Roughly 4 million workers will take home more money when they work more than 40 hours a week under a new US Labor Department rule that expands overtime pay eligibility under federal law.
Several US Supreme Court justices expressed support for
A California “right to disconnect” proposal aims to protect workers from the growing expectation that they’re always available to their bosses, spurring opposition from business groups that say it would create a compliance mess especially for management of salaried employees.
The US Labor Department has released a closely watched rule that will expand strict fiduciary standards of conduct to cover more retirement plan advisers, and has already drawn ire from Wall Street.
The employee stock ownership plan of bankrupt paper company Appvion Inc. on Tuesday had part of its case revived against former corporate directors and financial advisers it says mishandled a decades-old transaction that swapped workers’ 401(k) assets for stock in the company.
A union that represents
Hanover Foods Corp. has been cited for 70 violations and faces proposed penalties of more than $761,876 for safety and health hazards at its Centre Hall, Pa., facility, the Labor Department announced Tuesday.
A former food service worker at East Carolina University is able to proceed with a retaliation claim against his ex-employer after a district court dismissed other related claims and a dozen individuals from the lawsuit.
A former American Federation of Government Employees secretary-treasurer lost his bids for a new trial and attorneys’ fees after more than half a decade of “arduous litigation,” a federal judge said.
A Connecticut health benefits fund accused major insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers of engaging in a widespread deceptive pricing scheme that caused the fund to overpay for diabetes medications.
Recent budget cuts mean the EPA’s chemicals office will have to more carefully pick and choose what it can focus on, the department’s head told staffers on Tuesday.
A former Dykema Gossett PLLC administrative assistant failed to show the law firm fired her because of her age or her internal discrimination complaint, a federal appellate court said Tuesday.
A decision of the Federal Labor Relations Authority vacating arbitration awards in favor of the the federal employees’ union must be reinstated, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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.
A former Dykema Gossett PLLC administrative assistant failed to show the law firm fired her because of her age or her internal discrimination complaint, a federal appellate court said Tuesday.
Matt Whited has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the Chicago office, the firm said Tuesday.
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The former head of the company that owned the National Enquirer told a New York jury about how he killed stories about Donald Trump’s extramarital affairs to boost his 2016 presidential campaign.
Bob Coffield has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner with the corporate practice group in Huntington, W.Va., the firm said Monday.
Gwendolyn Williamson has joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the investment management practice group in the Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Tuesday.
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?
A Tennessee federal court granted summary judgment to Delek US Holdings & Subsidiaries on the claim of a senior director who was over 40 years old alleging that he was laid off because of his age and replaced by someone younger in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Mazza v. Delek United States Holdings, 2024 BL 135419, M.D. Tenn., 3:23-cv-00073, 4/19/24
An Alabama federal district court granted summary judgment to Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine’s top officials on the claims of a scholarship advisor that she was discharged without being given adequate due process in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Beauchamp v. Antee, 2024 BL 135379, M.D. Ala., Case. No: 3:22-cv-504-RAH, 4/19/24
An Alabama federal court granted summary judgment to the associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine of Auburn University on a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 of a coordinator of student services alleging discharge without an adequate pretermination hearing. Gideon v. Camus, 2024 BL 135403, M.D. Ala., Case. No: 3:22-cv-176-RAH-SMD, 4/19/24
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