Expert Analysis

NLRB Ruling Allows Leeway On Disciplining Misconduct

The National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Lion Elastomers gives employers more room to discipline em... (more story)

Defending Hospital Antisteering Clauses From DOJ Scrutiny

The Trump administration has recently made clear that pursuing antitrust challenges to antisteering provisions in ... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Navigating Anti-American Bias Scrutiny

In light of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraging workers to file charges alleging national... (more story)

Labor More

Split Full 9th Circ. Backs Block On ICE Voter Fraud Probe

A Ninth Circuit majority kept in place Friday a panel's recent ruling refusing to pause an injunction blocking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from carrying out a "surge initiative" to question... (more story)

Teamsters' International Union Must Face Worker's Pay Suit

An Oklahoma federal judge on Monday ruled that the Teamsters' international union must face a former office worker's lawsuit seeking unpaid overtime and severance, saying she had presented enough evidence to s... (more story)

A person's hand holds a sign that displays a union's heart-shaped logo and the words Honk to Support Healthcare Workers.
Union Backs NLRB Bid To Force NJ Rehab Center To Bargain

A healthcare workers union urged a New Jersey federal judge to grant the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction forcing a rehab center to bargain, panning the employer's claim it didn't know tw... (more story)

Airport Cleaning Co. Seeks To Trim SEIU Pension Suit

An airport cleaning subcontractor did not agree to pay supplemental retirement contributions and cannot be held liable for payments predating its labor agreement, the company told a D.C. federal court in its b... (more story)

Split NLRB Backs Union Election Order At Chemical Co.

A split National Labor Relations Board panel has upheld a decision directing a union representation election at a Texas chemical plant, with a dissenting panel member saying the majority ignored evidence of th... (more story)

Fired Worker Asks 6th Circ. To Revive Race Bias Suit

A Michigan federal judge improperly cleared a construction company of allegations that it discriminatorily fired a union-represented Black employee for punching a co-worker, the ex-worker told the Sixth Circui... (more story)

Truck Dealership Bargained In Bad Faith, NLRB Judge Says

A truck dealership operator and two linked staffing companies violated federal labor law by bargaining in bad faith with a United Auto Workers local, withdrawing recognition from the union at an Illinois deale... (more story)

Discrimination More

FCC Stops Broadcasters' Workforce Diversity Data Collection

The Federal Communications Commission will once again stop collecting workforce diversity data from the broadcast industry.

Hospice Co. Strikes Pact To Wrap Up EEOC Race Bias Suit

A home hospice provider has agreed to pay $40,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business blocked a Black employee from better job assignments and more hours, accor... (more story)

NTSB seal
NTSB Defeats Ex-Member's Race Bias Suit Over Removal

A D.C. federal judge shut down a former National Transportation Safety Board member's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully removed by President Donald Trump because he's Black, pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court... (more story)

Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

Ex-Wells Fargo Director Seeks $1M Fee Award After Appeal

A former Wells Fargo director and an attorney who represented him in his $22 million Americans with Disabilities Act suit against the bank are making a second attempt to collect attorney fees, pushing a North ... (more story)

Up Next At High Court: Religious Liberty & Unpled Defenses

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its November sitting by hearing oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's universal preschool program and a dispute asking the justices to settl... (more story)

Humanitarian Nonprofit Won't Face Sex Harassment Claims

A California appeals court refused to revive claims that a former employee of actor Sean Penn's nongovernmental organization was sexually harassed on the job by a firefighter, concluding an arbitrator did not ... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Ga. Atty Wins Bid To Revive Fee-Split Suit Against Firm

The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived an attorney's suit over compensation, finding that factual disputes should have prevented the trial court from granting summary judgment to Casino Law Group LLC.

Pa. Justices Nix Damages For CEO Who Was Paid Late

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled an employee can't sue an employer for liquidated damages stemming from unpaid wages if those wages were paid before the lawsuit was filed, even if the payday came late.

Detention company logo on a white shirt sleeve
GEO Settles Before Trial In Colo. Detainees' Forced Labor Suit

Former detainees of a Colorado immigration detention facility and private prison operator The GEO Group Inc. struck a deal Monday ahead of trial in a 12-year-old class action that alleged the U.S. Immigration ... (more story)

1-800-Flowers Shorted Delivery Drivers on OT, Suit Claims

Flower delivery serviceĀ 1-800-Flowers failed to pay its workers proper overtime wages and took unlawful kickbacks by requiring its workers to pay for their own gas, a former delivery driver has alleged in a cl... (more story)

Boeing Beats Workers' Suit Over Unpaid Shuttle Time

A South Carolina federal judge tossed a proposed collective action accusing Boeing of failing to pay employees for time spent waiting for and riding mandatory shuttles to its aircraft plant, ruling that the tr... (more story)

Philly Health System's Time Rounding Shorted OT, Suit Says

A former hospital supervisor has accused a Philadelphia health system in Pennsylvania state court of shortchanging hourly workers on overtime by rounding their clock-in and clock-out times to the nearest 15 mi... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: High Court Weighs 'Headless' PAGA Claims

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for California Supreme Court oral arguments on whether employees can bring claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act on behalf of only other workers and n... (more story)