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.

The Second Circuit on Thursday refused to halt pending National Labor Relations Board proceedings against a nursing home and a group of affiliated facilities accused of federal labor law violations, finding th... (more story)

The United Auto Workers and Volkswagen reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract covering more than 3,000 workers at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which if ratified would become a landmark initial... (more story)

Nexstar's objection to a National Labor Relations Board order requiring it to bargain with a news station in Rochester, New York, rests on a "painful misunderstanding" of labor law, the Communications Workers ... (more story)

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last ... (more story)

Medical department employees at an Iowa health center can vote on being represented by a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, finding that the unit they're petitioning for does... (more story)

An American Federation of Teachers affiliate may move forward with a union representation election at a trio of South Jersey nursing homes, with a National Labor Relations Board official greenlighting the election Wednesday.

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)

Patients of Children's Hospital Colorado who want a state court to reinstate their gender-affirming medical care told a judge Thursday that the court's enforcement of state law and the rule of law is their onl... (more story)

The Sixth Circuit backed a trial court's ruling that an arbitration agreement didn't apply to a Black ex-security officer's suit claiming Detroit's Renaissance Center failed to address concerns that white offi... (more story)

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial inte... (more story)

Two nonprofit public interest law firms are pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit opinion finding the National Football League's arbitration process unenforceable, saying the opinion encou... (more story)

A New Jersey appellate panel has backed the New Jersey Department of Treasury's win in a disability discrimination suit by one of its employees, ruling her claims are either time barred or lack the necessary e... (more story)

Ohio State University was sued Tuesday in federal court by a former football program employee alleging it applied "gendered assumptions about credibility, aggression and victimhood" against him and fired him a... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Labor should pay attorney fees and expenses that a human resources manager at a Tennessee pork farm incurred to defend the agency's retaliation suit, the manager told a federal court Thu... (more story)

A Red Lobster worker must pursue her Illinois wage claims in arbitration rather than federal court because she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she was rehired, the restaurant chain said Thursday.

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)

An aircraft services company stiffed workers on overtime and pay for all hours worked, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action complaint filed in Texas federal court.

A neuroscience company and a related entity paid their former chief operations officer late or not at all and cheated her out of overtime, the former executive said in a proposed class and collective action in... (more story)

An energy infrastructure company and a construction company underpaid workers by treating part of their compensation as per diem payments excluded from overtime calculations, a worker said in a proposed collec... (more story)

A Kentucky coal miner accused a Colorado energy company in a proposed collective action Wednesday of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by forcing employees to work more than an hour of overtime every workday without pay.