Attorneys and other employees of Massachusetts' public defender agency should have the opportunity to decide whether to form a union, voters said Tuesday in approving a ballot measure authorizing a change to state law.

New litigation brought by unions and civil rights groups seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from threatening election workers whipsawed through the Ninth Circuit at lightning speed Tuesday, with a split en banc...(read more)

Two Teamsters locals on Tuesday urged the National Labor Relations Board to toss a complaint accusing them of unlawfully attempting to enforce an arbitration award, saying the case depends on conduct that falls well outsid...(read more)

A maritime transport company and its subsidiary asked the Eleventh Circuit to set aside two National Labor Relations Board decisions ordering the companies to bargain with a union, saying the court should take a fresh look...(read more)

Chicago urged an Illinois federal judge to limit damages in a long-running overtime lawsuit, arguing that a payroll mistake that led to some officers being underpaid was unintentional, while the officers said the city's wa...(read more)

A pair of free-market think tanks asked the Republican-majority National Labor Relations Board to make it harder for workplaces to unionize, telling the board that unions' wins in representation elections should count only...(read more)

A National Labor Relations Board judge found a Utah cannabis pharmacy violated federal labor law by firing three workers who backed a failed union campaign but declined to order the shop to recognize their union, finding i...(read more)

All but one of the Fourth Circuit's judges voted to deny the federal government's request for an en banc rehearing of a panel's split decision that allowed CIA officers to appeal terminations that were allegedly due to the...(read more)

A group of transgender servicemembers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to review the Trump administration's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military for now, saying the government's current appeal...(read more)

A Chinese employee asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his suit claiming he was wrongly denied a promotion that went to a younger, white worker, suggesting the justices use the dispute to overturn a lon...(read more)

A Michigan federal judge has ordered a former William Beaumont Hospital employee to honor a settlement resolving her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, rejecting her attempts to narrow the agreement to exclude potential med...(read more)

A former associate director sued by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary for allegedly misappropriating confidential information hit back with her own complaint, alleging the company's lawsuit is retaliation for reporting discri...(read more)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won't say how it complied with its chief judge's order for the agency to stop processing class actions by federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees cl...(read more)

The First Circuit refused to reinstate a lawsuit from a data architect who said a health benefits company fired her because she's a woman, saying she hadn't alleged that colleagues responsible for "stray" sexist comments p...(read more)

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general d...(read more)

A former food preparer at a Taco Bell location in Denver International Airport sued the restaurant's operator in Colorado state court, alleging the company failed to pay hourly employees for time spent undergoing security ...(read more)

Hourly Apple workers have asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their claims that the tech giant underpaid them for overtime by excluding the value of company stock they received, arguing that a lower court wrongly allowed App...(read more)

New York City has cited a revised Ninth Circuit ruling backing Seattle's gig worker protections in its fight to defend rules requiring DoorDash and Uber to offer customers the option to tip at checkout, according to a cour...(read more)

A former JPMorgan Chase employee must arbitrate her wage-and-hour and pregnancy discrimination claims, a California federal judge ruled, rejecting her arguments that the bank's arbitration agreement was unfair and one-sided.

A Texas federal judge has declined to approve a proposed wage settlement between a steakhouse known for its 72-ounce steak challenge and its servers and bartenders, saying the additional payment for the worker who brought ...(read more)

A former managing director at Charlotte-based PNC Bank has settled her sex-based discrimination suit against the financial services provider, according to a mediator's report.