Expert Analysis

Trending Legal Implications Of Employee Influencer Programs

Employee-generated content is rapidly becoming a popular marketing strategy, as illustrated by Starbucks' new TikT... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Shifting Workplace Violence Responses

Amid recent threats of violence against artificial intelligence company executives and Jewish-owned businesses, em... (more story)

Limiting Employer Risk If Calif. Case Upends Time Rounding

The California Supreme Court's holdings in recent years suggest that it may tighten the rules for — or even elimin... (more story)

Labor More

Strike Questions At Fore As Calif. Gig Drivers Near Unionizing

Uber and Lyft drivers in California are poised to be among the first gig economy workers in the nation to labor under a collective bargaining agreement after the state accepted a union's proof of support, but ... (more story)

Hartford HealthCare Told To Double-Check Privilege Claims

Hartford HealthCare has agreed to re-review 113 documents over which the hospital operator asserted attorney-client privilege in an antitrust lawsuit by a Teamsters health plan and a local Connecticut transit ... (more story)

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ASU Targeted Food Workers' Wage Protests, Union Says

Arizona State University placed overly broad restrictions on union members' campus protests over the wages of university food service workers and used unreasonable force to arrest two union protestors during g... (more story)

Judge Blocks Creamery Closure After Union Retaliation Claim

A Vermont federal judge blocked the closure of a century-old creamery in the city of St. Albans on Monday, saying a Teamsters local convincingly argued that the billion-dollar dairy cooperative that acquired t... (more story)

Littler Names Firm's First Pro Bono Counsel

Littler Mendelson PC announced Monday that it had appointed its first pro bono counsel to enhance the firm's efforts supporting access to justice.

7th Circ. Reverses Alcoa Union Retirees' Lifetime Benefits Win

The Seventh Circuit reversed an Indiana federal court's decision holding that certain union retirees of aluminum giant Alcoa and their beneficiaries had a vested right to health benefits for life, finding erro... (more story)

NLRB Won't Rethink Hearing Order In Union Vote Row

A split National Labor Relations Board on Friday declined to revisit an agency official's order setting a hearing on a union's objections to a representation election at a Mississippi energy company, with one ... (more story)

Discrimination More

Late EEOC Filing Dooms Exec's ADA Suit Against Cable Maker

An electric wire and cable manufacturer beat a lawsuit accusing the company of adding nonessential duties to a director's job description to prevent him from returning after he had a stroke, with a North Carol... (more story)

Colo. Judge Cuts $15M Punitive Award In Nurse Bias Case

A Colorado federal judge has slashed a former ICU nurse's $15 million punitive damages verdict against a hospital to $2.5 million, while preserving a $5 million compensatory award and the jury's findings that ... (more story)

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Roofing Co. Strikes $270K Deal In EEOC Harassment Suit

A roofing business has agreed to pay $270,000 to shutter a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the company failed to take action after a worker complained that his boss sexually harassed... (more story)

University Settles Fired General Counsel's ADA Suit

A North Carolina university has struck a deal to end an associate general counsel's suit claiming she was fired in retaliation for seeking a notetaker and to work remotely four days a week to help manage her d... (more story)

Judge Stays Ex-Defense Contractor Execs' Whistleblower Suit

A Colorado federal magistrate judge granted on Monday a defense contractor's bid to stay two former executives' case against it that claimed the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme ... (more story)

Kroger's $75K EEOC Disability Bias Deal Gets Green Light

The Kroger Co. will pay $75,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the grocery chain rejected a worker's request to sit while working to manage nerve damage caused by cancer tr... (more story)

Smithfield Says It Shouldn't Face Jury In EEOC's Age Bias Suit

Smithfield Foods challenged a Georgia magistrate judge's report recommending the meat processor face the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's suit claiming it fired a senior sales employee due to her... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Papa John's Workers Get Approval For $5M No-Poach Deal

A Kentucky federal court gave its final approval for a $5 million settlement in a case over Papa John's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, sweeping aside previous concerns as well a... (more story)

Ore. Grocery Chain Gets Final OK For $750K Wage Class Deal

A California federal judge has given approval to a $750,000 settlement between an Oregon-based grocery chain and roughly 750 employees, resolving a class action alleging that the grocery store failed to pay th... (more story)

Worker Says GM Can't Escape FMLA, Bias Claims

A General Motors assembly plant worker who alleges the company repeatedly disciplined her for taking disability-related medical leave has urged a Tennessee federal court to reject GM's bid to dismiss her case,... (more story)

Nurse Says 6th Circ. Ruling Doesn't Doom Meal Break Suit

Patient care workers at a behavioral health company have pushed back against an attempt to use an unpublished Sixth Circuit ruling to end their five-year-old proposed collective action in Tennessee federal cou... (more story)

Atty Raises Alarm Over Bloomberg Campaign's $6M OT Deal

An attorney for former Michael Bloomberg campaign workers pursuing contract breach claims urged a New York federal judge to halt notice of the campaign's $6 million overtime settlement with workers in a separa... (more story)

John Deere Dealer Settles OT Misclassification Fight

A major John Deere equipment retailer will pay $578,000 to resolve Fair Labor Standards Act claims brought by salespeople who alleged it improperly classified them as exempt from overtime pay, according to a s... (more story)

NY Forecast: Judge Weighs Tossing Cancer Gene Bias Suit

This week, a New York federal judge will consider a shared workspace operator's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former worker who claims she was forced out of her job after being diagnosed with a gen... (more story)