3rd Circ. Backs American Airlines Firing Over Facebook Posts
The Third Circuit said Tuesday it won't revive a suit alleging American Airlines fired an employee for requesting certain assignments because of nerve damage in her leg, saying her racist Facebook posts meant the airline was on solid legal ground when it let her go.
Averted Rail Strike Highlights Perils Of Strict Absence Rules
Many major employers utilize point-based attendance systems to minimize unexpected absences, but these so-called no-fault absence policies recently pushed thousands of rail workers to the brink of a strike and can be a lightning rod for discrimination claims.
Paving Co. Retaliated Against Union Workers, NLRB Says
A New York paving company laid off workers in retaliation for their union's decision to file a grievance over the company's crew sizes, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel ruled Monday, with a dissenting member saying it wasn't clear anti-union sentiments motivated the layoffs.
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Workers United's ongoing campaign to unionize Starbucks has been a smashing success, reaching more than 300 stores across the country. But contract bargaining has been a different story as the company throws u... (more story)
The bargaining representatives of a rail workers' union whose membership rejected U.S. freight railroads' first contract proposal have agreed on a second proposal to present to the workers, moving contract neg... (more story)
A North Carolina physical therapy and rehab facility violated federal labor law when it filed a state court lawsuit and made discovery requests related to its claims that a group of fired workers defamed it du... (more story)
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a win for an American Airlines pilots union in a class action brought by regional pilots who were denied seniority credits, holding a lower court correctly found the pilots ... (more story)
The National Labor Relations Board determined Tuesday that a South Carolina construction company illegally fired a worker for talking about his raise, saying the worker was terminated in a bid to discourage ot... (more story)
A Pennsylvania state court judge upheld an arbitrator's award that gave union members at the Allegheny County Jail paid time off when they had to quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19, finding that the ad... (more story)
Employees at two Southern California CVS locations will be able to vote on union representation, after United Food and Commercial Workers units secured confirmation of their proposed bargaining units in separa... (more story)
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A pair of Republican lawmakers wrote to the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday demanding to know if the agency would withdraw guidance the legislators said "directly contraven... (more story)
A Colorado county board denied a $2,000 bonus to workers who took sick leave during the coronavirus pandemic, a former employee for the county claimed in a proposed class and collective suit, saying that flagg... (more story)
The Second Circuit backed the New York City Police Department on Tuesday in a Black ex-cop's suit alleging the department tried to push him into a less-desirable job to punish him for confronting a superior ab... (more story)
Morrison Foerster LLP said Tuesday it was expanding its litigation and global employment and labor groups with a new partner from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
A Boston Police Department commissioner who was fired over domestic abuse allegations argued Tuesday that his defamation suit against the city requires testimony from a Davis Malm PC attorney who compiled a re... (more story)
A union must arbitrate a dispute over the removal of a pilot from his duties at Southwest Airlines, a Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying federal labor law calls for an arbitrator to step in to interpret... (more story)
Plaintiff-side labor law firm Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP said Tuesday that it had opened a new office in Palo Alto, California, its eighth location nationwide, in a bid to step up its representation of tech wor... (more story)
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Uber’s recent payout to resolve what New Jersey said were taxes owed for independent contractor misclassification brings attention to a less discussed element of the worker status debate, but doesn’t directly ... (more story)
A group of companies tasked with rebuilding Puerto Rico's energy infrastructure in the wake of devastating hurricanes sued a former worker and urged a Puerto Rico federal court to block Houston-based arbitrati... (more story)
Uber urged a New York federal judge to toss amended claims that a ride-hailing driver earned less than minimum wage, arguing that the driver only raised vague, impersonal and factually unsupported claims of mistreatment.
A former receptionist for Health Management Corporation of America has filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court alleging she was fired for alerting supervisors to a male co-worker who verbally abused and sexua... (more story)
Casino dealers and a gambling and hospitality company received approval Tuesday of a $1.2 million settlement, ending a three-year-old suit alleging the company's tip pooling system failed to pay for workers' minimum wage.
A state court judge will let a North Carolina lawyer-turned-CEO pursue claims that his medical-records software firm and its besmirched new owner shortchanged him during the takeover, largely rejecting their b... (more story)
Eleven female exotic dancers have initiated a proposed collective action against a South Florida strip club operator, alleging they weren't paid minimum wages for several years because they were wrongly classi... (more story)