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EEOC Finalizes 4-Year Plan, Fed Sector Revamp Moves Ahead

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas said Wednesday that the agency's new four-year strategic plan has secured final approval, after the three sitting commissioners voted along party lines to publish a separate proposal to overhaul the process for handling bias complaints from federal workers. 

UAW's John Deere Extension Offer Veto A Sign Of Uncertainty

The United Auto Workers has rejected John Deere's offer of a two-year extension to their labor contract, citing concerns about job security protections in an action experts said illustrates how unions and employers are navigating economic uncertainty. 

EEOC Plan To End Data Surveys Draws About 3K Comments

The monthlong window for public input on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's plan to scrap its yearly collection of employers' EEO-1 workplace demographic data closed Monday, with nearly 3,000 comments flooding the docket that revealed sharp differences of opinion over the information's continued utility and constitutionality. Here, Law360 looks at four themes from the feedback.

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Navigating Rising AI Use In Pro Se Employment Suits

Ashley Prickett Cuttino

As federal pro se employment filings climb, largely due to increased use of artificial intelligence, defense attor... (more story)

Trending Legal Implications Of Employee Influencer Programs

Keri Bruce and Mark Goldstein

Employee-generated content is rapidly becoming a popular marketing strategy, as illustrated by Starbucks' new TikT... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Shifting Workplace Violence Responses

Dawn Solowey, Sam Schwartz-Fenwick and Adam Young

Amid recent threats of violence against artificial intelligence company executives and Jewish-owned businesses, em... (more story)

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Nurse's Staffing Complaints Weren't Protected, Hospital Says

A South Carolina hospital urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss a complaint alleging that it unlawfully fired a clinical nurse coordinator for complaining about short staffing, arguing that her ... (more story)

Del. Police Captains' OT Exemption Fight Heads To Trial

A Delaware federal court has declined to rule before trial on whether Wilmington police captains are exempt from overtime pay, finding genuine factual disputes about whether their primary duty is frontline law... (more story)

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NLRB Refers Fire Co. Rep. For Investigation Over AI Use

The National Labor Relations Board referred the representative of a fire suppression company for investigation Tuesday after determining a document she filed in the company's dispute with two plumbers locals i... (more story)

Wash. Court Gives Final OK In Teamsters Data Breach Deal

A Washington state judge has approved a settlement in a class action filed against two Teamsters locals over a June 2025 data breach, ending claims that the affiliates failed to put adequate data security safe... (more story)

New NLRB Member Taps Former Acting GC As Chief Counsel

The longtime National Labor Relations Board official who recently served as acting general counsel for about a year will take up the role of chief counsel to the board's newest member.

Unions Sue Over OPM Performance, Suitability Rules

Four unions have filed a lawsuit in California federal court challenging two recent rules issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management that they allege reshape the disciplinary process and performance rev... (more story)

Union Asks DC Circ. To Enforce NY Meat Co. NLRB Order

The union representing six employees who were laid off by a New York meat distributor has asked the D.C. Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board order, saying the board correctly ordered the compan... (more story)

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Sunroom Co. To Pay $150K To Settle EEOC Harassment Suit

An Oklahoma sunroom builder will pay $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging its owner sexually harassed female employees and forced out a woman who complained, acco... (more story)

Arizona Atty Reprimanded For Series Of AI Errors

An Arizona federal judge has formally reprimanded a lawyer who admitted to filing four briefs that contained errors including false quotes and a faulty case summary generated with artificial intelligence amid ... (more story)

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Pillsbury Settles Ex-Recruiting Director's Pregnancy Bias Suit

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has settled a Black former director's suit claiming the law firm fired her weeks after she shared that she was pregnant and would need accommodations, according to a Tenness... (more story)

Colo. School District Says Ex-Coach's Bias Suit Lacking

A Colorado school district is urging a federal court to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit brought by a Black assistant basketball coach who claims he was forced to resign after raising concerns about racism in ... (more story)

Missouri Drops Bid To Block Minority Contracting Program

Missouri Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway has withdrawn her attempt to block Kansas City's contracting program for minority- and women-owned businesses after the city passed an ordinance repealing the program.

11th Circ. Won't Upend Ex-Deputy's $250K Retaliation Suit Win

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a jury's $250,000 award to a former sheriff's deputy who claimed he was fired for filing a bias charge against a Florida county sheriff's office, ruling statements in the... (more story)

Greenberg Traurig Adds Morgan Lewis Employment Attorney

A veteran Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP employment attorney in Miami has moved her practice to Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Candy Factory Worker Says Preshift Time Wasn't Paid

A Chicago candy manufacturer required hundreds of hourly workers to spend 15 to 20 minutes changing into uniforms, boots and hair nets before clocking in, resulting in unpaid overtime hours, a warehouse forkli... (more story)

Health Exec Says CFO, Atty Knew Wage Claim Was Wrong

A former corporate officer has sued his ex-colleague and the colleague's attorney in Connecticut state court, alleging they named him as a personal defendant in a federal wage lawsuit without any factual basis... (more story)

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Construction Groups, DOL Revive Davis-Bacon Rule Fight

Construction groups and the U.S. Department of Labor have asked a Texas federal court to rule on dueling early win bids in a challenge to 2023 Davis-Bacon Act regulations, saying a series of stays that paused ... (more story)

BofA Looks To Crush Mortgage Officers' Collective In OT Suit

Bank of America told a North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday that the individualized nature of a group of mortgage loan officers' jobs makes collective certification impossible in their overtime suit, saying... (more story)

Potato Processor Fights Collective Bid In Break, OT Suit

A Washington potato processor urged a federal judge to reject a former forklift driver's bid to conditionally certify a statewide collective of hourly workers who say they were denied pay for automatically ded... (more story)

Mass. Eatery Workers Sue Chain Over Tip, Wage Violations

A former server and bartender at a Massachusetts restaurant chain is accusing the company in a state court suit of improperly paying tipped workers the subminimum service rate for nontipped side work, sending ... (more story)

Health System Must Face Nurse's Meal Break Wage Suit

A Michigan federal court has refused to dismiss a proposed collective action brought by a nurse who alleged that Trinity Health Corp. failed to pay patient care workers for meal breaks regularly interrupted by... (more story)