Expert Analysis

10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting

This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologi... (more story)

Axed ALJ Removal Protections Mark Big Shift For NLRB

A D.C. federal court's recent decision in VHS Acquisition Subsidiary No. 7 v. National Labor Relations Board remov... (more story)

Undoing An American Ideal Of Fairness

President Donald Trump’s orders attacking birthright citizenship, civil rights education, and diversity, equity an... (more story)

Labor More

Unions Lose Bid To Block Trump Admin Efforts To Gut USAID

A Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday refused to grant a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from placing U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave, halting funding an... (more story)

Teamsters Unit Fights Amazon's New Bid To Block NLRB Case

Amazon doesn't deserve an injunction blocking a National Labor Relations Board hearing any more now than it did two weeks ago, a Teamsters unit argued, asking a California judge to toss the company's renewed b... (more story)

President Donald Trump and National Labor Relations Board Chairman Marvin Kaplan are standing by former board member Gwynne Wilcox's firing, saying her removal did not go against U.S. Supreme Court precedent. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump, NLRB Chairman Defend Wilcox's Removal As Lawful

President Donald Trump told a D.C. federal judge Friday that former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox should not be reinstated, laying out his arguments for why a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Cou... (more story)

NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Hears Harassment Retaliation Case

This week, the Second Circuit will consider reviving a New York school district employee's lawsuit claiming she was retaliated against after she complained that an administrator at her school sexually harassed... (more story)

GOP Lawmakers Press DOJ On Union Pension Overpayments

Thirty union pension plans haven't reported whether they've returned the overpayments they received from a federal bailout, two leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and the Work... (more story)

Magistrate Judge Supports Deal Ending NLRB Contempt Spat

A federal magistrate judge recommended approval for a settlement between the National Labor Relations Board and a radio station operator to resolve contempt proceedings in the Second Circuit, with the company ... (more story)

Justices Knock Ala. For Immunizing State Officials

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled a group of Alabama unemployment applicants can pursue allegations that delays in the state's benefits review process violated their federal civil rights, holding a state ... (more story)

Discrimination More

Trump Blocked From Implementing Anti-DEI Orders, For Now

A Maryland federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from implementing the bulk of his executive orders aiming to slash diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the public and priv... (more story)

DOJ Hits Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban With Complaint

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a misconduct complaint against the D.C. federal judge overseeing litigation challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ostensibly banning transgender tr... (more story)

The Fourth Circuit found that ND Fairmont was in the clear to fire a worker because he admitted he lied about a back injury during a preemployment physical. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
4th Circ. Says Mill Worker's Dishonesty Dooms ADA Suit

The Fourth Circuit refused Friday to revive a suit from a worker who said a paper product company illegally fired him over a disability, ruling that bias wasn't at play because he admitted to lying about a pre... (more story)

Up Next At High Court: Straight Discrimination & Trial Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to debate whether majority-group plaintiffs should be held to higher evidentiary standards when bringing workplace discrimination claims and whether priso... (more story)

11th Circ. Backs Ga. Military College In Race Bias Appeal

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed Georgia Military College's early win in a race bias suit brought by a laid off former human resources professional, finding that the college "advanced legitimate, nondis... (more story)

Diddy Atty Says No Way He Can Continue As Defense Counsel

A defense attorney representing Sean "Diddy" Combs' in his criminal sex-trafficking case on Friday asked a Manhattan federal judge to allow him to quit, saying in a carefully worded court filing that "under no... (more story)

City Housing Agency Supervisor To Face Some Claims In Bias Suit

A North Carolina federal judge on Friday trimmed portions of a workplace retaliation and discrimination suit by a former Charlotte public housing authority coordinator, concluding that most of her punitive dam... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Fla. Worker's Wage Suit Against Dillard's Sent To Arbitration

A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered Dillard's and a former employee to resolve claims that the company shorted workers on minimum and overtime wages out of court after granting an unopposed motion to com... (more story)

Wash. Health System Says Nurse Must Arbitrate Wage Claims

A Washington-based healthcare system facing a proposed class and collective wage action in Seattle federal court contends the plaintiff nurse agreed to arbitrate any claims with the third-party staffing agenci... (more story)

NJ Judge Says AutoLender Can't Escape Ex-Worker's OT Suit

Used-vehicle dealership company AutoLender Liquidation Center and its subsidiaries cannot be dismissed from a fired employee's wrongful termination and overtime suit, a New Jersey federal judge has ruled.

UChicago Medical Center Can't Duck Wage Suit

An Illinois federal judge largely allowed a proposed class action brought by UChicago Medical Center workers seeking to recover unpaid wages for the time spent undergoing mandatory, pre-shift COVID-19 screenin... (more story)

Jackson Lewis Adds Hopkins Carley Employment Pro In Calif.

Labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is bringing in a Hopkins Carley employment law veteran as a principal in its Silicon Valley office.

Kroger Workers' $21M Pay System Outage Deal Gets First Nod

An Ohio federal judge preliminarily approved a $21 million deal between The Kroger Co. and a proposed class of around 47,000 workers who accused it of missing paychecks and making inaccurate deductions to thei... (more story)

Worker Says Wilson Sports Co. Firing Tied To Paternity Leave

A former Wilson Sporting Goods Co. employee has filed a Minnesota federal lawsuit accusing the company of firing him for taking parental leave in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act.