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Ambiguity Remains On Anti-DEI Grant Conditions

Although a recent decision in City of Chicago and City of Saint Paul v. U.S. Department of Justice temporarily hal... (more story)

What To Know As Courts Rethink McDonnell-Douglas

Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined the latest opportunity to address the viability of the McDonnell-Douglas ... (more story)

Limiting Worker Surveillance Risks Amid AI Regulatory Shifts

With workplace surveillance tools becoming increasingly common and a recent executive order aiming to preempt stat... (more story)

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Co. Underpaid JFK Airport Bartenders For Years, Suit Says

An operator of bars and restaurants at John F. Kennedy International Airport underpaid employees for years by unlawfully taking a tip credit, requiring off-the-clock work and undermining seniority protections ... (more story)

Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth

Seyfarth Shaw LLP's employment team locked in an arbitration win for an energy company accused of wage violations, successfully defended Seattle in a pandemic-related battle and shut down a long-running Califo... (more story)

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NLRB Attorneys Target Kinder Morgan Precedent At 9th Circ.

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)

Gov't Wants Voice Of America RIF Challenge Thrown Out

A lawsuit challenging the termination of over 500 Voice of America employees should be dismissed, the U.S. Agency of Global Media told a D.C. federal court, because the deputy CEO of the government-owned broad... (more story)

Boeing Can't Escape Bias Suit Over $12K Bonus

Boeing must face a proposed class action accusing it of excluding workers on long-term disability leave from a $12,000 bonus, as a Washington federal judge denied the company's dismissal motion and remanded th... (more story)

Starbucks Gets Mo.'s 'Speculative' DEI Bias Suit Thrown Out

A Missouri federal judge 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 non-speculativ... (more story)

NLRB Official Approves Vote For Calif. Hospital Housekeepers

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)

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Funeral Home Segregates Bathrooms, EEOC Tells Court

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused a cemetery and funeral home operator of discriminating against Black employees by denying them access to "preferred" bathroom and break room spaces ... (more story)

Guam Can't Appeal Military Leave Suit Loss At 9th Circ.

A retirement fund for Guam government employees did not meet the standard for an immediate appeal of a ruling that its leave-sharing program violates federal military service protections, a federal judge ruled... (more story)

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11th Circ. Says Slur Allegations Back Harassment Suit

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)

11th Circ. Backs CBP's Female-Only Search Policy

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed a jury verdict that found the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had a legitimate reason to create three women-only assignments at the Port of Tampa, because of a U.S.... (more story)

EEOC, Law Students End Legal Battle Over Firm DEI Letters

A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing ... (more story)

Connecticut Law Firm Can't Duck Title VII Suit Due To Size

Connecticut law firm Vargas Chapman Woods LLC cannot escape from a harassment and retaliation suit based on the argument that it is not covered by Title VII due to its small size, a Connecticut federal judge h... (more story)

Ex-MSU Employee Claims Retaliation For Harassment Reports

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.

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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse

A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has w... (more story)

Deputies Say Wayne County Flubbed Payroll System Switch

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.

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5th Circ. Backs Texas Farm Bureau In Ex-Manager's OT Suit

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.

Ex-President Accuses Physician AI Co. Of Fraud, Wage Theft

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)

NC Restaurants Say They Didn't 'Keep' Tips In DOL Wage Suit

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)

NY Forecast: Home Aides Ask For Preliminary OK Of $6M Deal

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)

FLSA Does Not Bar Claim Waivers, Wash. Judge Says

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)