The Second Circuit refused Thursday to scrap a $770,000 jury verdict for a worker who claimed he was fired by an electronics component manufacturer for taking medical leave, ruling the company failed to raise its arguments in the trial court before bringing them up on appeal.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's minimum wage law doesn't incorporate the limitations on compensable preshift activities found in federal law, answering the Seventh Circuit's call for help determining whether Amazon must pay workers for time they spent undergoing preliminary COVID-19 screenings.
The Eleventh Circuit ruled that Georgia county school officials can't escape a Black ex-teacher's suit alleging they ignored a race discrimination settlement that required enacting a plan to address hiring bias.