An ex-Facebook executive who wrote a whistleblower memoir urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a preliminary arbitration decision blocking her from promoting the book or disparaging Meta, while the company countered that she agreed to resolve such disputes by arbitration when she accepted a $780,000 payout.
The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday unveiled the final version of a rule rescinding decades-old regulations that imposed nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements on federal contractors, erasing the remnants of a 1960s executive order that President Donald Trump nixed.