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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case that hinged on the standard used by courts to assess whether employers are liable for sexual harassment perpetrated against workers by customers or clients.
Proposed legislation to solidify the use of disparate impact to combat workplace bias and to ensure that workers receive reasonable menopause-related accommodations are percolating in multiple progressive state legislatures. Here, Law360 offers a biweekly look at pending state bills that discrimination attorneys should keep on their radar.
President Donald Trump's choice to bolster the Republican Party's majority on the National Labor Relations Board is an atypical pick with relatively little experience before the agency, but the board's infrastructure should smooth his learning curve, experts told Law360.
Zoe Argento, Denise Tran-Nguyen and Bradford Kelley
Over the next eight months, many California employers must prepare to comply with challenging new requirements und... (more story)
Michael Ryan and Rashad Abdallah
California's recent enactment of A.B. 692 disrupts how employers structure sign-on bonuses, retention payments and... (more story)
Mark Goldstein, Alexandra Manfredi and Victoria Jaus
An amendment to the New York state Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting applicants' or employees' consumer credit... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court shut the door Monday on a challenge to a Fifth Circuit ruling that enables the National Labor Relations Board's targets to get its cases blocked, turning away a union's appeal of a decis... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a baked goods company's bid for review of the Eleventh Circuit's finding that it owed a union pension fund up to $15.6 million, leaving in place Monday a ruling that backed t... (more story)
Starbucks has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Workers United, accusing the union of refusing to bargain and pushing a "false narrative" that the company had to be forced to resume bargaining.
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order that dinged Starbucks for sending overbroad subpoenas to pro-union employees, saying in a published opinion that the board applied the... (more story)
The National Labor Relations Board is pursuing an "unconstitutional administrative proceeding" against Volkswagen's U.S. arm, the automaker told a Texas federal court Friday, saying the NLRB is attempting to f... (more story)
Red Roof Inn violated federal labor law by firing a worker shortly after she raised concerns about COVID-19 exposure in the workplace, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Friday, upholding an administrati... (more story)
A federal appeals court is on track to weigh in on whether Google must bargain with a content creators' union, but whether that court will be the Ninth Circuit or the D.C. Circuit is still an open question.
A New Jersey federal judge rejected on Monday a former state jurist's bid to revive civil rights claims against a Garden State municipality and its former police director, finding the plaintiff failed to show ... (more story)
A Ninth Circuit panel has reinstated a psychiatrist's claims that PeaceHealth Inc. retaliated against him for expressing concerns about potential Medicaid fraud at a Washington hospital, concluding on Friday t... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the dismissal of a veteran's lawsuit alleging he was let go by an aviation training provider because of his post-traumatic stress disorder and other service-rela... (more story)
Eight states have asked a Massachusetts federal judge to restore $160 million to federal programs providing professional development to new teachers cut by the U.S. Department of Education last year, which the... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed in a now-settled case relating to a vacated arbitral award favoring a former water treatment company director, which sought clarity from the justices on whethe... (more story)
A software engineer for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has alleged the microchip-maker systematically discriminates against women by hiring them less frequently than men, underpaying women and fosterin... (more story)
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a Black Alabama school district worker's suit claiming she was transferred to a different job out of racial discrimination, ruling her employer showed the de... (more story)
An agricultural labor contractor and his company charged illegal recruitment fees to H-2A migrant workers, underpaid the workers and confiscated their passports to prevent them from leaving their jobs, accordi... (more story)
A proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court accuses a multifamily property management company of deliberately paying its employees less overtime by making them work off the clock and of using techn... (more story)
A data science platform said Friday that a former executive, who claims he was not paid after investing $750,000 into the business, cannot drag three out-of-state people loosely connected to the company into a... (more story)
A New York federal judge on Friday refused to upend a $236,000 jury verdict in favor of a group of drivers, rejecting a black car company's argument that the jury wrongly found the drivers were employees rathe... (more story)
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a discrimination case against Tesla Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
In the week ahead, a federal judge will consider New York City's request to dismiss Uber and DoorDash's challenge to a pair of city laws that regulate how food delivery platforms display tipping options.
Former employees of two defunct Boston marijuana dispensaries, both called Pure Oasis, are suing the companies behind the shops and their owners in Massachusetts state court, accusing them of failing to pay ou... (more story)
The Internal Revenue Service fell short in its request for the full Fifth Circuit to revisit a high-profile case it lost in January over the self-employment tax exception for business partners with limited lia... (more story)
After the Delaware Court of Chancery reinstated a target company's CEO as part of the equitable remedy in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton, deal parties should emphasize the importance of postclosing governance prov... (more story)
Executives behind a New York-based barbecue chain and its employee stock ownership plan caretaker have agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve a class action claiming they tanked workers' savings in a $99 milli... (more story)