The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court that it was withdrawing a suit seeking records on Nike's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and other corporate practices, saying the sports apparel giant has given the agency what it wants.
A year after the California Supreme Court upheld a state law provision regarding the payment of arbitration fees, employers no longer have to fear that inadvertently late payments will cause wage claims to return to court, but they could have to show that delayed payments were not willful or grossly negligent.
The D.C. Circuit won't rethink its decision that a Vermont software company illegally fired an employee for creating a spreadsheet for coworkers to share their salaries, according to a Wednesday order, rejecting claims that the circuit court wrongly rejected its challenge to ordered remedies in the case.