Expert Analysis

How PAGA Reform Can Inform Employer Strategies In 2025

While recent changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act will not significantly reduce PAGA claims, empl... (more story)

7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights an... (more story)

How Deregulation Could Undermine Trump's Anti-DEI Agenda

While rolling back federal agency power benefited conservative policies during the Biden administration, it will l... (more story)

Labor More

NLRB Urges Toss Of Restaurant Group's Constitutional Clash

An Arizona federal judge must nix a restaurant group's constitutional claims against the National Labor Relations Board, the agency argued, saying the company hasn't shown how removal protections for board mem... (more story)

11th Circ. Upholds Win For UPS, Union In Worker's Bias Suit

UPS and a Teamsters local defeated a fired employee's race discrimination and Americans with Disabilities Act suit Thursday before the Eleventh Circuit, with the appellate court upholding a victory by the comp... (more story)

Yellow Corp. Says It Acted In Good Faith With WARN Notices

Defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday that its last delivery was made the day before it laid off 22,000 union workers, making it a "liquidating fiduciary" that woul... (more story)

Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

Paul Hastings LLP represents major companies like Nike and Google, and handled overlapping discrimination government investigations against video game company Activision Blizzard, ultimately notching settlemen... (more story)

United Airlines Ex-Tech Sues To Get Grievance Arbitrated

A fired United Airlines technician asked a New York federal judge to compel arbitration of a grievance he filed in June over his termination, saying he has a right to have the grievance arbitrated under the Railway Labor Act.

Calif. Appeals Court Backs Apprentice Work Regulations

A California appeals court refused to reinstate a challenge from several employer associations seeking to strike down new regulations governing how apprentices can spend their time working, saying the Californ... (more story)

NLRB Judge OKs Amazon's Firing Of North Las Vegas Worker

Amazon's 2021 firing of a worker at a North Las Vegas fulfillment center did not violate the National Labor Relations Act, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting board prosecutors' a... (more story)

Discrimination More

Foreign Workers' RICO Claims Should Advance, Judge Says

A Georgia federal magistrate judge has said a proposed class action by Mexican engineers who say they were duped into doing manual labor in the U.S. should largely proceed, finding they have sufficiently backe... (more story)

Welder Sues Bezos' Blue Origin Over Sex Discrimination

A former welder at Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin Florida LLC filed a discrimination lawsuit Wednesday claiming her supervisors forced her to sew buttons on their shirts and would tell her she was a... (more story)

Trump Undoes Biden's AI Safeguards With Executive Order

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order upending the former Biden administration's consumer and national security safeguards on artificial intelligence, saying former AI policies must be i... (more story)

Protest Of EEOC's Harassment Guidance Must Stand, AGs Say

A coalition of Republican state attorneys general urged a Tennessee federal court not to shut down the group's legal challenge to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance on workplace harassment, ... (more story)

'Not Just A Game': Producers Fight Pause On 'The Deb' Suit

Producers of the musical film "The Deb" urged a Los Angeles judge on Thursday not to pause Rebel Wilson's embezzlement claims while the actress appeals another portion of the case, saying they need a resolutio... (more story)

Tech Co. Scores Win In Ex-Worker's FMLA Suit

A former payroll analyst for a technology company failed to support her claims that she was fired because she took one month of leave, a Washington federal judge ruled, tossing her Family and Medical Leave Act suit.

7th Circ. Stands By Purdue's Win In Chinese Prof's Bias Suit

The Seventh Circuit won't reconsider an order upholding the dismissal of a Chinese professor's suit claiming she was passed over for roles at a Purdue University campus out of race and national origin bias, ha... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Security Officers Say NYPD Pays Late For Off-Duty Work

The New York Police Department pays officers months late for their time spent performing off-duty uniformed security work for participating businesses, according to a proposed class and collective action filed... (more story)

SeaWorld Worker's Wage Suit To Stay In Calif. Federal Court

A suit alleging SeaWorld didn't properly pay workers and failed to provide meal and rest periods will not move back to California state court, a federal judge ruled, saying the worker behind the case made "inc... (more story)

In its return-to-office memo, the Office of Personnel Management said agencies should sort out a way to assign employees "to the most appropriate agency office based on the employee's duties and job function" if they live more than 50 miles from a federal office. (iStock.com/alice-photo)
Federal Agencies Must Order Full Return To Office By Friday

Federal agencies will order employees to return to the office by Friday at 5 p.m. to end the "national embarrassment" that remote work policies have fueled, the Office of Personnel Management said, following P... (more story)

Walmart Strikes Deal To End Delivery Driver's Wage Suit

Walmart reached a deal to resolve a former worker's lawsuit accusing the company of misclassifying its app-based delivery drivers as independent contractors and failing to provide them the guaranteed wages, br... (more story)

Apple Can't Yet Ditch Bulk Of Proposed Pay Bias Class Action

A California state judge refused to ax the majority of a proposed class action accusing Apple of systematically underpaying women employees, ruling that, at this stage, the workers have adequately alleged viol... (more story)

Wayne-Sanderson Flouting Wage-Fix Settlement, DOJ Says

The Justice Department is accusing poultry giant Wayne-Sanderson Farms of shirking its obligations under a settlement resolving wage-suppression allegations, asking a Maryland federal court to put a freeze on ... (more story)

NY AG Snags $1.1M In Wages For Rikers Island Cleaners

A professional maintenance company that provided services at New York's Rikers Island jail agreed to shell out about $1 million for underpaying immigrant workers and pressuring them to pay kickbacks to keep th... (more story)