Beer Promotion Models’ $500K Class Wage Deal Denied Early Nod
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.
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 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.
A Texas rubber manufacturer will try to convince a federal appeals court that the National Labor Relations Board steamrolled over the company’s due process rights in the course of changing its framework for assessing offensive employee misconduct.
Farmworkers on temporary visas would get new protections aimed at bolstering labor organizing efforts under newly finalized Labor Department regulations.
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 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.
A Louisiana man lost an appeal seeking to undo his fraud convictions after Fifth Circuit said there was no problem with the district court’s decision to allow him to represent himself at trial.
The Texas Supreme Court said two out-of-state attorneys are permitted to defend age discrimination claims against
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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 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
A Texas federal district court denied summary judgment on Fair Labor Standards Act claims of a security guard for Recon Security Corporation who gave firearms trainings, as genuine issues of fact exist concerning if he qualified for individual or enterprise FLSA coverage. Preciado v. Recon Sec. Corp., 2024 BL 132949, W.D. Tex., EP-23-CV-00052-RFC, 4/11/24
A Washington state court of appeals reversed the dismissal of a gender discrimination claim under the Washington Law Against Discrimination of a female acting assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine whose 12-month appointment wasn’t renewed. Litvack v. Univ. of Wash., 2024 BL 136620, Wash. Ct. App., Div. 1, 84592-6-I, 4/22/24
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