Expert Analysis

3 Defense Strategies For Sporadically Prosecuted Conduct

Not to be confused with selective prosecutions, sporadic prosecutions — charging someone for conduct many others d... (more story)

Insuring Equality: 3 Tips To Preserve Coverage For DEI Claims

Directors and officers and employment practices liability are key coverages for policyholders to review as potenti... (more story)

6 Laws For Calif. Employers To Know In 2026

California's legislative changes for 2026 impose sweeping new obligations on employers, including by expanding pay... (more story)

Labor More

DC Circ. Grants En Banc Hearing On CFPB Layoff Plan

Additional D.C. Circuit judges will get to weigh in on the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through mass layoffs, after the appeals court granted the agency's em... (more story)

Shutdown Deal Bars Federal Firings Until Feb., Judge Says

A California federal judge said Wednesday she'll grant a preliminary injunction barring layoffs of federal workers from several agencies before Jan. 30, saying legislation that ended the government shutdown pr... (more story)

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5th Circ. Judges Knock Biden NLRB For 'Gamesmanship'

Four dissenting Fifth Circuit judges slammed the National Labor Relations Board's "political gamesmanship" Wednesday as the court declined to rethink a panel's decision to enforce a Biden-era board ruling that... (more story)

Union, Voter Group Seek To Join DOJ Election Records Case

A union local, an affiliate and a Black voters advocacy group urged a federal court Tuesday to let them intervene in a U.S. Department of Justice suit seeking election records from Fulton County, Georgia, argu... (more story)

Unions Sue To Block VA's Labor Contract Cancellations

A coalition of labor organizations urged a Rhode Island federal court Wednesday to stop the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from canceling collective bargaining agreements covering 2,800 federal workers, a... (more story)

Bus Co. Fights Order To Rehire Driver Who Hit Pedestrian

Bussing contractor Transdev urged a Virginia federal judge to vacate a labor arbitrator's order to rehire a driver fired for striking a pedestrian, arguing the arbitrator made up the high threshold for firing ... (more story)

Texas Healthcare Co. Asks Court To Shred 4 SEIU Arb. Awards

A D.C. federal judge should vacate four of the Service Employees International Union's wins in arbitration proceedings against Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Dallas-based company argued, claiming the arbitrator l... (more story)

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NY Jets Claim Ex-VP Plotted To Tarnish Team President

A former New York Jets vice president of finance helped engineer an anonymous email that falsely accused the team president of inappropriate conduct, the team alleged in its response and counterclaim to her di... (more story)

JPMorgan Ex-Advisers Sue Over Alleged Race And Sex Bias

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its broker-dealer unit are facing claims they discriminated against two Black women who had worked for the companies as financial advisers, giving them unfavorable branch assignments a... (more story)

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DHL Inks $640K Deal To End EEOC Sex Harassment Suit

DHL has agreed to pay $640,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the shipping logistics giant failed to correct rampant sexual harassment at a Memphis, Tennessee, facility.

Former Analyst For Colo. County Alleges 'Systematic' Bias

A Colorado county discriminated against one of its senior analysts after she received national recognition for her work and subjected her to escalating retaliatory conduct that culminated in her termination, s... (more story)

UMich Says Allowing Protest Suit Would 'Eviscerate' Immunity

An attorney representing the University of Michigan told a federal judge Wednesday that permitting a complaint from its former staffers, who alleged they were fired without due process for participating in pro... (more story)

Ill. Judge Grants Transit Co.'s Bid To Arbitrate GIPA Claims

An Illinois federal judge sent to arbitration a proposed class action claiming those applying to work for a transit services provider were required to divulge family medical history during a preemployment phys... (more story)

Braidwood Asks For Judgment In ACA Preventive Care Fight

Christian-owned, for-profit management company Braidwood Management Inc. asked a Texas federal judge Tuesday to end its challenge to an Affordable Care Act provision that requires coverage of lung cancer scree... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Anheuser-Busch Shouldn't Dismantle OT Suit, 4th Circ. Told

Anheuser-Busch shouldn't be able to dismantle a class and a collective in a wage suit because the workers claiming unpaid off-the-clock work showed a Virginia federal court that they performed similar work at ... (more story)

Haitian Migrants Accuse Meatpacking Giant JBS Of Race Bias

Three Haitian nationals have accused meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co. of race-based discrimination in Colorado federal court, alleging that it intentionally subjected them to comparatively more dangerous wor... (more story)

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6th Circ. Revives NJ Drivers' Wage Action Against Hub Group

Two drivers alleging that logistics company Hub Group misclassified them as independent contractors have no connection to Tennessee, the Sixth Circuit ruled, departing from a Tennessee federal court's decision... (more story)

Consulting Co., Ex-Worker Seek OK Of Revised $295K OT Deal

A consulting company and a former worker who lodged a proposed collective action took a second crack at persuading a Washington federal judge to sign off a $295,000 settlement, saying they now have shown a bon... (more story)

Kasowitz Hid Plummeting Profits From Ex-Partner, Suit Says

A former Kasowitz LLP partner has accused the firm and its founder, renowned litigator Marc Kasowitz, of misrepresenting its finances and failing to pay him the millions he is owed in a lawsuit in New York sta... (more story)

Merck Sued Over Time Rounding, OT Averaging At NC Plant

A Merck manufacturing facility in North Carolina rounded workers' time to short them on pay, averaged out overtime across two weeks and fired an operator technician because of his sleep apnea, the worker told ... (more story)

Willkie Adds Another Kirkland Restructuring Pro In New York

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added another restructuring attorney from Kirkland & Ellis LLP after recently welcoming a Kirkland attorney as chair of its restructuring group.