Expert Analysis

How Litigants Are Testing Conversion Therapy Ruling's Scope

Litigants are already using the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Chiles v. Salazar ruling, which applied strict scrutin... (more story)

How Justices' TPS Ruling Affects Workforce Planning

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent holding in Mullin v. Doe that courts lack jurisdiction to review temporary protect... (more story)

What To Know Before Justices Rule In Title IX Employee Case

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Title IX protections extend to employees alleging sex discrimin... (more story)

Labor More

DOL Secretary Nom Backs Proposed Rules At Senate Hearing

President Donald Trump's nominee to become secretary of labor faced questions Thursday from U.S. Senate committee about the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed wage and hour rules, with Democrats indicating th... (more story)

AG Merger Case Gets New Judge After Paramont Recusal Bid

A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Disc... (more story)

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NLRB Wants Briefs On Reach Of Hospital Unit Rules

The National Labor Relations Board panel on Wednesday put out the call for stakeholder feedback on the application of its rules for bargaining unit makeup in acute care hospitals to proposed bargaining units t... (more story)

9th Circ. Withdraws Ask For NLRB Constitutionality Briefs

The Ninth Circuit withdrew a call for briefs on whether to rehear a case in which a panel rejected challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality after the U.S. Supreme Court passed on re... (more story)

Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term

Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu... (more story)

NLRB Fights Hot Dog Co.'s Bid To Beat Union Vote

The National Labor Relations Board asked the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to enforce its order certifying the Ironworkers as the representative for a group of factory employees at Portillo's Hot Dogs LLC, arguin... (more story)

3rd Circ. Restores Award In Worker Suspension Row

The Third Circuit has vacated a district court's voidance of an arbitration award ordering a nonprofit organization to pay a reinstated employee for the overtime shifts she missed while suspended, ruling the d... (more story)

Discrimination More

Liberty Mutual Settles Fired VP's Race Bias Suit

Liberty Mutual Group Inc. has settled a lawsuit by a former vice president and senior talent adviser who alleged she was sidelined and eventually fired due to her race, according to a stipulation filed in Nort... (more story)

Ohio Worker Says Supreme Court Win Prompted Retaliation

A straight Ohio state worker whose sexual orientation bias suit made it to the U.S. Supreme Court has been denied a promotion, isolated from coworkers and slapped with manufactured misconduct accusations in th... (more story)

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9th Circ. Kicks EEOC Suit Over Pain Meds Back To Trial

The Ninth Circuit breathed new life into a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing a financial services company of unlawfully rejecting an applicant because she took pain medication, find... (more story)

Atlantic City Gets Win In Lifeguard Retaliation Suit

Two lifeguards failed to support their claims that the Atlantic City Beach Patrol retaliated against them for complaining about their work conditions, which allegedly involved dirty stations, a lack of proper ... (more story)

EEOC To Shift Publication Of FEPA Lists To Public Website

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unveiled a final rule Wednesday that will tweak the method for publicizing its list of recognized state and municipal antidiscrimination enforcement agencies by... (more story)

Basketball Hall Of Fame Denies Bias Claim In Hiring Decision

The Basketball Hall of Fame denied Wednesday that it had unlawfully passed over a female applicant for a marketing executive position in favor of less qualified male candidates, telling a Massachusetts federal... (more story)

Sports Bar Calls Ex-Manager's $431K Atty Fee Bid Gratuitous

A North Carolina sports bar urged a federal court to slash a former manager's bid for nearly $431,000 in attorney fees following her jury win on a claim that the restaurant's owner sexually harassed her, argui... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Judge Shields DOL From Appliance Co. Deposition Topics

A California federal magistrate judge has blocked a household appliance company from deposing a Labor Department official about the agency's historical enforcement positions on piece rate overtime regulations,... (more story)

Driller's Preshift Overtime Claim Survives In Wage Suit

A Utah federal judge kept alive a former employee's preshift overtime claim in a proposed collective action against a drilling services company, while tossing his rounding, bonus and per diem allegations and m... (more story)

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Golden Nugget Casino Seeks To Tap Out Of Wage Suit

Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino moved Wednesday to cash out of a table game dealer's proposed class action alleging its tip pool practices and mandatory rest period policy violated federal and state wage ... (more story)

Kroger Workers' Suit Claims Missed Meals, Unpaid Screenings

Kroger was hit with a proposed class and collective action in Georgia federal court alleging the company automatically deducted 30-minute meal breaks from delivery drivers' hours and failed to pay Illinois wor... (more story)

In Tip Credit Debate, Both Sides Are Claiming Progress

Advocates for and against eliminating the tip credit believe their arguments are gaining momentum, but the situation is more complex, as efforts to end the lower minimum wage in Chicago and Washington, D.C., h... (more story)

Northrop Grumman Denied Calif. Workers Full Pay, Suit Says

Northrop Grumman shorted California workers by rounding recorded time, automatically deducting 30-minute meal periods and requiring off-the-clock work, according to a proposed class action and California's Pri... (more story)

Nursing Home Illegally Fired Workers, NLRB Judge Says

A Michigan nursing home operator violated federal labor law by telling two workers not to talk about their pay and firing them after they threatened to take their complaints to the National Labor Relations Boa... (more story)