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Mixed Decisions On Captive Audience Bans Hinge On Details

Two divergent rulings on challenges to state laws restricting mandatory anti-union meetings suggest these measures' detractors have a chance to topple them over conflicts with federal law — if they can get courts to consider their arguments.

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2nd Circ. Backs Nightclub Worker's $2.7M Harassment Win

The Second Circuit upheld a $2.7 million jury win Thursday for a former nightclub manager who said her boss regularly sexually harassed her on the job and attempted to rape her, ruling the behavior she said she faced was severe enough to justify the multimillion-dollar figure. 

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DOL Brings Back Officials, Wage Policies From Trump Term 1

The return of former officials, a self-audit program and independent contractor and joint employment rulemaking mean the U.S. Department of Labor and its Wage and Hour Division are looking like they did in President Donald Trump’s first term, although observers say the agency is proceeding more aggressively. Here, Law360 explores how the agency is similar and different to how it was during the first Trump era.

Expert Analysis

H-2A Rule Rollback Sheds Light On 2 Policy Litigation Issues

Mark Stevens

The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administrat... (more story)

Employer Considerations As Ill. Ends Mandatory Fact-Finding

Kimberly Ross

Illinois recently eliminated mandatory fact-finding conferences, and while such meetings tend to benefit complaina... (more story)

Calif. Justices Usher In Stricter Era For Wage Law Ignorance

Brandy Alonzo-Mayland

In Iloff v. LaPaille, the California Supreme Court determined that neither an employer's ignorance of wage obligat... (more story)

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Ex-NFL Player Says League Policy Doesn't Steer THC Suit

A former NFL player is fighting to keep his discrimination lawsuit against the league and his former team alive in Colorado federal court, saying his claims that the NFL and the Denver Broncos punished him for... (more story)

Teamsters Want Court To Reconsider Maverick Gaming Sale

A Teamsters local asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to rethink his order permitting RunItOneTime LLC to sell assets to a company managed by one of its founders, saying the bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction to ... (more story)

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2 NLRB Picks Advance, 1 Member Nom Stalls

The U.S. Senate labor committee on Thursday cleared two of the president's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — including the general counsel pick whose nomination appeared stalled — but withheld a... (more story)

NASA Union Files Suit Challenging End Of Bargaining Rights

An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he vi... (more story)

Bakery Union Urges 6th Circ. To Keep Arbitration Ruling Intact

A Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers union local has urged the Sixth Circuit to keep an order to arbitrate an employee promotion grievance with snack company Kellanova, claiming the dispute... (more story)

Anti-Union Firm Joins Fight Against Calif. Cannabis Labor Law

An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circ... (more story)

Union Didn't Win Election Fairly, Nexstar Tells 2nd Circ.

A National Labor Relations Board order compelling Nexstar to bargain with workers at a New York news station should be vacated, the company told the Second Circuit, raising objections including that an NLRB ag... (more story)

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Weinstein Says Jurors Traded Threats, Tainting Verdict

Harvey Weinstein's legal team said his June sexual assault convictions were tainted by juror misconduct, including physical threats and an unfounded bribery claim, arguing in a motion for a new trial that a ju... (more story)

University Of Illinois Chicago, Black Director Settle Bias Suit

The University of Illinois Chicago and a Black former purchasing director have settled discrimination claims she lodged over pay discrepancies between herself and white colleagues with similar or less experien... (more story)

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Verizon Escapes Black Ex-Worker's Suit Over Racial Slur

Verizon defeated a Black ex-retail employee's lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully fired for uttering a racial slur to himself following a disagreement with a white co-worker, with a Pennsylvania federal judge s... (more story)

General Mills Workers Must Redo 'Behemoth' Race Bias Suit

A Georgia federal magistrate judge ordered a proposed class of General Mills employees alleging their plant is run by a white supremacist clique to rewrite their "behemoth" complaint, calling their claims "ver... (more story)

Hemp Co. Asks Del. Court To Defer Ex-Exec's Suit To Australia

An Australian hemp manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiaries asked a Delaware federal judge Thursday to dismiss or pause a lawsuit filed by a former executive-turned-whistleblower, arguing the case should be defe... (more story)

Federal Contracting Co. Worker Nabs Age Bias Trial Win

A Missouri federal jury said a federal contractor owes a former assistant supervisor $180,000 after finding she was let go from a Social Security Administration records center because she was 54 years old.

Fired Jets Executive Fights Team's Use Of 'Privileged' Texts

A former finance executive suing the New York Jets for an alleged retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president now seeks an injunction to stop the organization from p... (more story)

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Whistleblower Asks High Court To Revive NASA Fraud Case

A whistleblower is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a False Claims Act suit accusing a NASA contractor of overbilling, arguing that the Sixth Circuit wrongly let the government dismiss the case without ... (more story)

Retailer Faces Class Action Over Excluding Bonuses From OT Pay

A Colorado retail supplier was hit with a proposed collective action in federal court Thursday from a former employee who said it failed to properly calculate overtime premiums.

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'Moonlighting' Atty Must Arbitrate Wage Claims, Ga. Firm Says

John Foy & Associates PC told a Georgia federal court that a former firm attorney breached her employment agreement by "moonlighting" with another firm during her employment and then filing a wage suit against... (more story)

Tech Services Co. Fired IT Chief For FMLA Request, Court Told

A provider of business technology services terminated its information technology director after 21 years of service following his request to take time off to care for his wife while she recovered from endometr... (more story)

Chili's Servers Cleared To Pursue Meal Break, Expense Claims

Two Chili's food servers can continue with their claims that they were unable to take meal and rest breaks and were not reimbursed for cellphone use, a California federal judge ruled, but he winnowed the Chili... (more story)

EMS Workers Tell 4th Circ. NC County Owes Them Wages

Emergency medical services workers argued that a North Carolina county created a "mathematical impossibility" when it calculated their wages, urging the Fourth Circuit to flip a federal court's ruling that the... (more story)

Senate Confirms Boyden Gray Atty As Trump's Labor Solicitor

The Senate confirmed on Tuesday a Boyden Gray PLLC managing partner as President Donald Trump's nominee for labor solicitor, the third-highest-ranking position at the U.S. Department of Labor.