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A union-backed proposal to speed negotiations over first labor contracts that has drawn rare Republican support in Congress may soon come up for consideration in the House, leading business groups to mount opposition to a proposal they say would impose unrealistic timelines on contract negotiations.
An Illinois federal judge refused Thursday to hand Amazon a full victory in a former warehouse associate's suit alleging she was unlawfully fired for taking pregnancy leave, finding her claim of retaliation under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act should go to a jury.
A former overnight stocker's allegations against Walmart lacked enough detail to plausibly support claims for missed breaks, unpaid overtime and other violations, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday, tossing the worker's proposed class action.
Dawn Solowey and Michael Steinberg
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has placed a heightened focus on religious accommodation requests... (more story)
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A Massachusetts appellate court's recent decision in Galvin v. Roxbury Community College, finding that an employee... (more story)
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Now that Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has reached the 100-day mark in office, his first set of actions reve... (more story)
A watchdog overseeing United Auto Workers' kickback-scandal reforms told a Michigan federal judge Thursday that union President Shawn Fain's misconduct accusations against Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock wer... (more story)
Maryland has become the 14th state to ban employers from holding mandatory anti-union meetings, joining Maine, Illinois, Minnesota and others in outlawing what labor activists call captive audience meetings.
A Washington hospital operator does not jointly employ doctors and other staff of a hospital services provider, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, reversing a regional official's ruling and call... (more story)
A D.C. federal court rejected scientists' bid to block NASA from shuttering its largest research library and suspending access to a related database for space mission documentation, finding they failed to show... (more story)
The operators of a New York City hotel must pay a roughly $1.1 million arbitration award in a wage and benefit dispute with a hotel workers union, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A painting company that defeated litigation claiming it owed a union pension fund $427,000 can't make the fund cover its roughly $350,000 in legal fees, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, saying the company cou... (more story)
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Thursday submitted a revised application to federal rail regulators for their proposed $85 billion mega-merger, touting the efficiencies and cost-savings of their combined... (more story)
A former Wayfair manager should get nearly $4.7 million on her claims that she was placed on a performance improvement plan and ultimately fired because she complained about supervisors' age bias and took seve... (more story)
A pilot claimed that Frontier Airlines discriminated against him during training because of his age, prohibiting him from taking part in certain training programs and making jokes about his age in violation of... (more story)
A former Jenner & Block LLP employee told an Illinois federal judge that she didn't need to disclose that she's a "Christian witch" in order to seek an exemption to the law firm's COVID-19 vaccine requirement,... (more story)
A former spokesperson for Republican state lawmakers in Connecticut did not present enough evidence to support her claims that she was pushed out of her job because of her gender and post-traumatic stress diso... (more story)
The Fifth Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a suit from a cop who claimed a prayer he posted to Facebook criticizing his supervisors got him unlawfully fired, ruling he lacked evidence that his terminatio... (more story)
A New Jersey university must face a former professor's lawsuit claiming she was demoted because she was in her 60s and fired after she complained, as a federal judge ruled her allegations were detailed enough ... (more story)
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. agreed to settle a Black employee's suit claiming he was passed over for a promotion in favor of a less qualified white woman because of his race and history of race bias com... (more story)
Los Angeles County knowingly required child welfare workers to perform unpaid overtime to manage workloads that could not reasonably be completed within a standard 40-hour workweek, according to a proposed col... (more story)
A look at the new U.S. Department of Labor joint employer proposed rule and a breakdown of a Sixth Circuit home care workers decision are among Law360 Employment Authority's wage and hour stories to catch up on from April.
A mental healthcare company's bid to throw out a jury verdict finding it willfully violated federal and state wage laws fell short because its post-trial arguments lacked supporting evidence, a North Carolina ... (more story)
A steakhouse chain will pay $7 million to end servers' claims that its tip-pool practices left them underpaid, a Colorado federal judge said Thursday, granting the deal preliminary approval.
A Tennessee commercial kitchen equipment repair company fired two technicians after they complained to federal regulators about the company's wage practices and later told employees the terminations were inten... (more story)
Washington's highest court has agreed to consider hospital system Providence Health & Services' appeal of a $230 million judgment for workers who accused the provider of illegally adjusting their clock-in and ... (more story)
A Domino's franchisee cannot immediately appeal a ruling requiring reimbursement of delivery drivers' actual vehicle expenses rather than a reasonable approximation, a New Mexico federal judge ruled Wednesday,... (more story)
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said the estate of an oil refinery maintenance worker cannot bring certain construction-related claims against an insulation company over his asbestos exposure, yet it ... (more story)
The former director of a public housing authority who pled guilty to hiding his full $325,000 a year income from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said that conviction and others should not ... (more story)
A mortgage lender still suffered from suspensions to its business during COVID-19 even if it saw an overall increase in revenue, it told a California federal court, pushing back on the U.S. government's attemp... (more story)