Expert Analysis

What Justices' FLSA Ruling Means For 2-Step Collective Cert.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in EMD Sales v. Carrera may have sounded the death knell for the decades-... (more story)

What Day 1 Bondi Memos Mean For Corporate Compliance

After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s flurry of memos last week declaring new enforcement priorities on issues rangin... (more story)

5 Things For Private Employers To Do After Trump's DEI Order

Following President Donald Trump's recent executive order pushing the private sector to narrow, and even end, dive... (more story)

Labor More

Trump Sets Across-The-Board 25% Tariff On Steel, Aluminum

President Donald Trump teed up a 25% tariff on all imported steel and aluminum Monday evening, continuing a trend of sweeping, aggressive trade actions that have defined his first three weeks in office.

Union Backs NLRB's ULP Findings Against Casino At DC Circ.

A hospitality workers union defended a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a Las Vegas casino violated federal labor law with a benefits rollout during an organizing campaign, telling the D.C. Circ... (more story)

7th Circ. Skeptical Of Co.'s Hearing Plea In NLRB Row

A Seventh Circuit judge took a fire suppression company to task at a Monday argument for making the wrong argument in its challenge to a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it breached a settlement by r... (more story)

NLRB Attorneys Tell 1st Circ. Northeastern Cop Union Is OK

A National Labor Relations Board official correctly allowed Northeastern University's sergeants and sergeant-detectives to unionize in 2023, and the board properly found last year that the university violated ... (more story)

Court Won't Reinstate NLRB Brief In Newspaper Union Suit

A federal judge won't reinstate a brief stricken from the record in a dispute between the National Labor Relations Board and the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, saying Friday that the board had misin... (more story)

'Stand Down': CFPB's Acting Chief Pulls Employees Off Job

The Trump administration's acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought told agency staff Monday to "stand down" from doing any work, the latest in a series of rapid-fire moves that are ... (more story)

Kroger Chain Says Strike Is Bid To Force 'Multi-Union' Talks

The Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers sued the union representing Colorado workers on Friday in federal court, alleging strikes at King Soopers stores in the state are a pressure tactic to "force multi-u... (more story)

Discrimination More

Mechanic Says Elevator Co. Fired Him Over Paternity Leave

A New York City elevator mechanic sued his former employer in New York federal court, claiming the company retaliated against him when he raised workplace safety concerns, fired him when he said he intended to... (more story)

Harassment Suit Against Fox Sports, Hosts Sent To Fed Court

The lawsuit accusing Fox Sports executives and on-air hosts of sexual harassment and creating a toxic workplace environment has been moved from California state court to federal court, where the two sides were... (more story)

Conservative Groups Say ABA Clerk, Intern Programs Illegal

Conservative advocacy groups urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday to scrutinize the American Bar Association's diversity and internship programs, claiming the organization is commit... (more story)

Judge Wary Of Doctor's Bid To Halt WWE Accuser's Info Hunt

A Connecticut judge on Monday appeared skeptical of a celebrity doctor's bid to end an information request by a woman separately accusing World Wrestling Entertainment and its founder Vince McMahon of sex traf... (more story)

Black EEOC Atty Says Telework Bid Earned Her Cold Shoulder

A Black U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney sued the agency in Texas federal court, alleging that she was passed over for promotions and a senior leader training program after requesting a di... (more story)

Former Palm GC's Racial Bias Claim Should End, Judge Says

A New York federal judge has recommended dismissing a race discrimination claim brought by an ex-general counsel for The Palm steakhouse chain's owner while allowing her retaliation and breach of contract clai... (more story)

Ex-SEC Atty's Bias Case Not Holding, Despite Deal Talks

A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Friday to delay the upcoming trial in a lawsuit filed by a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who sued the agency for racial and age discrimination, desp... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Medical System Illegally Rounds Workers' Time, Suit Says

A county hospital system employs a policy that modifies when workers clock in and out to avoid paying them all the wages they are owed, which can result in missed overtime pay, a proposed class and collective ... (more story)

Little Caesars Cheated Workers Out Of OT, Suit Claims

Pizza chain Little Caesars didn't pay workers for the time they spent responding to texts and phone calls outside their scheduled shifts, a former co-manager said in a proposed class and collective action file... (more story)

The Washington Supreme Court won't consider Virginia Mason Medical Center's petition to overturn a lower court decision favoring nurses and other employees in their uncompensated meal break lawsuit. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Wash. Justices Won't Review Workers' $3.3M Meal Break Win

A class of hospital workers can keep a $3.3 million award in a closely-watched case over uncompensated meal breaks, after the Washington Supreme Court decided it won't take on a hospital's bid to overturn a lo... (more story)

Co.'s Bid For Sanctions In Wage Suit Is Abusive, Drivers Say

A food distributor facing two drivers' suit alleging unpaid wages engaged in "abusive litigation'' when it said the workers were unwilling to appear for depositions and asked a California federal court to sanc... (more story)

Sheriff's Office Must Face Workers' Wage Payment Suit

A North Carolina federal judge refused to throw out a wage and hour class action that detention center employees lodged against a sheriff's office, adopting a magistrate judge's finding that the case should he... (more story)

9th Circ. Judge Doubts Justices' FLSA Test Fits Cracker Barrel

A Ninth Circuit judge was skeptical Friday of Cracker Barrel's bid to upend an order granting servers collective status based on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions ... (more story)

Distributor Says Drivers Must Be Sanctioned In Wage Suit

A food distributor urged a California federal court to slap sanctions on a pair of drivers who brought wage and hour allegations against the company, saying the workers' failure to appear for depositions and s... (more story)