Roughly 4 million workers will take home more money when they work more than 40 hours a week under a new US Labor Department rule that expands overtime pay eligibility under federal law.
Several US Supreme Court justices expressed support for
A California “right to disconnect” proposal aims to protect workers from the growing expectation that they’re always available to their bosses, spurring opposition from business groups that say it would create a compliance mess especially for management of salaried employees.
The US Labor Department has released a closely watched rule that will expand strict fiduciary standards of conduct to cover more retirement plan advisers, and has already drawn ire from Wall Street.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Gordon Hartogensis will leave his leadership role once his five-year term expires at the end of April, according to a statement from the agency.
A former lieutenant at a Texas county jail has reached a settlement with the county to resolve allegations that her right to free speech was violated after she was terminated for her pre-approved attendance at the Jan. 6 rally for then-President Donald Trump.
Plans continue on a long-running effort to protect health-care workers from airborne infectious illnesses, with OSHA officials saying Wednesday that an eventual proposed rule would focus on facilities where staffers are “routinely exposed” to diseases like tuberculosis and Covid-19.
D’Youville University and a former employee, who alleges the school wrongfully terminated her part-time role as its archivist because she is a nun, have reached a settlement in principle of her religious discrimination suit, according to a joint status report.
A real estate operating company and asset management firm faces a discrimination lawsuit after allegedly firing a Black employee because of his race, according to the EEOC Wednesday.
The White House has completed its review of a final rule governing who can use association health plans, which have been touted by small businesses and the self-employed as a cheaper alternative to other employer-sponsored plans.
A former Ascension Providence Hospital front desk clerk can pursue federal disability, pregnancy, and sex discrimination claims against the health care provider, but she failed to sufficiently allege violations of state civil rights laws, a federal judge said.
Derek Smith Law Group PLLC was properly sanctioned with an order to pay an opposing party’s $81,439 in attorneys’ fees, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
Holland Acquisitions Inc.'s former CEO is headed to trial in a US Department of Labor lawsuit accusing the executive of misclassifying employees to avoid properly compensating them, a federal court said.
MLB was sued Wednesday by a former minor league umpire who says he was fired because he complained about a female umpire’s harassment based on his gender and sexual orientation.
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.
Lawyers are seeking $217 million in fees for their work crafting a settlement this month in a class action lawsuit alleging Alphabet Inc.'s Google improperly retained users’ web data while they used a private browsing setting.
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Derek Smith Law Group PLLC was properly sanctioned with an order to pay an opposing party’s $81,439 in attorneys’ fees, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
General Motors Co.'s legal chief, Craig Glidden, earned $11.3 million in 2023, according to a GM proxy statement released by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Morris Nichols Arsht Tunnell, a boutique firm based in Wilmington, Delaware, is boosting salaries for first-year associates to $210,000 as it seeks to better compete for talent.
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 District of Columbia federal district court granted the NLRB’s motion to dismiss a separation of powers challenge to legal restrictions protecting board members from removal by the president for anything other that “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office” brought by two employees at New York Starbucks stores that successfully unionized. Cortes v. NLRB, 2024 BL 122420, D.D.C., 23-2954 (JEB), 4/10/24
A California federal court denied preliminary approval of a wage & hour case settlement between Nestle Purina PetCare Company and a class of warehouse employees, on claims alleging failure to pay all due wages or to provide adequate meal breaks as required under the FLSA and state law. Salinas v. Nestlé Purina Petcare Co., 2024 BL 134950, E.D. Cal., 1:21-cv-01140 JLT CDB, 4/19/24
A Tennessee federal court granted summary judgment to Delek US Holdings & Subsidiaries on the claim of a senior director who was over 40 years old alleging that he was laid off because of his age and replaced by someone younger in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Mazza v. Delek United States Holdings, 2024 BL 135419, M.D. Tenn., 3:23-cv-00073, 4/19/24
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