Brittany Pietsch inspired a wave of copycats after she posted on TikTok a recording of her tense conversation with two Cloudflare representatives informing her that she was being let go.
Farmworkers on temporary visas would get new protections aimed at bolstering labor organizing efforts under newly finalized Labor Department regulations.
A coalition of 17 red state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, targeting its addition of abortion in recently finalized regulations protecting pregnant workers.
The National Labor Relations Board has found that Starbucks Corp. illegally removed pro-union messages from community boards and threatened workers during unionization campaigns at several stores in Michigan.
Two signature US Labor Department policies are almost certain to face a test of whether the latest updates to the agency’s regulations can survive legal deficiencies that led to the demise of their Obama-era predecessors.
Restaurant groups will get a second chance to present to a federal appeals court their case against a US Labor Department rule limiting when employers can use the tip-credit, or pay tipped-employees less than minimum wage.
Amendments to Russia’s labor code that require all wages to be used to calculate overtime pay rates were published April 22 and take effect Sept. 1.
A White woman lost her class lawsuit challenging an
A group of alcohol promotion models have been denied preliminary approval of a wage-and-hour class action settlement with two marketing companies, according to a federal judge’s order.
Kansas is making substantive modifications to its unemployment insurance program under a bill that will go into effect on July 1.
GKN North America Services Inc. agreed to pay $2.95 million to resolve a proposed class action saying the auto part maker used a 401(k) asset allocation service that funneled workers’ retirement savings into overpriced and conflicted funds.
A New Jersey gymnastics coach sued the United States Center for SafeSport Inc., the organization that investigates claims of abuse in Olympic sports, challenging his three-month suspension for alleged emotional misconduct.
A union may be coming to one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers after
Home security giant ADT may have to roll back a new performance-based pay plan at two of its facilities in Kentucky after a federal judge found the company violated federal labor law.
Washington applicants suing businesses for omitting a pay range from their ads must be bona fide job seekers who were harmed by the missing information, a federal judge said in dismissing one of the earliest lawsuits brought under a state law requiring transparency in postings.
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’s top auto-safety regulator extended its years-long investigation of <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/TSLA%20US%20Equity/BICO","_id":"0000018f-1bec-d583-afbf-dbfcfba30000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot to determine whether a fix the carmaker made months ago does enough to keep people from misusing the system.
Zimmerman Reed LLP won a battle but lost the war in its effort to force L’Occitane Inc. to arbitrate 3,144 individual privacy claims brought by the law firm’s clients over the cosmetics firm’s alleged sharing of their information with
Police, prosecutors, and other law enforcement officers are protected by New Jersey law from publication of their home addresses—even if the address is the center of public misconduct reporting, the state appeals court ruled.
About three decades ago, a group of Citigroup Inc. dealmakers including Donald Mackenzie, Steven Koltes and Rolly van Rappard left the Wall Street giant to strike out on their own. That decision has proved lucrative, with the trio now among the biggest winners of the long-awaited initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners.
The executive director of the International Legal Finance Association is leaving the trade group for a role as chief of staff to the new republican commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.
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 Texas federal district court granted summary judgment to Edwards Aquifer Authority on an age discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of a 62-year-old chief technical officer who alleged that he was demoted due to his age. Schindel v. Edwards Aquifer Auth., 2024 BL 142075, W.D. Tex., SA-22-CV-00960-JKP, 4/23/24
A Texas federal court granted summary judgment to RBC Capital Markets, LLC on a retaliation claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of a branch service manager who alleged that he was terminated after submitting a complaint about his supervisor’s sexual harassment. Mason v. RBC Cap. Mkts., LLC., 2024 BL 142143, S.D. Tex., 4:22-cv-3454, 4/25/24
Genuine issues of fact preclude summary judgment to CoreCivic of Tennessee, LLC on a unit manager with anxiety and PTSD’s wrongful discharge claim under Montana law, where evidence suggests CoreCivic’s purported reason for discharge may be pretextual, a federal court ruled. Christiaens v. Corecivic of Tenn., LLC, 2024 BL 140493, D. Mont., CV-22-111-GF-BMM, 4/24/24
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