A New York federal court's finding that the state wage and hour law incorporates federal exceptions to pay for pre-shift time deviated from the decisions of a handful of state high courts and lays a path for Empire State justices to weigh in, attorneys said.
A turbomachinery manufacturer must face a transgender employee's lawsuit alleging the company unlawfully refused to cover her gender-affirming treatments under its health plan, a New Hampshire federal judge ruled Monday, saying a jury should decide whether the denial amounted to sex bias.
The Ninth Circuit reinstated Monday a white worker's claims that the City of Seattle subjected him to harassment by pushing race bias trainings that caused his colleagues to villainize white people, ruling that negative comments he received about his race were enough to keep the case in court.