The Republican members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Thursday to retract comprehensive harassment guidelines issued during the Biden administration after the agency's chair panned warnings from Democrats and civil rights advocates that the move erodes key worker protections.
A California district court erred in concluding a medical center where union dockworkers received treatments was not a hospital, a split Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, sending the workers' $4.1 million claims dispute against a multiemployer health plan back to the lower court.
The Ninth Circuit will not revive a hospice worker's religious bias suit claiming the facility instituted a discriminatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement, finding Wednesday her case lacked evidence that she sought a religious exemption to the mandate before quitting.