A Connecticut police sergeant who has fought discipline for excessive force since 2020 cannot proceed with federal constitutional claims against the city of Torrington, a Second Circuit panel ruled Monday in finding that t...(read more)

The Fifth Circuit should free three Texas orchestras from their obligation to bargain with an American Federation of Musicians local, the orchestras argued, saying they were within their rights to end their 30-year relatio...(read more)

A Washington federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from demanding that state election officials set aside ballots from hundreds of suspected noncitizens, concluding that federal prosecutors likely over...(read more)

An Oregon hospital cannot win remand of its case challenging a National Labor Relations Board order requiring the hospital to bargain with a nurses union, the board has told the D.C. Circuit, claiming the hospital can't re...(read more)

The U.S. Department of Labor acted unlawfully in approving a state wage survey that split farmworkers' piece-rate pay into separate categories, a Washington federal judge ruled, but he rejected a farmworkers union's other ...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to rethink how courts interpret the contours of National Labor Relations Board policies, rejecting a builder's challenge to a Sixth Circuit ruling permitting a union to withdraw from ...(read more)

The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal court Friday to keep its lawsuit challenging a United Auto Workers affiliate's bid to arbitrate a dispute over graduate student union coverage, claiming certain first- and sec...(read more)

United Airlines defeated a former pilot's lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to reinstate him following a lengthy furlough he took to serve in the Air Force Reserve, with an Illinois federal judge ruling he hadn't prov...(read more)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told the Fourth Circuit a lower court erred when it nixed retaliation claims from a consulting firm director who said her male boss mistreated her, arguing the trial cou...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former information technology employee's invitation to clarify whether workers' placement on performance improvement plans that don't result in termination or changes in pay and ...(read more)

The Seventh Circuit refused to reopen a suit alleging an Illinois county hospital fired a pharmacy technician for requesting a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it was bound by a recent ruling nixing a ...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a teacher's discrimination suit claiming he was fired out of bias for his Mexican American ancestry, leaving intact a Fifth Circuit decision that concluded he hadn't show...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a white former news anchor's lawsuit alleging she was fired because of her race and replaced with a Black woman, despite her argument that the Fifth Circuit used an improperl...(read more)

Harvard University on Friday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to reject the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's request for hiring data on thousands of applicants and employees, calling it the "latest escalation" ...(read more)

Walmart agreed to pay $7.8 million to resolve a state investigation that found violations of Pennsylvania's child labor law at stores across the state, including allowing minors to work more hours than permitted and failin...(read more)

A Florida federal judge granted the Trump administration's push to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that increased wages for foreign farmworkers in light of a new interim rule that has been issued.

A Tennessee federal judge has narrowed but allowed a 5-year-old suit to proceed, finding that workers can pursue claims that a behavioral health company failed to pay them for interrupted meal breaks, while rejecting claim...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and...(read more)

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision to revive wage claims against Jack in the Box doesn't compel an Oregon federal judge to scrap a colleague's finding in litigation against Home Depot, the judge said, rejecting a challeng...(read more)

Police officers who handle drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs for Houston's school district sued the district in Texas federal court Friday, saying they were denied overtime pay for caring for the dogs at home outside their sche...(read more)

Thrift-store operator Savers Value Village Inc. rounded workers' hours in the company's favor, denied breaks and improperly calculated overtime and sick pay, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.