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TikTok Layoff Videos Pose Quandary for Bosses on How to Respond

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.

Foreign Farmworkers’ Labor Protections Solidified in Final Rule

Farmworkers on temporary visas would get new protections aimed at bolstering labor organizing efforts under newly finalized Labor Department regulations.

Red States Sue EEOC Over Abortion Stance in Pregnancy Rule

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.

Starbucks Wrong to Remove Union Notes From Café, NLRB Says

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.

401(k) Advice, Overtime Rules Poised to Reprise Obama-Era Fights

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.

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First Job Ad Pay Disclosure Suit Decision Raises Standing Issue

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.

Swift Transportation Hit With Class Bias Suit by Afghan Emigrant

Swift Transportation Company of Arizona LLC‘s policy requiring driver applicants to have maintained a US driver’s license for 12 months as a precondition of employment discriminates based on national origin and citizenship status, a new nationwide class lawsuit filed by an Afghan emigrant charges.

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Citi Spinoff Mints $4 Billion Fortune for CVC Buyout Barons (1)

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 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: Individual Employment Rights/Wrongful Discharge (D. Mont.)

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

Case: Discrimination/Promotion (N.D. Tex.)

The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development is granted summary judgment on a 58-year-old female attorney’s failure to promote claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a Texas federal district court ruled. Mayfield v. Fudge, 2024 BL 140586, N.D. Tex., 4:23-CV-00566-O, 4/24/24

Case: Discrimination/Pay Equity (E.D. Wis.)

A federal district court ruled that a female human resources administrator for the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry isn’t entitled to a trial for her pay discrimination claim under Title VII because the male comparator she identified wasn’t similarly situated due to vastly different job duties. Pratt v. Wis. Aluminum Foundry, 2024 BL 137067, E.D. Wis., 22-C-568, 4/22/24