Western Union Settles Worker’s Covid Vaccine Exemption Suit
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Judges on a federal appeals court panel in Chicago appeared receptive to religious employers’ arguments that green card policies are biased against them and harm their efforts to retain foreign workers.
An industrial chemicals company violated federal labor law when it interrogated a worker during a wage and hour lawsuit, the National Labor Relations Board held.
The US Federal Trade Commission is just days away from voting on the final version of its proposed ban on noncompete clauses in employment contracts.
Heat safety mandates aimed at protecting outdoor workers have become the target of Republican-majority legislatures seeking to preempt local ordinances as a means of promoting a consistent, statewide policy.
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The city of Newburgh, N.Y., defeated claims by five minority workers who accused it of job bias, but it will face a trial on a sixth worker’s sex discrimination claim.
A “modest” budget increase would help the US Labor Department boost its child labor law enforcement and workforce development programs, acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told skeptical House Republican appropriators.
The en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit won’t stop SpaceX’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board from being transferred to a federal court in California, after the court evenly split on whether to take up the case.
Rivian Automotive Inc. will cut an another 1% of its workforce, the second round of layoffs this year as the electric vehicle industry grapples with flagging consumer demand.
A Nashville restaurant and cocktail bar can force a former executive chef to arbitrate his discrimination claims, but it failed to convince a judge to sanction the worker’s lawyer for arguments he made against arbitration.
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There’s now at least one unemployed job seeker for every vacancy in five US states, a sign that the labor market is loosening in swaths of the country.
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 measure to prevent the SEC from implementing its March climate disclosure regulation cleared a House panel Wednesday along party lines.
A federal appellate court judge with a stake in Citigroup Inc. doesn’t need to recuse himself from the banking industry’s challenge to an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a federal judiciary oversight committee said.
Loeb & Loeb has added two more corporate and tax partners from Morrison Cohen in New York, bolstering the group of seven it poached from the same firm in March.
Mona Bhalla has joined Alston & Bird as a partner with the litigation and trial practice group and insurance litigation and regulation team in New York, the firm said Wednesday.
Kimberly E. Zirkle has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as a partner in the banking and financial services practice group in the Charlotte, N.C., office, the firm said Wednesday.
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was prodded by Senate Republicans about allegations of ethical misconduct while prosecuting a drug case.
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 California chemical manufacturing and recycling company unlawfully interrogated an employee concerning their union and other protected activity in violation of the NLRA. Chemtrade West US LLC, 2024 BL 129409, N.L.R.B., 32–CA–282594, 4/16/24
An Illinois federal district court denied DynaCom Management, LLC and its owners’ motion to dismiss a construction worker’s claims of being denied overtime wages because of misclassification as an independent contractor in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and state law. Nevarez v. Dynacom Mgmt., LLC, 2024 BL 124547, N.D. Ill., 23 CV 5248, 4/11/24
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed a district court’s denial of JNOV to the state of Iowa on an employee/supervisor’s Iowa Civil Rights Act hostile work environment claim based on her complaints about her fired boss. White v. State, 2024 BL 126196, Iowa, 21-1898, 4/12/24
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