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EEOC Pick Faces Time Crunch As Shift In Congress Looms

The White House's recent selection of a Justice Department lawyer for a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seat could cement Republican control over the commission for years, but experts say the nomination faces an uphill battle clearing the U.S. Senate before a Democratic-led Congress is sworn in.

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NY Contractor Gets Final OK For $162M Caregiver Wage Deal

A New York federal magistrate judge has signed off on final approval of a $162 million settlement in a proposed class and collective action against a contractor that helps administer a state Medicaid program, ending claims that the company failed to pay personal care assistants accurately or on time.

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NLRB Rejects Stanford's Student Union Challenge

The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday denied Stanford University's call to rethink precedent empowering certain college student workers to unionize, noting a group of resident assistants withdrew the representation petition the challenge was based on.

Expert Analysis

EEOC Hospitality Suits Offer Workplace Investigation Lessons

Victoria Vish and Bethany Wagner

Several recent sexual harassment and retaliation settlements with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demonstrate ...(read more)

Religious Employer Bias Ruling Lands In Unsettled Landscape

James Paul and Fiona Ong

Despite the Fourth Circuit's recent ruling in Doe v. Catholic Relief Services that a religious nonprofit violated federal and s...(read more)

DOJ's Deloitte, Lockheed DEI Deals Stress Whistleblower Role

Lisa Zaccardelli, Janelle Pelli and Julianna Malogolowkin

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent settlements with Deloitte and Lockheed Martin over their diversity, equity and inclusio...(read more)

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NLRB Urges 5th Circ. To Deny Starbucks' Bid For Rehearing

Starbucks should not be granted a rehearing en banc of a Fifth Circuit panel decision finding the coffee chain unlawfully suppressed a union campaign in upstate New York, the National Labor Relations Board argued, claiming...(read more)

Fla. Bookstore Illegally Fired Raise Seeker, NLRB Attys Say

A Florida used bookstore violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing an employee for discussing wages with her co-workers, NLRB prosecutors argued, asking the board to reverse an agency judge's finding that the wag...(read more)

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3rd Circ. Backs Union In Utility Co. Doctor's Note Dispute

An electric utility must reimburse a lineman for a doctor's note he was asked to provide after calling out sick, the Third Circuit has ruled, finding that a lower court erred by rejecting an International Brotherhood of El...(read more)

SEC Finally Issues Proposal To Limit Exec Pay Disclosures

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday proposed cutting back on the information that investors receive about executive compensation, limiting the number of senior officers who have to detail their earnings a...(read more)

Calif. Forecast: SF COVID Vax Suit Back Before 9th Circ.

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in an attempt by workers who sued San Francisco over a COVID-19 vaccination policy to get relief beyond reinstatement in their jobs. Here's a look ...(read more)

Bus Driver Accuses NYC Transit Authority, Union Of Bias

A New York City bus driver has hit the city's transit authority and his union with a religious discrimination suit, accusing them of retaliating against him for complaining after he learned that a union leader had mocked h...(read more)

GM To Depose Ex-FCA Exec Again After Judge Flags Gaps

Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executive Alphons Iacobelli can be deposed a second time by counsel for General Motors LLC, a Michigan state judge ruled Thursday, emphasizing that Iacobelli must turn over all documents re...(read more)

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Fox Rothschild Can't Trim Hearing Impairment Suit, Atty Says

A former counsel at Fox Rothschild LLP told a Florida federal court Thursday that the firm shouldn't escape his civil rights claims over his firing after the firm refused to provide hearing aids, arguing that he did lodge ...(read more)

6th Circ. Says Late EEOC Charge Dooms Ex-Cop's Bias Suit

The Sixth Circuit refused Friday to reopen a former Detroit police officer's lawsuit alleging he was forced into retirement because of an on-the-job injury, agreeing with the lower court that the officer missed the deadlin...(read more)

Judge Favors Arbitration Of Ex-Jackson Lewis Atty's Bias Suit

A California federal judge appears poised to back Jackson Lewis' bid to force a disability bias suit from one of its former attorneys into arbitration, according to a tentative Thursday order which said he's not persuaded ...(read more)

Judge Says Email, Not Bias, Cost Public Defender His Job

A federal magistrate judge recommended that the Georgia Public Defender Council be freed from an attorney's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about racial bias and then hit with a retaliatory bar complaint, findin...(read more)

Kasowitz Wants Columbia Students' Deal Fees Suit Nixed

Kasowitz LLP asked a New York state judge Friday to dismiss a suit by a group of Columbia University students accusing it of wrongfully taking more than $6 million from a 2025 settlement in a suit over alleged antisemitism...(read more)

Ex-UPS Worker Appeals Judge's Refusal To Step Off Bias Suit

A Black former UPS worker said Friday he wants the Eleventh Circuit to review the dismissal of his race bias case, as well as a Georgia federal judge's refusal to recuse herself after she was disciplined for allegedly havi...(read more)

Dems Reintroduce Bill Barring Workplace Caregiver Bias

Two Democratic senators from New Jersey have reintroduced a bill that would make it illegal for employers to discriminate against workers who have to care for sick, disabled or aging family members.

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Labcorp Hit With Wage Class Action In Colorado Court

A former employee of a Labcorp in Denver has hit the company with a wage and hour lawsuit, accusing it of violating city, state and federal wage laws by failing to properly pay overtime, failing to give workers breaks and ...(read more)

Toyota Dealer Settles Wash. Pay Transparency Suit For $1M

A Washington state judge signed off on a $1 million settlement of claims that a Toyota dealer violated the state's pay transparency law by failing to include wage scales in its job listings.

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Philly Four Points Hotel Sued Over Irregular Scheduling

A group of hotel housekeepers have filed putative class claims against the Four Points by Sheraton in Philadelphia, saying it violated a city employment law by failing to provide workers with predictable, regular scheduling.

FEMA Subcontractor Defends No-Poach, Wage-Fixing Suit

A disaster response worker is defending a proposed class action accusing Fluor Federal Services Inc. and several subcontractors of fixing wages and agreeing not to hire each other's workers, arguing that one of the compani...(read more)

Temp Worker Says Waste Hauler Owes Pay For Waiting Time

A Massachusetts man who temporarily worked for a trash hauler while Teamsters-affiliated sanitation workers were on strike says he was not paid for time he was required to wait at a staging area to be transported to and fr...(read more)

Delivery Company Shuffled Workers To Dodge OT, Suit Says

An e-commerce delivery provider moved workers through a complex cycle of temporary staffing and payroll arrangements to obscure its violations of overtime pay law at a massive warehouse near O'Hare International Airport, a...(read more)

Justice Asks Gov't To Pick Best 'Poison' In H-2A Fine Case

A government attorney told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that it would be highly disruptive to require civil fines for H-2A visa program violations to be adjudicated solely in federal court, instead of through the U.S....(read more)