A federal judge approved $3 million in settlements that a group of workers reached with Puerto Rico's largest bank among other companies to resolve claims that they were stiffed on benefits after their retirem... (more story)

Amazon's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's order to bargain with workers at a Staten Island warehouse relies on "extraordinarily strained readings of the board's decision" to reject its objecti... (more story)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to consider Cemex's challenge to a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a National Labor Relations Board order requiring the builder to bargain with a Teamsters local beca... (more story)

A Workers United unit urged the D.C. Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board decision that a New York commercial laundry company unlawfully withdrew recognition from the union, arguing that the vio... (more story)

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is concerned that a ruling instructing trial courts to defer to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's interpretation of federal sentencing guidelines could blow a "pretty big... (more story)

The National Labor Relations Board should not reconsider a regional director's decision to approve a union's withdrawal of its petition to represent residential student leaders at Stanford University, the unio... (more story)

An academic proposal to stabilize National Labor Relations Board policy by reshaping the agency into a special court appears misguided despite its admirable goal, a Littler Mendelson PC policy advocate and the... (more story)

A former account manager at Flock sued the surveillance technology company in Texas federal court Monday, claiming she faced a sexist "boys club" culture in the workplace and got fired after complaining about it.

Abbott Laboratories has convinced a Michigan federal judge that a former employee's sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit belongs in Illinois. 

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide what type of evidence is needed to claim facially neutral admissions policies are racially discriminatory, after turning away two similar cases in the thr... (more story)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is close to nixing decades-old guidelines that help employers ensure that their hiring practices don't inadvertently discriminate against workers, after the pro... (more story)

BNSF Railway unlawfully fired an employee who asked to use a smaller hand tool during training to avoid exacerbating a genetic condition that causes chronic pain, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissi... (more story)

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the dismissal of a Black career counselor's race bias suit alleging a government contractor that aids veterans fired her out of discrimination, declining an invi... (more story)

A Texas appellate court has declined to send a former Whataburger employee's lawsuit to arbitration, finding that the allegations of unwanted sexual touching trigger a federal law that bars arbitration of sexu... (more story)

A staffing agency cannot force a former warehouse worker to arbitrate his wage claims, a California appeals court ruled, finding arbitration could lead to conflicting rulings on claims brought by other workers... (more story)

Steakhouse servers should benefit from a decision issued by the Connecticut Supreme Court, and then adopted by the Second Circuit, that held Amazon must pay its warehouse workers for time spent going through s... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Labor withdrew on Monday three decades-old opinion letters limiting when employers can pay tipped workers less than the federal minimum wage for work that doesn't generate tips.

A home healthcare company will pay $2.3 million to settle a suit alleging that it failed to pay home care providers minimum wages and overtime by classifying them as independent contractors, according to an or... (more story)

Amazon warehouse workers urged the Second Circuit on Thursday to reject the company's argument that New York wage law follows federal restrictions on pay for work before and after shifts, saying the state neve... (more story)

A legal technology company abruptly fired its director of partnerships after it learned she was pregnant, and has since withheld a nearly $40,000 bonus, according to a lawsuit lodged in New Jersey state court.

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in an arbitration dispute in a proposed wage and hour class action against a medical center. Here's a look at that case and other labo... (more story)