Starbucks Debuts Timeline for Upping Benefits at Unionized Cafes
Starbucks Corp. announced a timeline for granting pay increases and additional benefits to workers at unionized stores who were excluded when they were first rolled out in 2022.
Facing budget caps and Congressional roadblocks, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su plans to do more with less and use the agency’s enforcement funding and staff in a more calculated and targeted approach.
The National Labor Relations Board had enough evidence to conclude that a Chicago-area car dealership illegally fired a worker who was active in his union, a federal appeals court held.
The head of a powerful federal employee union blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra for ignoring several communications and an offer to meet amid acrimonious negotiations for a new labor contract.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers remembers working in a car factory to put himself through college. This year the longtime Republican is leaning into his ability to connect with historically Democratic auto union workers in a competitive Senate race in Michigan.
Starbucks Corp. announced a timeline for granting pay increases and additional benefits to workers at unionized stores who were excluded when they were first rolled out in 2022.
Designer Hayley Paige Gutman loss her bid for reconsideration over sole access to the "@misshayleypaige” Instagram and Pinterest accounts while a federal court handles questions on remand about their ownership.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed proposals to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour and to eliminate an exemption that prevents farmworkers from being covered by state minimum wage law.
A New Athens, Ill., hog farm has been sued by the EEOC after allegedly allowing an employee to be harassed on the basis of her sex and gender identity, the civil rights agency said Thursday.
Pennsylvania’s Kutztown University violated disability discrimination law when it repeatedly denied a business professor’s requests to teach remotely as an accommodation for an eye condition that left her at greater risk from the Covid-19 virus, a federal judge ruled.
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A $4,000,000 payment from the city of Newark, NJ resolving the collective FLSA claims of two classes of police academy attendees got preliminary approval from a federal magistrate judge.
A former
Boeing will have to defend against a former worker’s age discrimination claim after a federal judge refused to dismiss it, consistent with a magistrate’s recommendation.
Two related social service companies must pay $112,000 plus interest to a pair of illegally fired workers after a federal appeals court upheld a National Labor Relations Board order to do so.
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 Delaware federal judge plans to enhance his transparency-boosting measures targeting litigation financing, months after he cracked down on companies running afoul of his current standard.
Roughly 50 companies accused of violating a New Jersey law enforcement privacy statute—including the likes of
Jon Mize has been appointed managing partner of Womble Bond Dickinson’s Raleigh and Research Triangle Park, N.C., offices, effective April 1, the firm said Thursday.
Jeewon Serrato and Shruti Bhutani Arora have joined Pillsbury as partners in the San Francisco office, the firm said Thursday.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is protected from a potential malpractice suit brought by a formerly bankrupt luxury hotel owner thanks to liability releases in the hotel’s bankruptcy plan, an appellate court said.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit plans to hold oral argument at Catholic University’s law school, reviving its once regular practice to visit local law schools for the first time since before the pandemic.
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 federal court denied the District of Columbia’s motion to dismiss the race discrimination claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1983 of an Afro-Latino police officer fired for alleging cheating on a sergeant’s promotional exam, finding that he sufficiently pled municipal liability. Garcia v. District of Columbia, 2024 BL 84919, D.D.C., 22-1487 (CKK), 3/14/24
A Florida federal district court granted summary judgment to CSX Transportation, Inc. on a race discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law of a Black crew operations supervisor who alleged that she wasn’t reinstated upon her return from medical leave. Wilson v. CSX Transp., Inc., 2024 BL 87406, M.D. Fla., 3:21-cv-1212-TJC-PDB, 3/15/24
A Florida federal district court denied summary judgment to United Parcel Serv., Inc. on a retaliation claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and state law of a Black package car driver who alleged that he was terminated after filing race discrimination grievances. McKnight v. UPS, 2024 BL 87403, M.D. Fla., 6:22-cv-622-PGB-RMN, 3/15/24
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