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

Spirit Flight Attendants Object To Google Data Sale

The union representing Spirit Aviation's flight attendants has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to reject the bankrupt airline's request to sell its internal data to Google for artificial intelligence trainin... (more story)

4th Circ. Ends Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that a district court lacked authority to hear a suit from an immigration judges' union challenging a policy barring judges from speaking publicly about immigration wit... (more story)

NLRB Defends Remedy In Meat Distributor Layoff Case

A New York meat distributor can't ask the D.C. Circuit to forbid the National Labor Relations Board from making employers cover workers' layoff-related expenses when the layoff violates federal labor law, as t... (more story)

Feds Urge Wash. Court To Back Axing Dam Workers' CBA

The Trump administration urged a Washington federal court to deny a labor union's bid to block the government from terminating a collective bargaining agreement covering hydropower dam workers, arguing that ap... (more story)

Big Tech, PTAB Attys Urge Justices To Fix USPTO Power Grab

The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak havoc" without accountability... (more story)

Union Locals Must Arbitrate Probation Row, Judge Says

A Service Employees International Union local must arbitrate a dispute over its decision to extend a union employee's probationary period by 180 days, a California federal judge has ruled, finding that the Uni... (more story)

UAW Says It Doesn't Belong In GM Worker's Bias Suit

The United Auto Workers shouldn't be a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a General Motors employee who alleged that she experienced disability discrimination in the workplace, the union argued, telling a Tenness... (more story)

Discrimination More

Auto Co. Ousted Workers Over Race Bias Reports, EEOC Says

A Wisconsin car dealership groundlessly disciplined and forced out employees who complained about a sales manager who made racist comments and assaulted a Black employee, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity ... (more story)

Atty, Ex-Mentor Settle After Harassment, Bias Suit Dismissed

An attorney whose sexual harassment and employment discrimination suit against her former mentor was thrown out last month for repeated discovery violations has reached a settlement resolving the remaining cla... (more story)

Rulings Sinking Class Claims A 'Disservice,' EEOC Dem Says

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's sole Democratic commissioner denounced a trio of recent agency decisions striking classes of federal employees who brought bias claims, saying the decisions s... (more story)

Deloitte Can't Shake Leave Bias Suit From Ex-Manager

A California federal court has refused to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Deloitte Consulting LLP of penalizing employees through a performance evaluation system that shortchanges the compensation of ... (more story)

DHS Escapes Fired FEMA Worker's Retaliation Suit

A D.C. federal judge tossed a suit from a Black former U.S. Department of Homeland Security worker who claimed he was fired for complaining that his supervisor unfairly criticized him, ruling that he failed to... (more story)

Feds Seek Full 4th Circ. Review Of DEI Firings Row

The federal government urged the Fourth Circuit to review a split panel's decision requiring the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to allow intelligence officers who were fired for their ... (more story)

Ex-Meta Worker Says His EB-2 Letter Concerns Got Him Fired

A former Meta Platforms Inc. product design manager sued the social media giant and his former supervisor in New Jersey federal court, claiming that he was fired after refusing to sign an immigration support l... (more story)

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Burlington Accused Of Requiring Work During Unpaid Breaks

Three Burlington Coat Factory current and former employees hit the off-price retailer with proposed nationwide collective and class claims alleging workers were routinely required to perform unpaid work on pur... (more story)

Prison Phone Co. Says Techs Aren't Owed Public Works Pay

A prison phone service provider told a New York federal judge that three field service technicians who installed and maintained telecommunications systems in hospitals and prisons did not agree to a "public wo... (more story)

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Belle Tire Wins Arbitration Of Technician's Overtime Claims

A former Belle Tire alignment technician must individually arbitrate claims that the automotive service company failed to pay overtime and improperly reduced workers' pay rates, a Michigan federal judge ruled,... (more story)

Bloomberg Campaign, Workers Defend $6M Settlement Notice

Attorneys for workers and Mike Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign urged a New York federal judge to let notice of a proposed $6 million overtime settlement move forward, saying another attorney's challenge... (more story)

Delivery Driver Loses Class Cert. Bid In Misclassification Suit

A delivery driver who accused a logistics company of misclassifying him and thousands of other California workers as independent contractors cannot get his proposed class certified, a federal court found, find... (more story)

Uber Eats To Pay $4.4M To End Seattle Wage Theft Claims

Uber Eats will again fork out millions of dollars to settle allegations from Seattle officials that the food delivery giant failed to pay its couriers what they're owed under municipal app-based worker laws, t... (more story)

Gun Co. Palmetto Shorted Workers On OT, Suit Says

Firearms retailer Palmetto State Armory cheated hundreds of its call-center employees out of wages by forcing them to perform unpaid tasks before clocking in and shaving overtime hours, according to a proposed... (more story)