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Child Labor Violators’ Profits in Labor Solicitor’s Crosshairs

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.

X Corp. Must Face Worker’s Age Bias Class Over Musk Takeover

X Corp. lost its bid to nix a former Twitter employee’s class claims of intentional age bias in mass layoffs conducted after Elon Musk took over the social media giant.

H-1B Seekers Can Sue Over Visa Revocations for Alleged Fraud

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.

EEOC Sues Sheetz for Race Bias Over Criminal Record Screens

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.

Supreme Court’s New Test for Bias Claims Still Needs Hashing Out

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.

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Nike Says Job Cuts at Oregon Headquarters to Total More Than 700

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FTX Investors Settle With Bankman-Fried to Pursue Promoters (1)

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The Artificial Intelligence Dilemma: Can Laws Keep Up?

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?

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Case: Disabilities Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (W.D.N.C.)

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

Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (S.D. Tex.)

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

Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (D.D.C.)

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