A Missouri federal judge on Thursday dismissed the state's suit claiming that Starbucks' diversity policies discriminate based on race and gender, finding that its complaint is "devoid of non-conclusory and no... (more story)

A group of environmental services employees at a California hospital can vote on whether to join a bargaining unit represented by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, a Nationa... (more story)

The Ninth Circuit should walk back a six-year-old decision that gave unions a tool to complicate interunion disputes over what work their members perform, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors said, urgin... (more story)

A New York federal judge tossed Friday a white former Verizon worker's suit claiming he was discriminated against after he was fired for saying a racial slur on a lunch break, ruling his remaining claims are b... (more story)

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors sought to expand on an NLRB judge's decision finding that a film production company illegally fired a script supervisor over her union activity, telling the board Fri... (more story)

This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider granting preliminary approval to a $6 million class action settlement resolving allegations from home health aides who claimed a provider did not pa... (more story)

A union pension fund has filed a lawsuit against the Boston Globe in D.C. federal court, accusing the news organization of failing to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours employees worked.

A former assistant vice president at Michigan State University has sued the university and her former boss in Michigan federal court, alleging that she was fired as payback for reporting claims of sexual harassment.

The Trump administration has agreed not to condition federal education funding for state and legal education agencies on what a coalition of nearly 20 states alleged was an incorrect interpretation of law in r... (more story)

A split Eleventh Circuit panel on Friday reinstated a Black truck salesman's harassment suit claiming a supervisor called him "boy" and that his colleagues regularly called nonwhite customers racial slurs, rul... (more story)

The Fourth Circuit on Friday lifted a block on President Donald Trump's executive orders that terminated federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs and aimed to encourage government contractors to do the... (more story)

The commission responsible for Connecticut's public defenders did not violate TaShun Bowden-Lewis' constitutional or legal rights when it removed her as chief of the office in 2024, a state Superior Court judg... (more story)

Billing company Paymentus Corp. has settled a former in-house attorney's retaliation, age discrimination and wrongful discharge lawsuit less than two weeks before the case was set to go to trial, court records show.

In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a discrimination case against a utility district. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.

Wayne County, Michigan, is facing a proposed class and collective action from sheriff's deputies alleging they were denied straight-time wages, overtime and earned benefits after the implementation of a new payroll system.

A data science platform and its top brass persuaded its former chief strategy officer and president to invest $750,000 in the business, only then to not pay him wages, the former employee told a North Carolina... (more story)

The Fifth Circuit found Friday that a former Texas Farm Bureau agency manager failed to prove his old employer owes him overtime pay, saying the ex-employee didn't show that the Farm Bureau knew he was working overtime.

Two North Carolina restaurants urged a federal court Friday to narrow a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they unlawfully kept and pooled tips from front-of-house workers and allocated the funds to tip... (more story)

The Fair Labor Standards Act does not categorically bar a contract's release of an employee's claims, a Washington federal judge ruled, finding that a former pharmaceutical manufacturing company worker's sever... (more story)

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to tossing a proposed class action alleging Tesla discriminates against American workers by favoring allegedly underpaid H-1B visa holders, telling counsel rep... (more story)

Health insurer Elevance told a North Carolina federal court that it should deny a former nurse's attempt to expand a class definition in her overtime-exempt misclassification lawsuit, arguing that the reworked... (more story)