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Volkswagen Tennessee Plant Unionizes in Landmark Win for UAW

Volkswagen AG employees at a Tennessee factory have voted to join the United Auto Workers, a landmark victory for union organizing in the long-hostile US South.

Supreme Court to Weigh Handling of Cases Sent to Arbitration

The US Supreme Court is set to consider whether federal judges must dismiss employment cases subject to mandatory arbitration or whether they should instead pause them pending the outcome of private dispute resolution proceedings.

Supreme Court’s New Test for Bias Claims Still Needs Hashing Out

The US Supreme Court’s new standard for the harm a worker must show to challenge allegedly discriminatory job transfers contains enough ambiguities to spark further debate over what’s necessary to bring a viable bias claim, lawyers and law professors said.

Attacks on Corporate DEI Intensify With Boeing Supplier Probe

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent request for Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.’s diversity, equity, and inclusion documents after serious defects were found in airplane parts it manufactured for Boeing Co. nods to a newer strategy to challenge corporate DEI policies.

Child Labor Violators’ Profits in Labor Solicitor’s Crosshairs

The US Labor Department is pursuing some of the toughest remedies for child labor violations, such as company profits, an escalation the agency’s top lawyer says is needed to end an alarming trend of minors working in dangerous conditions.

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Nike Says Job Cuts at Oregon Headquarters to Total More Than 700

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FTX Investors Settle With Bankman-Fried to Pursue Promoters (1)

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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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Case: Disabilities Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (W.D.N.C.)

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC is denied summary judgment in part on a senior sales securities manager with colon/bladder paralysis’ failure to accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as genuine issues of fact remain, a North Carolina federal court ruled. Billesdon v. Wells Fargo Sec., LLC, 2024 BL 130603, W.D.N.C., 3:23-CV-00160-FDW-SCR, 4/16/24

Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (S.D. Tex.)

A Texas federal district court partially denied summary judgment against NES Global Talent US Inc.
on the claims of a class of contract employees claiming they weren’t properly paid overtime for all hours worked in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Richardson v. NES Glob., LLC, 2024 BL 131595, S.D. Tex., H-20-223, 4/17/24

Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (D.D.C.)

A District of Columbia federal district court granted summary judgment to Howard University Hospital on a race discrimination claim of a Black nurse who alleged that he was terminated due to his race. Onyebuchi v. Howard Univ. Hosp., 2024 BL 132750, D.D.C., 1:22-cv-03089 (TNM), 4/18/24