Cleaning Contractor Must Rehire American Dream Mall Workers
A commercial cleaning company must rehire two workers who were fired for meeting with union organizers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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.
A commercial cleaning company must rehire two workers who were fired for meeting with union organizers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
A federal safety citation against a Texas road building company whose worker was struck by a car that drove into a work zone was thrown out by an administrative law judge.
US financial watchdogs plan to take another crack at regulating Wall Street executives’ pay — an outstanding requirement of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that has repeatedly failed to materialize.
A proposal to revive California’s indoor worker heat protection rule likely won’t be finished in time for the summer because of the process required, employer-side attorneys said.
Participants in a sheet metal workers’ pension plan negotiated a class settlement valued at more than $2.5 million that would boost the pensions of about 25 retirees who were approved for unreduced early retirement benefits.
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker failed to show the agency discriminated against her because of her race and national origin when it declined to promote her to a chief nurse role, a federal appeals court said.
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Federal judges are wrestling with how to define artificial intelligence when dealing with evidence presented in trials, with some raising concerns that too broad a definition could sweep in items as common as receipts and thermometers.
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.
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Rudolph Giuliani’s creditors expanded their probe into the former New York mayor’s finances, filing more than a dozen subpoenas in his bankruptcy case on Friday.
Kushner Cos. LLC, the real estate company controlled by the extended family of Trump in-law Jared Kushner, has named its fourth general counsel in four years.
Elon Musk’s lawyer is firing back at the attorney who accused him of trying to sabotage the tech billionaire’s deposition in a Texas defamation case.
Federal judges are wrestling with how to define artificial intelligence when dealing with evidence presented in trials, with some raising concerns that too broad a definition could sweep in items as common as receipts and thermometers.
Julie A. Frusciente and Katherine Kulik have joined Hinshaw & Culbertson as partners in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the firm said Friday.
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?
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC is denied summary judgment in part on a senior sales securities manager with colon/bladder paralysis’ failure to accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as genuine issues of fact remain, a North Carolina federal court ruled. Billesdon v. Wells Fargo Sec., LLC, 2024 BL 130603, W.D.N.C., 3:23-CV-00160-FDW-SCR, 4/16/24
A Texas federal district court partially denied summary judgment against NES Global Talent US Inc.
on the claims of a class of contract employees claiming they weren’t properly paid overtime for all hours worked in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Richardson v. NES Glob., LLC, 2024 BL 131595, S.D. Tex., H-20-223, 4/17/24
A District of Columbia federal district court granted summary judgment to Howard University Hospital on a race discrimination claim of a Black nurse who alleged that he was terminated due to his race. Onyebuchi v. Howard Univ. Hosp., 2024 BL 132750, D.D.C., 1:22-cv-03089 (TNM), 4/18/24
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