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.
A former RBC Capital Markets branch manager failed to provide sufficient and timely evidence that the investment bank racially discriminated against him, engaged in retaliatory firing, or willfully denied him medical benefits, a federal judge said.
An Ohio medical services provider must face the lawsuit of former employee who says he was wrongfully terminated after internally reporting the company’s suspected tax fraud, a federal court said.
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
US Bureau of Labor Statistics issues corrected quarterly and annual productivity figures, along with hours worked figures, for 2019-2023.
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.
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 federal law expanding background checks for 18-to-20-year-olds who buy firearms is likely constitutional, the Fifth Circuit said Friday, affirming a lower court decision declining to preliminarily enjoin the statute.
<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1c76-d583-afbf-defe4e4a0000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Erich Andersen, the US-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., is stepping down from that role, the social media app said.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP said it doesn’t have a conflict of interest that would prevent it from representing genetic testing company Invitae Corp. in the company’s Chapter 11 case—pushing back against objections from the US Trustee and creditors.
The opening week of
The Utah State Bar defeated a member’s lawsuit alleging the USB unconstitutionally used mandatory member fees to fund political activities irrelevant to the legal profession.
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?
An Ohio federal district court denied Northern Ohio Medical Specialists’ motion to dismiss the claims of a financial controller alleging his discharge was in retaliation for whistleblowing about NOMS’s potentially fraudulent tax reporting practices in violation of the Taxpayer First Act. Biggins v. N. Ohio Med. Specialists, LLC, 2024 BL 141720, N.D. Ohio, 3:23-cv-01917-JGC, 4/25/24
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
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