This week, the Second Circuit will consider a challenge to the $350,000 incentive award a federal judge approved for the representative of the class in a long-running dispute accusing the New York City Board of Education o...(read more)

A Missouri judge has granted a fifth year of eligibility to basketball star Robbie Avila, a bespectacled forward for Saint Louis University who briefly suited up for the Los Angeles Lakers' Summer League squad, the latest ...(read more)

The National Labor Relations Board is at work reviewing cases that could alter precedent set during the Biden administration that shifted federal labor law in a more union-friendly direction, the board's chairman said Thur...(read more)

A Detroit woodworking and millworking company owes a group of union benefit funds about $287,500, the union and the funds' trustees allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Michigan federal court, asking the court to compel t...(read more)

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against Earthgrains Distribution LLC and its sole member, baked goods manufacturer Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. Here's a ...(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)

The Tenth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court's preliminary decision that would have granted another year of eligibility to thousands of NCAA athletes, finding that the trial judge erred by defining the relevant marke...(read more)

An Illinois roofing company has struck a $700,000 deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit claiming a vice president used racial slurs and made sexual comments toward female workers, accordi...(read more)

The Eleventh Circuit declined to reinstate a lawsuit brought by a former Navy employee alleging she was terminated for reporting a breach of a settlement agreement, saying the Navy's key decision makers were unaware of her...(read more)

The Fifth Circuit revived a Black school administrator's suit claiming her boss fired her out of bias after stating he hoped she wasn't the "average angry Black woman," ruling her school district needed to present stronger...(read more)

The Fifth Circuit declined Thursday to undo the dismissal of a community college police officer's bias suit claiming she lost out on additional work for filing sex harassment complaints, backing a trial court's decision to...(read more)

Maynard Nexsen PC said Thursday the firm has added nine labor and employment attorneys from Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP, expanding its presence in New York, New Jersey and Missouri.

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud threatens to ramp up the pressure on companies to hurry internal investigations and quickly report suspected misconduct to the government...(read more)

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. Department of Justice official who instituted dramatic changes as leader of the Civil Rights Division, has stepped down from her role.

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)

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)

A Virginia federal judge on Thursday allowed hospital workers to pursue their state claims as a class in a suit accusing their employer of rounding away minutes worked before and after their shifts, rejecting the hospital ...(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.

A Southern California glass installation company didn't pay an apprentice for his first two months of work, then paid him a "flat, declining weekly amount that was not tied to the number of hours he actually worked," he sa...(read more)

A remote worker who takes restaurant orders by phone accused her employer and its artificial intelligence parent company in Colorado federal court of denying pay to her and other workers for time they spent starting their ...(read more)

The U.S. Department of Justice will not be allowed to participate in an upcoming approval hearing for $200 million in wage-fixing settlements that beef and pork plant workers reached with major meat processors, a Colorado ...(read more)