Trump Taps Ex-DOL Official To Serve As EEOC Top Cop

By Anne Cullen

The White House nominated a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney who previously led the U.S. Department of Labor's contractor compliance arm to serve as the general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Fox News Must Face Ex-Worker's Suit Alleging Sex Assault

By Patrick Hoff

Fox News can't escape an ex-employee's lawsuit alleging he was sexually assaulted by a former executive producer for shows hosted by Greta Van Susteren and Tucker Carlson, with a New York federal judge saying jurors could find the producer's invitation to drinks was tied to the men's employment.

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Workers Look To Lock In Sweeping Workday AI Bias Class

By Patrick Hoff

A group of rejected job applicants asked a California federal court to grant class status to their lawsuit alleging Workday's artificial intelligence tools discriminated against workers because of their age, sex, disability and race, arguing the expense and complexity of the case would make individual litigation unrealistic.

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BlackBerry Settles Former Exec's Retaliation Suit Over Firing

By Patrick Hoff

BlackBerry has resolved a former executive's lawsuit alleging she was fired for reporting that the company's CEO sexually harassed her before assuming the top job, according to a filing in California federal court.

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Charter Tells Panel It Fired Worker Over Pot Use, Not PTSD

By Brian Steele

Charter Communications denied firing a Connecticut employee over her post-traumatic stress disorder and argued before an appellate panel Tuesday that even if she had established a proper record of her diagnosis, she still would have been terminated on a "reasonable suspicion" that she had worked under the influence of marijuana.

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Ex-Coach Says Colo. School District Fueled Racial Bias

By Rachel Konieczny

A Black former basketball coach for a Colorado school district urged a federal judge not to toss his discrimination lawsuit that claimed the district retaliated against him for raising concerns about racism in the district, contending he plausibly alleged "a racially hostile environment."

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Weedmaps Sex Harassment Suit Stayed Amid Arbitration Bid

By Jonathan Capriel

Weedmaps has gotten paused a pregnancy and sexual harassment lawsuit accusing the company of fostering a hostile work environment where the CEO made "sexually demeaning" comments about women, with a California state judge saying she wants to decide whether the case should go into arbitration.

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TikTok Pay Scale Suit On Pause Pending Wash. Appeal

By MJ Koo

A Washington state court has extended a stay in a proposed class action accusing TikTok of omitting salary information from job postings, keeping the case paused while an appeals court considers whether a key provision of the state's pay transparency law applies retroactively.

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Calif. Labor Commissioner Can't Shake Wage-Delay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A California state judge refused to toss a lawsuit accusing the state Labor Commissioner's Office of routinely taking years to process workers' wage claims, rejecting the agency's arguments that the court should stay out of the dispute and that workers can pursue their unpaid wages elsewhere.

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Colo. Judge Certifies H-2A Workers' Overtime Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Colorado federal judge granted migrant workers' certification bid for a collective and class action alleging that KB Custom Ag Services LLC misclassified their jobs, failed to pay required overtime and breached their contracts.

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KinderCare Banned Wash. Workers' Side Jobs, Lawsuit Says

By Rachel Riley

KinderCare has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington state court accusing the nationwide childcare chain of barring employees from taking additional jobs in violation of an Evergreen State law protecting workers' moonlighting rights.

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Ga. HVAC Co. Workers Snag Class Cert.

By Benjamin Morse

A Georgia federal judge conditionally certified a collective of technicians who claim a heating and air company shorted them on overtime and other wages, according to a court filing.

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Workers Want Investment Bank Pay Suit To Go On

By Benjamin Morse

An investment-banking enterprise and two managing directors are asking a Texas federal judge to resolve factual questions about workers' exempt status too early in the case, the employees argued, pushing the judge to keep their wage suit alive.

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Auto Repair Co., Mechanic Settle Colo. OT Suit

By MJ Koo

A Colorado auto repair company and a former mechanic who alleged the business failed to pay any overtime despite workers regularly clocking more than 50 hours a week have reached a settlement that will end the case, federal court records showed.

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Colo. Hotel Workers Sue Over Missed Rest Breaks

By MJ Koo

A Denver hotel server and bartender sued the property's management companies in Colorado state court, alleging the operators of a Hyatt Regency denied hundreds of hourly workers legally required rest breaks and failed to pay them for missed time, partly because chronic understaffing made breaks impossible.

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Former Cannabis Co. Exec Seeks $400K Over Contract Breach

By Jonathan Capriel

New York cannabis company Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. must fork over the $400,000 in unpaid wages and other benefits owed to a former executive, the former employee argued in federal court, saying that the company has admitted it never gave written cause when firing him, thereby violating his contract.

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White & Case Adds Sullivan & Cromwell Employment, M&A Pro

By Andrea Keckley

White & Case LLP announced Monday that it has added a longtime Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorney to its New York office, touting the expertise she brings to its transactional and employment teams.

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Ogletree Continues West Coast Hires With Jackson Lewis Atty

By Bonnie Eslinger

Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has landed a seasoned litigator from Jackson Lewis P.C. with extensive experience in ERISA and employment law matters, the firm announced Monday.

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5th Circ. Ruling Hints At Loper Bright's Effect On OSHA Suits

The Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Exxon Mobil v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission relied on Loper Bright to narrow the scope of illnesses that employers must record, signaling that courts may continue to scrutinize agency assertions that deference is due, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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Burford Exec, Holland & Knight Adviser Open AI-Native Firm

By Andrea Keckley

Two veterans of the legal industry announced on Wednesday that they have teamed up to launch FairPlay Law, an AI-native firm based in Manhattan and focused on representing employees.

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Michael Best Combines With NY-Based Kane Kessler

By Kevin Penton

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Wednesday that it is combining with New York-based firm Kane Kessler PC, adding 36 attorneys and a Big Apple presence to a firm that ranked 143rd on Law360's list of the nation's largest law firms.

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Protesters Say Feds' Fight Shows Need For Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

The U.S. government's opposition to a special investigation of prosecutorial misconduct that "poisoned" a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case suggests Chicago prosecutors are still shielding critical details regarding the extent of official communications preceding the prosecution, underscoring the probe's necessity, protesters argued Tuesday.

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Apple Backs Its $132K Fee Ask Over 'Bad Faith' Subpoenas

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple has urged a California federal magistrate judge to grant its $132,700 attorney fee request as a sanction against plaintiff consumers' lead lawyer in antitrust litigation claiming Google muscles out rival search engines, but said Apple's counsel doesn't want to disclose their "highly and competitively sensitive" negotiated legal rates.

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Newman Saga Prompts Bill To Limit Judicial Suspensions

By Courtney Bublé

The long-running saga over Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's fitness to remain on the court has exposed "major flaws" in the judicial accountability system, according to a Republican member of the House who introduced a bill Wednesday to reform it.

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Senate Panel Weighs 6 Trump Judicial Picks From Red States

By Courtney Bublé

Six nominees for U.S. district judge appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for their nomination hearing.

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