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What Justices' FLSA Ruling Means For 2-Step Collective Cert.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in EMD Sales v. Carrera may have sounded the death knell for the decades-... (more story)

What Day 1 Bondi Memos Mean For Corporate Compliance

After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s flurry of memos last week declaring new enforcement priorities on issues rangin... (more story)

5 Things For Private Employers To Do After Trump's DEI Order

Following President Donald Trump's recent executive order pushing the private sector to narrow, and even end, dive... (more story)

Labor More

Trump Sets Across-The-Board 25% Tariff On Steel, Aluminum

President Donald Trump teed up a 25% tariff on all imported steel and aluminum Monday evening, continuing a trend of sweeping, aggressive trade actions that have defined his first three weeks in office.

Union Backs NLRB's ULP Findings Against Casino At DC Circ.

A hospitality workers union defended a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a Las Vegas casino violated federal labor law with a benefits rollout during an organizing campaign, telling the D.C. Circ... (more story)

A Seventh Circuit judge appeared confused by which argument counsel for a fire suppression company was making at oral arguments over a case related to its refusal to bargain with its workers' union. (iStock.com/JHVEPhoto)
7th Circ. Skeptical Of Co.'s Hearing Plea In NLRB Row

A Seventh Circuit judge took a fire suppression company to task at a Monday argument for making the wrong argument in its challenge to a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it breached a settlement by r... (more story)

NLRB Attorneys Tell 1st Circ. Northeastern Cop Union Is OK

A National Labor Relations Board official correctly allowed Northeastern University's sergeants and sergeant-detectives to unionize in 2023, and the board properly found last year that the university violated ... (more story)

Court Won't Reinstate NLRB Brief In Newspaper Union Suit

A federal judge won't reinstate a brief stricken from the record in a dispute between the National Labor Relations Board and the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, saying Friday that the board had misin... (more story)

'Stand Down': CFPB's Acting Chief Pulls Employees Off Job

The Trump administration's acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought told agency staff Monday to "stand down" from doing any work, the latest in a series of rapid-fire moves that are ... (more story)

Kroger Chain Says Strike Is Bid To Force 'Multi-Union' Talks

The Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers sued the union representing Colorado workers on Friday in federal court, alleging strikes at King Soopers stores in the state are a pressure tactic to "force multi-u... (more story)

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Morgan Stanley Can't Undo $1.6M Bias Award, Judge Says

A North Carolina federal judge has declined to throw out a $1.6 million arbitration award granted to a former Morgan Stanley employee who claimed he was wrongfully terminated, after the bank alleged the chosen... (more story)

Merrill Lynch $20M Bias Deal Should Be Approved, Judge Says

A U.S. magistrate judge has recommended granting the first green light to a $20 million settlement that will resolve discrimination and retaliation claims launched against Merrill Lynch by a proposed class of ... (more story)

A Kansas federal judge declined to reconsider her ruling denying summary judgment to Chipotle in an EEOC suit alleging the fast food chain allowed harassment of a Muslim worker to continue. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Chipotle Can't Get Quick Appeal In EEOC Religious Bias Fight

A Kansas federal judge declined Monday to let Chipotle immediately appeal her decision not to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the restaurant ignored a supervisor's harassme... (more story)

Mechanic Says Elevator Co. Fired Him Over Paternity Leave

A New York City elevator mechanic sued his former employer in New York federal court, claiming the company retaliated against him when he raised workplace safety concerns, fired him when he said he intended to... (more story)

Harassment Suit Against Fox Sports, Hosts Sent To Fed Court

The lawsuit accusing Fox Sports executives and on-air hosts of sexual harassment and creating a toxic workplace environment has been moved from California state court to federal court, where the two sides were... (more story)

Judge Wary Of Doctor's Bid To Halt WWE Accuser's Info Hunt

A Connecticut judge on Monday appeared skeptical of a celebrity doctor's bid to end an information request by a woman separately accusing World Wrestling Entertainment and its founder Vince McMahon of sex traf... (more story)

Black EEOC Atty Says Telework Bid Earned Her Cold Shoulder

A Black U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney sued the agency in Texas federal court, alleging that she was passed over for promotions and a senior leader training program after requesting a di... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

6th Circ. Backs Electric Co. In Fired Ex-Exec's Severance Suit

The Sixth Circuit upheld the dismissal Monday of an ex-executive's suit claiming the American Electric Power Service Corp. owed him severance after he was fired for failing to tamp down on his assistant's exce... (more story)

Medical System Illegally Rounds Workers' Time, Suit Says

A county hospital system employs a policy that modifies when workers clock in and out to avoid paying them all the wages they are owed, which can result in missed overtime pay, a proposed class and collective ... (more story)

The Washington Supreme Court won't consider Virginia Mason Medical Center's petition to overturn a lower court decision favoring nurses and other employees in their uncompensated meal break lawsuit. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Wash. Justices Won't Review Workers' $3.3M Meal Break Win

A class of hospital workers can keep a $3.3 million award in a closely watched case over uncompensated meal breaks, after the Washington Supreme Court decided it won't take on a hospital's bid to overturn a lo... (more story)

Little Caesars Cheated Workers Out Of OT, Suit Claims

Pizza chain Little Caesars didn't pay workers for the time they spent responding to texts and phone calls outside their scheduled shifts, a former co-manager said in a proposed class and collective action file... (more story)

Co.'s Bid For Sanctions In Wage Suit Is Abusive, Drivers Say

A food distributor facing two drivers' suit alleging unpaid wages engaged in "abusive litigation'' when it said the workers were unwilling to appear for depositions and asked a California federal court to sanc... (more story)

Sheriff's Office Must Face Workers' Wage Payment Suit

A North Carolina federal judge refused to throw out a wage and hour class action that detention center employees lodged against a sheriff's office, adopting a magistrate judge's finding that the case should he... (more story)

9th Circ. Judge Doubts Justices' FLSA Test Fits Cracker Barrel

A Ninth Circuit judge was skeptical Friday of Cracker Barrel's bid to upend an order granting servers collective status based on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions ... (more story)