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NY Severance Rules Persist Despite McLaren Macomb Threat

Despite recent calls to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's decision in McLaren Macomb, New York's robus... (more story)

Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks

Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes... (more story)

NLRB Memo Signals Narrower View Of Protected Activism

A recent National Labor Relations Board memo concluding that Microsoft lawfully discharged two employees who condu... (more story)

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UAW's Fain Wins Reelection, Unofficial Results Show

Shawn Fain appears to have won another term as president of the United Auto Workers and his allies won every executive board seat they sought, according to unofficial results the UAW reported Tuesday following... (more story)

Tufts Seeks To Nix Order Reinstating Prof Fired For Office Sex

Tufts University said it shouldn't have to reinstate a professor who was fired for having sexual relations in his office while a student worked next door, telling a Massachusetts federal court to strike down a... (more story)

NLRB Defends Union Ouster Ruling at DC Circuit

The National Labor Relations Board asked the D.C. Circuit to keep a previous board ruling finding that a New York commercial laundry company unlawfully withdrew recognition from a Workers United unit and helpe... (more story)

Feds Propose More Scrutiny For Visa Extension Petitions

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it wants to eliminate a regulation that directed it to give deference to previous eligibility determinations for nonimmigrant foreign workers when it considers pe... (more story)

High Court Won't Hear Ex-United Worker's Suit Against IAM

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a lawsuit brought by a former United Airlines customer service agent seeking to bring claims against her union for failing to take her wrongful discharge cl... (more story)

CVS Fights NLRB Bid To Toss 5th Circ. Petition

CVS has urged the Fifth Circuit to deny the National Labor Relations Board's bid to dismiss its petition challenging a labor board order, saying its agent's extensive operations in Texas establish proper venue.

NLRB Official Rejects Bid To Grow Wash. Nursing Unit

A National Labor Relations Board official denied a nursing union's bid to include a group of Washington hospital workers in a bargaining unit of registered nurses at a separate hospital, ruling that a previous... (more story)

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Ex-AmTrust Atty Says Insurer Targeted Older Employees

A former staff attorney for AmTrust Financial Services Inc. is suing his former employer New Jersey state court, alleging that his firing was the result of a deliberate, yearslong campaign to purge the litigat... (more story)

Harvard Fired Jewish Worker Out Of Religious Bias, Suit Says

Harvard College fired a Jewish worker after he took time off to observe Rosh Hashanah, according to a new religious bias suit the former employee filed in New York federal court.

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High Court Won't Take Up Texas A&M Prof's FMLA Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to review a Texas A&M University professor's lawsuit alleging she was denied tenure because of pregnancy-related time off, leaving in place a state court's conclusion tha... (more story)

CU Boulder Hiked Fees For Records Requests, Suit Says

An administrator at the University of Colorado Boulder claimed in Colorado state court Thursday that the school improperly withheld and attempted to overcharge for records requested related to harassment he ex... (more story)

Veterinarian Says He Was Axed For Flagging Bias, Harassment

A veterinarian filed suit against a Georgia animal hospital in federal court, alleging the company fired him in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination, sexual harassment and disability discrimin... (more story)

Texas Firm Aims To Sink Ex-Attorney's Military Bias Suit

The Law Offices of Allen Rad PC on Friday urged a Texas federal court to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former attorney who alleges he was terminated because of his Texas National Guard service, a... (more story)

Whole Foods Defeats Ex-Worker's Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

Whole Foods defeated a former employee's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's Black, with an Illinois federal judge concluding he couldn't overcome the supermarket chain's explanation that he was let go ... (more story)

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Pay Rounding System Stiffed Healthcare Workers, Suit Says

A nurse for an Oklahoma health system claimed his employer underpaid him through a compensation rounding policy that fails to credit time worked when employees clock in early for a shift, according to a new pr... (more story)

Trucker Says Swift's Bid To Trim OT Class Comes Too Late

A long-haul truck driver urged a Washington federal court to reject his employer's attempt to strip an overtime theory from a certified class action, arguing the trucking company already litigated and lost the... (more story)

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Insurance Co. Can't Undo Wage Collective Ruling

A New Jersey federal judge upheld a decision allowing sales agents to pursue wage claims as a collective against an insurance company, rejecting the insurer's arguments that the workers weren't similarly situa... (more story)

Florida Roofer Says He Asked About Overtime Pay, Got Fired

A roofer has brought Florida federal proposed collective action alleging the owner of two construction companies didn't pay overtime, claiming he was terminated from employment soon after asking questions abou... (more story)

NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Weighs Toss Of Union Retaliation Suit

This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to reverse a lower court's decision dismissing a suit accusing a construction workers union of retaliating against two officials for their support of a candi... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: SF Wants Bias Suit Out Of Federal Court

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on whether a former employee's discrimination suit against San Francisco and the city's district attorney's office should remain in federal court. Here's... (more story)

Legal Marketing Co. Inks $600K Call Center Rep Wage Deal

Legal marketing company Lawyer.com Inc. agreed to pay $600,000 to settle claims in a New Jersey federal court that it misclassified call center representatives as independent contractors and failed to pay them... (more story)