certain city directives that the attorney says could... (more story)
Sysco's failure to turn over information has "hampered" a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into allegations that the food distributor discriminated against Black and female job seeker... (more story)
New York and a labor union must face a former employee's suit claiming she was fired for requesting Saturdays off to observe the Sabbath, a federal judge ruled, saying it was unclear whether granting her accom... (more story)
A battery company has been slapped with a proposed class action by three supervisors at a Georgia manufacturing facility who claim they were retaliated against for opposing discriminatory pay practices that be... (more story)
A federal jury in Atlanta found that a former car sales associate who said the dealership she worked for suspended and then fired her after she complained about being inappropriately touched should get $584,00... (more story)
A Chicago suburb has sued the law firm Odelson Murphey Frazier & McGrath in Illinois state court, asking a Cook County judge to block its involvement in a federal lawsuit brought by a former city employee accu... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether... (more story)
The White House directed Congress to preempt "burdensome" state laws on artificial intelligence in a legislative framework released Friday.
CGL Irwin Properties LLC must face a lawsuit brought by former detainees of a Georgia immigration detention center who alleged they were forced to work for the private prison company for as little as $1 a day,... (more story)
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., reintroduced a bill that would allow incarcerated workers to receive the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a push that the senator said would end "exploitative practice... (more story)
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit en banc oral arguments in a jurisdictional dispute involving two unions, the National Labor Relations Board and the precedent known as Kinde... (more story)
An Arizona trucking company shorted drivers on overtime pay by deducting time from the hours they spent conducting vehicle inspections and repairs before and after their trips, according to a proposed collecti... (more story)
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative LLC run by Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan discriminated against women by routinely paying them less than men and promoting them with less fre... (more story)
A data analyst contracted to work for a Washington, D.C.-based technology company was hit with a federal jury verdict finding him guilty of conducting a cyber extortion scheme that threatened to disclose emplo... (more story)
A Utah federal judge has declined to reinstate a trade secrets dispute between two Canadian construction companies, saying the suing company has not explained how a no-longer-pending summary judgment motion in... (more story)
Law firm retreats should be approached strategically, as they present valuable opportunities to advance both the firm's objectives and attorneys' professional development through meaningful participation, buil... (more story)