Confirmations To Labor Board Set Up Policy Shift

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board is set to begin rethinking a pile of union-friendly precedents set under former President Joe Biden after the U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed two nominees, including a third Republican member.

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Calif. Gig Union Hits Milestone Under New Bargaining Law

By Braden Campbell

The California Gig Workers Union is on track to represent hundreds of thousands of ride-share drivers in California after a state agency said Friday that the Service Employees International Union offshoot has shown sufficient support among the state's most active drivers.

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Trump Renews Bid To Oust Fed's Cook Over Mortgage Claims

By Rae Ann Varona and Jon Hill

The White House has notified Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook that President Donald Trump is "considering" moving again to oust her from the central bank, setting up another potential legal battle after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked her removal in June.

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Ex-Prosecutor Says DOJ Fired Him Over Anti-Trump Blog

By Carolina Bolado

A former federal prosecutor sued acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other U.S. Department of Justice officials in Florida federal court Friday, claiming they violated his First Amendment rights when they fired him over anti-Trump online comments he'd made while in private practice.

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Summer's Last NYC Public Defender Strike Ends With Deal

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders union said it has struck a deal with the organization's management, ending the last public defender strike in New York City this summer.

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Comcast Escapes Gay Worker's Harassment Suit, For Now

By Patrick Hoff

Comcast has defeated, for now, a lawsuit from a gay former senior manager who alleged his boss belittled him and made disparaging remarks because of his sexual orientation, with a Pennsylvania federal judge concluding his presuit discrimination charges with federal and state civil rights agencies were filed too late.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: Wage Case May Expand Bias Carveout

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how the California Supreme Court is questioning whether a ministerial exception used by religious employers in discrimination cases applies to wage and hours claims, and how some federal appellate courts are seeking to curb the reach of a longstanding test for evaluating workplace discrimination claims without U.S. Supreme Court assistance.

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Rising Star: Wigdor's Meredith Firetog

By Tim Ryan

Meredith Firetog of Wigdor LLP negotiated a settlement for a Sean "Diddy" Combs accuser who became a key witness in the case that resulted in his conviction for transporting women for prostitution, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Ga. County, Appraiser Reach Deal To Wrap Up Race Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge on Friday closed a Black appraiser's lawsuit accusing Georgia's Macon-Bibb County of denying her a position she was qualified for due to her race, pursuant to a recent settlement.

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Fired Doc, Fla. Hospital Strike Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida doctor has settled an age discrimination suit against a hospital that he claimed abruptly pulled a contract renewal and replaced him with a much younger doctor.

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Tax Preparers Seek OK Of $1M Deal In OT Suit

By MJ Koo

Tax preparers who accused a New York tax preparation company of overtime and wage violations have urged a New York federal court to grant preliminary approval of a $1.05 million class action settlement.

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Crocs Workers Near $300K Deal In OT Miscalculation Suit

By MJ Koo

Distribution center workers who accused Crocs Inc. of miscalculating overtime pay by excluding shift differentials and bonuses from their regular rate have moved to settle their Fair Labor Standards Act claims for $300,000 in Colorado federal court.

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Engineer Says Unsigned Contract Bars Oil Co. Arbitration

By Zach Dupont

A former worker of an oilfield services company told a Colorado federal judge that the company can't compel arbitration on his Fair Labor Standards Act and North Dakota wage law claims because the company isn't a party to the arbitration agreement that the worker signed.

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Cable Techs Must Arbitrate Comcast Misclassification Suit

By Nadia Dreid

Cable technicians who say that Comcast and several other companies have been misclassifying them as independent contractors to deny them job protections will have to arbitrate their claims, a Virginia federal court has ruled.

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Brief

Manufacturer Unistrut Hit With FLSA Suit Over OT Pay

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Unistrut International Corp. worker filed a proposed collective action in Michigan federal court on Friday accusing the metal framing system manufacturer of shortchanging thousands of hourly employees on overtime by failing to include shift differentials, bonuses and other compensation when calculating their pay.

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Immigrant Groups Seek 1st Circ. Stay On TPS Work Limits

By Katherine Smith

A coalition of immigration advocacy groups, a union and its affiliate asked the First Circuit to step in after a Massachusetts federal judge declined to freeze a one-year work authorization cap for those with temporary protected status, arguing that its members will suffer irreparable harm without immediate relief.

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Judge Blocks VA Bid To End Union Contract During Talks

By Braden Campbell

A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday blocked the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from ditching at its imminent expiration a union contract it was previously ordered to reinstate, pointing to language extending the deal during negotiations.

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ERISA Recap: 6 Important Rulings From July

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Ninth Circuit rejected a fund manager's bid to force a 401(k) suit into arbitration, a district court tossed a pension de-risking suit, and the D.C. Circuit unraveled a union pension fund's $13 million withdrawal liability win.

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IRS, Treasury Plan To Float Regs For Retirement Matches

By Zak Kostro

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS intend to propose regulations to implement a provision of the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 designed to allow lower-income taxpayers who contribute to their retirement savings to receive a federal contribution of up to $1,000, the agencies said Friday.

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Colo. Pot Co. Says Sales Director Disloyal, Worked For Rival

By Jonathan Capriel

A Colorado cannabis product manufacturer, Bonanza, claims its former sales director was secretly aiding a competing marijuana business, giving the rival confidential product development data and attempting to poach clients when he was ultimately fired, according to a lawsuit filed in state court.

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Brief

CACI Refiles Suit Against Army Subcontractor In State Court

By Elaine Briseño

A CACI Inc. unit has shifted a lawsuit to Virginia state court that accuses its former subcontractor, T2S, of poaching its staff when the subcontractor became the primary contractor for a U.S. Army cybersecurity project.

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Insurers Nab Partial Win In $3.7M Whistleblower Murder Row

By Abraham Gross

An AIG unit and an excess insurer won a partial victory in their bid to seek a $3.7 million coverage reimbursement from a tree services company for two civil suits tied to claims of whistleblower retaliation that ended in murder.

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Limiting Employer Risk If Calif. Case Upends Time Rounding

The California Supreme Court's holdings in recent years suggest that it may tighten the rules for — or even eliminate — time clock rounding when it decides Camp v. Home Depot, so employers should consider taking preemptive steps to guard against large potential liability, says Jacqueline Crispino at the Jhaveri-Weeks Firm.

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Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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