The US Labor Department is pursuing some of the toughest remedies for child labor violations, such as company profits, an escalation the agency’s top lawyer says is needed to end an alarming trend of minors working in dangerous conditions.
Indian workers have standing to pursue legal claims for revocation of H-1B visas without proper notice as a result of their employers’ attempts to game the lottery registration system, a federal judge ruled.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Sheetz Inc., alleging the convenience store chain discriminated against job applicants based on their race by refusing to hire individuals with criminal histories.
The US Supreme Court’s new standard for the harm a worker must show to challenge allegedly discriminatory job transfers contains enough ambiguities to spark further debate over what’s necessary to bring a viable bias claim, lawyers and law professors said.
Sprouts Farmers Market will pay $265,000 to a class of workers to settle a sex discrimination charge at a store location in the San Fernando Valley, Calif., according to the EEOC on Friday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent request for
The US Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal judges must dismiss employment cases subject to mandatory arbitration or whether they should instead pause them pending the outcome of private dispute resolution proceedings.
Vicars Powersports will pay $75,000 to settle an EEOC discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a female sales manager who said she was fired because she is a woman, the agency said Thursday.
The US Supreme Court signaled interest in hearing a case over Cornell University’s retirement plan by asking the school to respond to a petition asking how relationships between benefit plans and their service providers can be challenged under ERISA.
We’re not back to 2021’s heady pace of worker churn, but fear of job loss appears to be dissipating, and workers are starting to become more confident about exploring their options.
Health-care facilities across California are preparing for a new minimum wage covering the industry to take effect June 1 even as the governor has signaled there could be changes to the law in the face of a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
The US Labor Department is pursuing some of the toughest remedies for child labor violations, such as company profits, an escalation the agency’s top lawyer says is needed to end an alarming trend of minors working in dangerous conditions.
New details in a probe examining whether the Federal Circuit’s oldest and longest-serving member is fit to remain on the bench highlight issues about anti-discrimination protections in the judiciary and efforts to obtain medical information about the judge.
The US Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal judges must dismiss employment cases subject to mandatory arbitration or whether they should instead pause them pending the outcome of private dispute resolution proceedings.
John Koenigsknecht and David Stone have joined Crowell & Moring as partners in Chicago, the firm said Thursday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can be punished by the state bar, if the bar proves his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results was meritless, a Texas court of appeals ruled late Thursday.
Twelve jurors were selected for
The Biden administration on Friday finalized a plan to prevent oil development across more than half of the US government’s mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska and set the stage to block road construction essential to opening a copper mine in the state.
The risks that artificial intelligence represents have come into sharper focus: disinformation, potential job loss, perhaps even an existential threat to humanity. Is government capable of putting guardrails around such a fast-moving technology?
Managers at a Hawaii Starbucks location unlawfully interfered with union organizing efforts by threatening workers’ benefits and wage increases if they unionized. Starbucks Corporation, 2024 BL 131104, N.L.R.B., 20–CA–296184, 4/17/24
The city of West Memphis, Ark. and its officials are entitled to summary judgment on a Black police officer’s race, gender, hostile work environment and retaliation claims under Title VII, after he was suspended without pay for five days for violating anti-harassment policies. Allen v. McClendon, 2024 BL 109112, E.D. Ark., 2:21-cv-00172 KGB, 3/29/24
The Sixth Circuit vacated a district court judgment ordering Shelby County to pay $1.5 million to a fired Army reservist and jail employee who sued the county under the USERRA after signing an agreement releasing all claims against it. Ward v. Shelby Cnty., 2024 BL 123918, 6th Cir., 22-6054, 4/11/24
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