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What's Missing From Latest Gov't Claims Against Harvard

The most interesting thing about the Trump administration’s recent civil rights enforcement efforts targeting Harv... (more story)

Preparing For New Calif. Pay Data Reporting Requirements

California's S.B. 464 overhauls the state's pay data reporting framework by requiring employers to use job categor... (more story)

Pension Case Offers Entertainment Work Exception Insights

A recent Ninth Circuit decision clarified that any amount of entertainment work can satisfy the entertainment indu... (more story)

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USW Wins $50K In Back Pay For Laid-Off Ala. Steelworker

The operator of a shuttered coal processing plant in Birmingham, Alabama, must give a former employee about $50,000 in back pay after laying him off in violation of a union contract's seniority rules, an Alaba... (more story)

6th Circ. Backs Toss Of Construction Co.'s Union Fund Fight

The Sixth Circuit on Friday said it won't revive a construction company's lawsuit alleging that trustees for an International Union of Operating Engineers local's fringe and health benefit funds refused to acc... (more story)

Trader Joe's Says 5th Circ. Panel Ducked Thryv Challenge

Trader Joe's called on the full Fifth Circuit Friday to rethink parts of a panel decision enforcing the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it illegally fired a worker, saying it did enough to challe... (more story)

NLRB Official Drops Hospital Worker's Bid To Oust Union

A National Labor Relations Board official has dismissed a worker's bid to oust a Service Employees International Union unit from a Pennsylvania hospital, ruling that a tentative agreement between the union and... (more story)

Union Claims Gov't Shutdown Let Window Co. Sabotage Vote

A glaziers union only lost its representation election at a Maryland window installer because the government shutdown delayed the vote and the company used the delay as an opportunity to lay off several union ... (more story)

Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

Calif. Forecast: Apple Seeks Toss Of Expert In OT Suit

In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a hearing on whether to exclude expert testimony in an overtime class action against Apple. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matt... (more story)

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Colo. Doctor Says Centura Lacks Proof For Mitigation Defense

A doctor who claims Centura Health recruited him for an in-house position and took back a job offer after he disclosed that he was suffering symptoms of burnout asked a judge in Colorado federal court to toss ... (more story)

11th Circ. Says Waffle House Isn't Liable For Patron's Stabbing

The Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday that Waffle House is not liable for injuries caused by an off-duty employee who stabbed an argumentative customer with a waffle pick, finding a reasonable jury could not concl... (more story)

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2nd Circ. Backs Smith & Nephew In Paternity Leave Bias Suit

The Second Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a former Smith & Nephew worker's suit claiming he was fired from the medical device company for requesting paternity leave, stating he failed to overcome evide... (more story)

Georgetown Beats Ex-Worker's Bias Suit Over Online Posts

Georgetown University defeated a suit claiming it unlawfully fired a Black, Muslim administrator because of years-old social media posts she made disparaging Jewish activists, with a D.C. federal judge ruling ... (more story)

FedEx Inks $280K Deal To End EEOC Remote Work Bias Suit

FedEx has agreed to pay $280,000 to close a suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming it required dispatchers to return to in-person work following the COVID-19 pandemic even if they ... (more story)

NYC Fights Sanctions Over Discovery In IVF Sex Bias Dispute

New York City urged a federal judge to reject a gay couple's sanctions bid in their suit claiming a municipal health plan blocked them from receiving in vitro fertilization coverage out of discrimination, call... (more story)

5th Circ. Won't Revive Former Houston Employee's Bias Suit

The Fifth Circuit backed Houston's win over a former administrative specialist's lawsuit claiming it barred her husband from dropping her off close to work despite her physical disabilities, finding the city's... (more story)

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Boeing Mechanic Wage Class Action Takes Off In Wash.

Boeing has been accused of shorting thousands of Washington state mechanics and other airplane assembly workers on break time and forcing them to work off the clock, according to a proposed class action the ae... (more story)

Eatery Shorted Tipped Staff On Wages, Suit Says

A vegetarian restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, made servers share their tips with ineligible co-workers and regularly miscalculated what tipped-wage staff was owed, a former employee alleged in a complai... (more story)

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Delta Pay Range Suit Goes Back To Wash. State Court

A Delta Air Lines Inc. job applicant's proposed class action accusing the carrier of failing to include required pay information on job postings will return to Washington state court after a Seattle federal ju... (more story)

Cox Forced Call Center Staff To Work Off The Clock, Suit Says

Cox Communications and its Arizona subsidiary required call center representatives to do substantial off-the-clock work without pay, a former employee told a Georgia federal court Friday.

Drilling Co. Says Worker's Overtime Claims Lack Detail

An employee failed to plausibly allege that he was owed unpaid overtime or performed compensable pre-shift duties, a drilling services company has told a Utah federal court in its bid to escape a proposed clas... (more story)

$9.5M FedEx Security Screening Pay Deal Gets Initial OK

A Connecticut federal judge gave preliminary approval to a $9.5 million settlement between FedEx and workers at eight of its facilities in the state over unpaid time spent going through security screening befo... (more story)

NY Guards Say Security Cos. Labeled Them Contractors

Two related New York security companies and their owner misclassified guards as "self-contractors," denying them full wages, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court.