Expert Analysis

9th Circ. Wage Ruling Shows Arbitration Pacts Are Still Useful

After years of uncertainty for California employers, the Ninth Circuit’s recent Cocom v. ABM Aviation decision sig... (more story)

NLRB Ruling Highlights Risk From Employee Handbook Test

A National Labor Relations Board judge's recent decision to strike down a workplace rule that only theoretically i... (more story)

ERC Filing Deadlines Raise Tax Adviser Liability Risk

To minimize their risk, employee retention credit providers and tax advisers should understand that agreements to ... (more story)

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NLRB Clears Equipment Co. In Employee Firing Suit

The National Labor Relations Board upheld an agency judge's decision finding that an Illinois construction equipment company lawfully fired a field service technician one day before his probationary period end... (more story)

Nevada Waste Co. Snubbed Teamsters, NLRB Judge Says

A Nevada waste-disposal service violated federal labor law by snubbing the union that its drivers brought in two years ago in various ways, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company owed... (more story)

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Bus Co. Worker Can't Join Bargaining Unit, NLRB Official Says

A National Labor Relations Board official on Friday rejected a Teamsters local's bid to add a student discipline coordinator to an existing bargaining unit at an Ohio student transportation company, ruling tha... (more story)

NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Hears Ford Bid To Arbitrate Firing Case

This week the Second Circuit will consider the United Auto Workers' challenge to a trial court decision that declined to enforce an arbitration award requiring Ford to rehire a pipefitter it fired just days af... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: $1M Wayfair Wage Deal Up For Approval

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against furniture retailer Wayfair. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment ... (more story)

Pilots Look To Dodge Airline's Sanctions Bid Over Group Chat

A group of pilots is doing its best to fulfill Hawaiian Airlines' discovery request in a legal dispute over COVID-19 vaccine mandate exemptions, the pilots told a Hawaii federal judge, asking him not to sancti... (more story)

NLRB Official Says Talks Ended Contract Bar At Security Co.

A National Labor Relations Board official has set a union representation election for workers at a security contractor, saying an existing labor contract with a competing union did not block the vote because n... (more story)

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Airline Caterer Let Harassment Go Unchecked, EEOC Says

A global airline catering company failed to take action after a female employee complained that her male mentor regularly made sexual comments about her body, according to a suit filed Friday by the U.S. Equal... (more story)

Calif. County Judges Recuse From Bias Suit Against DA's Office

The entire bench of a county court recused itself from a lawsuit alleging the San Francisco District Attorney's Office didn't take appropriate action when a Black employee reported a colleague's use of a racia... (more story)

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Judge Reduces Sealy Worker's 'Excessive' Harassment Win

A Washington federal judge reduced a $5 million verdict awarded to a worker who claimed mattress company Sealy Inc. subjected her to sexual harassment, ruling she is owed only $1.25 million in damages after ca... (more story)

Ex-Sergeant Says Prosecutors Charged Him In Retaliation

A former Colorado sheriff's sergeant has told a federal court the district attorney and her investigator who charged him with failing to report suspected child abuse lacked probable cause and the prosecution w... (more story)

Management Consulting Co. Settles Pregnancy Bias Suit

Boston Consulting Group has struck a deal to end a pregnancy bias suit from a former payroll worker who alleged a boss said she "conned" the company by taking parental leave shortly after joining and later fired her.

DOJ Says Race Bias Tainted GW Med School Admissions

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services ran afoul of federal law and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision by giving Black and Hispanic applicants an advantage over white and Asi... (more story)

Judge Wary Of EEOC's Challenge To Yale Hospital Age Testing

A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday said oral arguments forced her to rethink whether to require a trial in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's challenge to age-based employee cognition test... (more story)

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Translation Co. Blocked From Early Appeal Of Wage Ruling

A California federal court denied a translation services company's attempt to send a narrow wage statement timing question to the Ninth Circuit before trial, finding the appeal would not meaningfully advance the litigation.

UPS Workers Sue For Security Screening Time Pay

United Parcel Service Inc. required employees to go through security screenings before work, wouldn't let them clock in until afterward and forced them through another unpaid check before they could leave, two... (more story)

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Bio Co. Tells 9th Circ. Private FLSA Deals Are Valid

A biotechnology company urged the Ninth Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a former employee's overtime claims, arguing that nothing in the text of the Fair Labor Standards Act or U.S. Supreme Court precedent ... (more story)

Ex-Victoria's Secret Worker's Wage Case Sent To Arbitration

A California federal judge has ruled that Victoria's Secret can arbitrate a former employee's proposed wage-and-hour class action, finding the parties' arbitration agreement, signed by the plaintiff, has a cla... (more story)

DOL Scraps 1980s Farmworker Protection Coordination Rule

The U.S. Department of Labor is repealing longtime regulations that required federal agencies to coordinate protections for migrant and seasonal workers, saying they are obsolete and have not been used for decades.

Mortgage Lender Faces Nationwide Underwriter OT Collective

A Georgia federal judge conditionally certified a nationwide collective of mortgage underwriters claiming they were wrongly classified as exempt from overtime, finding their evidence sufficiently showed they p... (more story)

Aviation Co. Workers Say $4M Deal Threatens Wage Claims

A class of California aviation ground workers asked a federal court to lift a stay in their wage and hour case, alleging their employer concealed a state court settlement that purports to release a portion of ... (more story)