Workers at a Maryland
The Southern Poverty Law Center Inc. could strip confidential labor relations duties from executive assistants when those workers were added to an existing union as per a settlement deal, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.
Another case involving the legality of noncompete agreements will head before the National Labor Relations Board in Washington after an agency judge found one to comply with federal labor law.
A federal appellate panel offered diverging interpretations of US Supreme Court precedent Thursday, pressing government attorneys on how they should dictate a state challenge to federal removal protections and work authorization for half a million immigrants brought to the country as children.
Conservative US Supreme Court justices’ reliance on history and tradition to settle contentious constitutional questions has judges and lawyers saying the new method of analysis makes their own jobs harder.
Groups challenging the EPA’s proposed risk analysis for chemicals in the workplace asked a federal appeals court to set the rule aside while reviewing the merits of their cases.
An Ohio-based federal appeals court has tossed out claims that the University of Kentucky discriminated against a former employee when it denied a request for a religious accommodation from its Covid-19 vaccine-or-test policy.
Mixed-status immigrant families have filed an emergency motion to have a stay lifted on a parole program offering immigrant spouses employment authorization and a pathway to green cards.
The Small Business Administration must face trial on whether it created a hostile work environment for a worker who was hired temporarily during the Covid-19 pandemic because of her religion and national origin, a Michigan federal judge ruled.
Boeing plans to reduce the size of its total workforce by roughly 10%, according to a statement.
An Illinois assisted living facility’s residential contract requiring disputes to be resolved by arbitration is so one-sided that it’s unconscionable and therefore not legally enforceable, an appellate court ruled Friday.
Two people are dead and 35 are injured after a chemical release at a Houston area refinery owned by Mexico’s state oil company.
The last time voters were asked to let state court judges serve longer before mandatory retirement, it was in Texas and the verdict was a resounding no. This year, raising the age is a ballot question in New Hampshire.
Conservative US Supreme Court justices’ reliance on history and tradition to settle contentious constitutional questions has judges and lawyers saying the new method of analysis makes their own jobs harder.
A federal judge who has held the state of Texas in contempt of court three times for failing to fix the state’s foster care system was removed from the case by the Fifth Circuit Friday in a major win for Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
Out-of-state applicants will be able to take the California bar exam remotely and at test centers in other states, according to a proposal the state bar approved Friday.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s legal fee award of almost $13.8 million against an anti-abortion group that illegally recorded workers at the organization was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court.
Former bankruptcy judge David R. Jones’ longtime case manager and at least two other court staffers knew about his romantic relationship with a local attorney before it became public last year, according to a newly-released deposition.
The risks that artificial intelligence represents have come into sharper focus: disinformation, potential job loss, perhaps even an existential threat to humanity. Is government capable of putting guardrails around such a fast-moving technology?
A telecommunications company operating in Montana violated the NLRA when it refused to give the union representing a unit of its employees information it requested to determine whether the company was diverting work away from its members. CenturyTel of Montana, Inc., a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, Inc., f/k/a CenturyLink, Inc., 2024 BL 360574, N.L.R.B., 19–CA–283839, 10/10/24
A Pennsylvania federal court granted summary judgment to Autozone, Inc. on the claims of a sales manager with a heart condition that he was discharged due to his disability and because he applied for disability benefits, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and state law. Guyette v. Autozone, Inc., 2024 BL 343525, M.D. Pa., 1:22-cv-01472, 9/30/24
A New York federal district court granted summary judgment to Dunkirk City School District on the claims of an age-protected teacher that she faced discrimination and was discharged due to her age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Lockwood v. Dunkirk City Sch. Dist., 2024 BL 344041, W.D.N.Y., 21-CV-941-LJV, 9/30/24
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