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NFL Hiring Bias Ruling Signals Trend Away From Arbitration

A New York federal court's recent decision in Flores v. NFL, declining to compel arbitration in a class action all... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Harassment At Work After Epstein Files

The recent release of millions of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has renewed a move... (more story)

New NLRB GC Likely To Prioritize Efficiency Over Policy Shifts

After the National Labor Relations Board operated without a quorum for nearly a year, general counsel Crystal Care... (more story)

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NLRB Office Clears Netflix In Memo Over Social Media Case

Federal labor law didn't protect a Netflix worker's social media post that included a password-protected link to a meeting that contained confidential business information, National Labor Relations Board attor... (more story)

VA Must Restore Union Contracts, RI Judge Says

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must resume working with the unions that represent its employees, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Friday, granting a union coalition's request for a preliminary injun... (more story)

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NJ Steel Co. Dodged Union On Closure, Layoffs, NLRB Says

A shuttered New Jersey steel company violated federal labor law by largely snubbing its employees' union when it went out of business, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, saying the company had an obliga... (more story)

NYU Reaches Tentative Deal To End Faculty Union Strike

A United Auto Workers unit representing nontenured faculty at New York University has ended a two-day strike after reaching a "historic first contract" with the college, the union has announced.

Amazon Tells NLRB It Must See SoCal Drivers' Union Cards

Amazon should be allowed to force the Teamsters to hand over the union cards that drivers for an Amazon contractor signed in 2023, the company argued, asking the National Labor Relations Board to reverse a boa... (more story)

Judge Sides With Teamsters In Unilever Rehire Order Dispute

A Missouri federal judge has upheld an arbitrator's award requiring Unilever to rehire a worker it fired after accusing him of falsifying his reason for taking leave, rejecting the company's argument that the ... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: County Wants Workers' Vax Suit Tossed

In the next week, attorneys should watch for arguments in a suit by around 30 workers alleging Santa Clara County had a discriminatory COVID vaccination policy. Here's a look at that case and other labor and e... (more story)

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Airbus Engineer Couldn't Prove Bias In Firing, 11th Circ. Says

The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Airbus America of bias and retaliation from a Black former manufacturing engineer, saying that even though he established a "prima facie case of ... (more story)

Ex-Trackman For Union Pacific Awarded $700K In ADA Suit

A federal jury in Nebraska said Union Pacific should pay a former railroad maintenance worker over $700,000 for violating federal disability law by forcing him out because he had a limp.

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Justices To Review Nix Of Fired Atlanta DA Aide's Bias Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the dismissal of a bias suit from a former aide to Atlanta's district attorney, an appeal that turns on whether the district attorney's office should... (more story)

MLB Beats Ex-Scouts' Age Discrimination Suit, For Now

Major League Baseball and its teams have defeated a proposed class action claiming they systematically prevented older scouts from obtaining jobs, as a New York federal judge ruled the plaintiffs failed to sho... (more story)

DC Narrows Black Cops' Systemic Gender, Race Bias Suit

A D.C. federal judge cut hostile work environment and retaliation claims from an expansive suit accusing the District of Columbia police of subjecting Black, female officers to systemic race and gender bias, f... (more story)

Boston Police Commissioner Beats Demoted Deputy's Suit

Boston's police commissioner defeated a civil rights suit brought by a deputy who was demoted for accepting a post with an oversight commission, as a federal judge ruled Monday that taking a gig with a state a... (more story)

Trump Issues New DEI Order Aimed At Contractors

President Donald Trump has issued another executive order targeting diversity, equity and inclusion practices, this time requiring government contractors to agree that they won't engage in "racially discrimina... (more story)

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Pretrial Inmates' Forced Labor Claims Too Individual For Class

A group of detainees who performed kitchen work in California county jail can't snag class certification in their suit accusing the county and a correctional services company of forcing them to work without pa... (more story)

Marketing Co. Misclassified CEO's Home Staff, Suit Says

A marketing company misclassified employees working in a property management office on its CEO's private estate as independent contractors, denying them overtime wages, according to a proposed collective actio... (more story)

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Medical Courier Workers Misclassified, Owed OT, Suit Says

A medical courier company misclassified its couriers as independent contractors and failed to pay them overtime despite routinely requiring more than 40 hours of work per week, according to a suit filed Friday... (more story)

Bakeries Can't Dodge Trial Over Drivers' Worker Status

A jury will have to determine whether Flowers Foods and two other entities misclassified two distributors as independent contractors who created their own company to deliver goods, a Massachusetts federal judg... (more story)

Angi Hit With Wage Suit Over 'Aggressive' Quotas

Home services platform Angi Inc. failed to pay employees for off-the-clock work performed to meet "aggressive" sales quotas and other performance metrics, according to a proposed collective action filed in Col... (more story)

Boeing Failed To Pay For Shuttle Time, Suit Says

Boeing has not paid its workers for the time they spent traveling between a remote parking lot and its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing facility, resulting in unpaid overtime wages, according to a proposed class a... (more story)

Up Next At High Court: Birthright Citizenship, Arbitration

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its March oral arguments session by hearing a nationwide class's blockbuster challenge to President Donald Trump's limited view of birthright citizenship, as well as a dis... (more story)