Expert Analysis

What To Know As Rulings Limit NLRB's Expanded Remedies

Two recent appellate decisions strongly rebuke the National Labor Relations Board's expansion of remedies beyond r... (more story)

5 Bonus Plan Compliance Issues In Financial Services

As several legal constraints — including a new California debt repayment law taking effect in January — tighten ar... (more story)

Unique Aspects Of Texas' Approach To AI Regulation

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act — which will soon be the sole comprehensive artificial intelligence law in... (more story)

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21 States Get Judge To Halt Trump Cuts Of 4 Fed. Agencies

A Rhode Island federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from eliminating four federal agencies that support museums and libraries, minority businesses, organized labor, and homeless services, handing... (more story)

Teamsters Health Plan Wants Data Breach Suit Tossed

A Massachusetts federal judge should toss a proposed class action accusing a Teamsters healthcare plan of failing to protect plan participants' personal information, the plan argued, seeking dismissal of a sui... (more story)

UPS Defends Work Recording Rule Against NLRB Challenge

UPS urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to find its rule restricting workers' creation of workplace recordings is legal under the board's current test of employee handbook rules while telegraphing a c... (more story)

Teamsters Demand Arbitration In Trade Show Work Dispute

A trade show warehouse operator is ignoring the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with a Teamsters unit by refusing to arbitrate a dispute over work allegedly being performed by nonunion employees, ac... (more story)

Union Tells 1st Circ. Visa Ban Threatens Harvard's Talent Pool

The UAW filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit in support of Harvard University's fight to continue enrolling foreign students, warning that President Donald Trump's moves to limit visas are chasing away t... (more story)

Transit Operator Says Union Standoff Risks $100M In Funding

A Florida public transit operator has accused a bus drivers union of withholding its signature on a safety plan that the Jacksonville Transit Authority must submit annually to obtain federal funding, asking a ... (more story)

Ill. Petroleum Co.'s Drivers Can Vote To Join Teamsters Union

Fuel and oil drivers at a suburban Chicago petroleum company can vote on whether to join the Teamsters, a National Labor Relations Board official said, rejecting the employer's argument that the petitioned-for... (more story)

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Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF

Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.

Prep School Firings Called Payback For Alleging Favoritism

Two longtime members of the athletic department staff at The Lawrenceville School, a private preparatory academy, are alleging in New Jersey state court that they were fired in retaliation for raising concerns... (more story)

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Feds' Claim Against Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban Tossed

The D.C. Circuit's chief judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's misconduct complaint against the federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serv... (more story)

Mich. Christian Health Group Claims Right To Deny Trans Care

A Christian health system urged a federal court to permanently prohibit Michigan from enforcing a state civil rights law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, arguing the stat... (more story)

6th Circ. Says Rehabilitation Act Doesn't Cover Retaliation

The Sixth Circuit declined to reinstate a former Michigan Department of Corrections officer's suit claiming he lost his job for requesting lighter duties after a hip injury, ruling a law prohibiting disability... (more story)

Muldrow Gets Embassy Officer New Trial On Bias Claims

An Asian American security officer got another shot at convincing a jury that the U.S. State Department denied her an assignment out of race and gender bias, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that her claims sh... (more story)

Penn State Says Ex-Trustee Posted Damning Letter First

The Pennsylvania State University sought to dismiss a former trustee's lawsuit over alleged retaliation for his investigating fees it paid and its finances, arguing in part that a letter he claimed had defamed... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Colo. Hospitals Accused Of Denying Workers Break Pay

A respiratory therapist told a Colorado state court that two hospitals violated state labor laws by neglecting to pay employees for missed breaks during shifts.

Staffing Co., Colo. Ink $400K Deal In Worker Classification Suit

An app-based staffing company and its affiliate will pay $400,000 after Colorado officials determined it misclassified workers as independent contractors and failed to pay the proper unemployment insurance pre... (more story)

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UFW Says H-2A Wage Rule Hurts American Workers

The U.S. Department of Labor rolled out an illegal rule related to the wage rate for H-2A agricultural workers that will push American farmworkers out of work, the United Farm Workers union told a California federal court.

Auto Paint Co. Denied Techs Overtime, Suit Says

Auto paint and equipment distributor Albert Kemperle LLC has misclassified its technicians as exempt from overtime, according to a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts state court.

Ex-Kia, Hyundai Workers Score $11.5M Deal In Wage Suit

A Hyundai supplier, a Kia plant and two staffing agencies have reached an $11.5 million deal to resolve a suit by production line workers who accused the companies of a scheme to obtain cheap labor from skille... (more story)

Colo. Healthcare System Stiffing Workers, Court Told

A pair of former workers for a hospital and healthcare facility operator in Colorado have accused their past employer of routinely shortchanging their pay in violation of state and federal wage and hour laws, ... (more story)

Worker Says Morgan & Morgan Fired Her Over Fraud Concern

Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and fai... (more story)