AI Executive Order Spurs New Look at Exchange Visa Skills List
The State Department is in the midst of overhauling a list of skills and occupations requiring foreign students and scholars on J-1 exchange visitor visas to return to their home countries after completing their programs before they can pursue careers in the US.
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.
Biden Scrutiny of Labor Competition Extends to Bank Noncompetes
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s updated bank merger guidelines for the first time seek to ban noncompete clauses in employment contracts when banks are eyeing deals, extending the Biden administration’s focus on labor market competition.
Transgender Lieutenant’s Pronoun Bias Case Revived by 11th Cir.
A transgender male corrections officer demonstrated that he suffered intentional and repeated misgendering by supervisors and co-workers at the Georgia Department of Corrections, a federal appeals court found.
New Rule Lets Union Reps Accompany Workplace Safety Inspectors
Non-employees will be allowed to accompany and advise OSHA officials during workplace safety and health inspections under a new final rule from the agency taking effect May 31.
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New Rule Lets Union Reps Accompany Workplace Safety Inspectors
Non-employees will be allowed to accompany and advise OSHA officials during workplace safety and health inspections under a new final rule from the agency taking effect May 31.
Biden Scrutiny of Labor Competition Extends to Bank Noncompetes
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s updated bank merger guidelines for the first time seek to ban noncompete clauses in employment contracts when banks are eyeing deals, extending the Biden administration’s focus on labor market competition.
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.
Hayley Paige Denied Redo Over Access to Instagram Account
Designer Hayley Paige Gutman lost 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.
Youngkin Vetoes $15 Minimum Wage, Farmworker Bills in Virginia
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.
EEOC Sues Illinois Hog Farm Over Bias Against Transgender Worker
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.
Professor Wins Some Covid-Based Bias Claims Over In-Person Rule
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.
Biden’s Manufacturing Wins Are Undercut by 39,000 Lost Jobs
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Police Academy Cadets’ $4 Million Overtime Deal Gets First Nod
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.
Explainer: Medical Exam Requirements and Aging Judges
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.
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Syngenta Pulls China IPO Application After Three-Year Wait (2)
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Boeing Heard. It Just Didn’t Listen: Sarah Green Carmichael
The strange thing about Boeing Co.’s crisis is that so many people saw it coming — and tried to stop it. The planemaker’s safety problems have been obvious since two 737 Max jets crashed in late 2018 and early 2019, killing 346 people. Boeing’s engineers were warning managers of potential quality problems as far back as 2001. But Boeing executives must not have listened and the 737 Max crashes apparently weren’t a sufficiently loud wake-up call.
Wake Up Call: Hogan Lovells Advises on $1.7 Billion Orioles Sale
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SBF’s Letters of Support Do Little to Sway Judge at Sentencing
JetBlue Winds Down Relationship With New CEO’s Former Law Firm
The longstanding association between Holland & Knight and
Biden Scrutiny of Labor Competition Extends to Bank Noncompetes
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s updated bank merger guidelines for the first time seek to ban noncompete clauses in employment contracts when banks are eyeing deals, extending the Biden administration’s focus on labor market competition.
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Punching In: Labor Board’s New Test for Work Rules Takes Shape
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Giving Elon Musk the RBG Award Is a Joke: Sarah G. Carmichael
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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View MoreCase: Discrimination/Disparate Treatment (D.D.C.)
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
Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (M.D. Fla.)
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
Case: Discrimination/Retaliation (M.D. Fla.)
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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