Employment

  • March 14, 2025

    NYC Asylum Shelter Co. Illegally Fired Workers, Suit Says

    A New York City contractor that provided shelter for asylum-seekers illegally laid off more than 200 employees without notice a class action filed in federal court said.

  • March 13, 2025

    Feds Can't Pause NYC Congestion Pricing Cases

    A New York federal judge denied the federal government's request to prioritize a case filed by Empire State transportation authorities over a newly launched Manhattan congestion pricing program that the Trump administration has moved to kill, saying Thursday the court wouldn't stay other cases over the program that are further along.

  • March 13, 2025

    Fla. Nursing Home Dodged Union After Transfer, NLRB Says

    A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that employees of a Florida nursing home were entitled to backpay and compensation for unused paid time off, finding that workers weren't told in advance that their facility switched operators in violation of a union collective bargaining agreement.

  • March 13, 2025

    Soulja Boy Beat And Raped Assistant, Jury Told As Trial Starts

    The artist known as Soulja Boy physically and sexually abused a live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, jurors in California state court heard on the first day of a civil assault and employment trial against the "Crank That" rapper on Thursday.

  • March 13, 2025

    Judge Trims Claims Of Botched Federal Savings Transition

    A D.C. federal judge trimmed a proposed class of federal employees and their family members' claims against two companies that manage workers' retirement plan and the plan's board Wednesday, tossing claims of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty but leaving breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims intact.

  • March 13, 2025

    Buehler's Managers Say Grocery Chain Flouts OT Laws

    Grocery chain Buehler's Fresh Foods is accused of failing to pay overtime wages to catering, produce, kitchen and bakery managers who put in more than 40 hours per workweek but were wrongly classified as exempt, according to a proposed collective action filed in Ohio federal court. 

  • March 13, 2025

    UAW Says Volkswagen Dodging Union On Shift Changes

    Volkswagen has violated federal labor law by looking to conduct layoffs as part of a shift reduction at a recently unionized plant in Tennessee without bargaining with the union, the United Auto Workers claim in an unfair labor practice charge filed Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board.

  • March 13, 2025

    Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund Beats Accountant's Bias Suit

    The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund defeated Thursday a former accountant's lawsuit claiming he was passed over for promotions and ultimately fired because he was a Black man in his 60s, with an Illinois federal judge finding it was his declining job performance that cost him the job.

  • March 13, 2025

    2nd Circ. Won't Revive Saks, Luxury Brands No-Poach Case

    A Second Circuit panel refused Thursday to revive an antitrust suit from former Saks Fifth Avenue employees over the retailer's alleged agreements with Gucci, Louis Vuitton and other luxury fashion houses to not hire workers from its stores.

  • March 13, 2025

    Bumble Bee Foods Accused Of Benefiting From Forced Labor

    Four Indonesian villagers who allege they were trapped in abusive and dangerous slave-working conditions for years aboard tuna fishing vessels sued Bumble Bee Foods LLC in California federal court, accusing the seafood giant of knowingly benefiting from forced labor in violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

  • March 13, 2025

    Ga. Court Nixes Reinstatement Of Officer Who Beat Jail Inmate

    The Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court decision that reinstated to his job a former Athens-Clarke County police officer who was found to have beaten a person incarcerated in county jail, ruling there was enough evidence to justify the officer's firing for the assault.

  • March 13, 2025

    Fed Unions Challenge Dissolution Of TSA Officers' Labor Deal

    A union coalition sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington federal court Thursday, claiming it arbitrarily shredded a contract covering airport security officers to punish their union for challenging the president's "anti-worker actions" in court.

  • March 13, 2025

    Home Chef, Staffing Co. Sued Over Harassment Firing

    A staffing agency and Relish Labs LLC, the legal entity behind meal kit delivery service Home Chef, have been sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who alleged she was fired after reporting sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of a co-worker.

  • March 13, 2025

    Russell Simmons Accuser Refiles Suit After Jurisdiction Issue

    A Jane Doe plaintiff whose New York federal court suit alleging Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons raped her in his apartment in the 1990s was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds on Thursday refiled the claims in state court.

  • March 13, 2025

    Coverage Bars Fla. Worker Who Died In Fall, Insurer Says

    A Michigan-based insurance company has asked a Florida federal court to declare that it doesn't owe coverage in a claim stemming from a condominium worker's death after falling five stories, asserting that its policy doesn't cover the death if it occurred during the scope of the employer's business.

  • March 13, 2025

    SEIU Fund Escapes Surgery Centers' Underpayment Suit

    A Service Employees International Union benefit fund no longer has to face a lawsuit four surgical centers launched accusing it of shortchanging them on patient treatments, with a New York federal judge saying Wednesday the centers have failed to show that any agreement existed between themselves and the fund.

  • March 13, 2025

    Judge Tosses Pot Co.'s Challenge To Calif. Labor Peace Law

    A California federal judge has dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Golden State's law requiring marijuana businesses to have labor peace agreements, saying that the court could not intervene in the matter because the entire industry is federally illegal.

  • March 13, 2025

    Colo. Panel Keeps Workers' Comp Law Out Of Contractor Suit

    An independent contractor cannot use Colorado's workers' compensation law to limit the damages awarded to a colleague for his negligence claim over an on-the-job injury, a state appeals panel ruled Thursday, saying that the two worked together, but not for each other.

  • March 13, 2025

    6th Circ. Won't Rehear Ex-Electric Co. Exec's Severance Suit

    The Sixth Circuit will not rethink its panel decision upholding the dismissal of a severance suit brought by American Electric Power Services Corp.'s former chief digital officer who claimed he was shortchanged on his way out the door, according to a Thursday order.

  • March 13, 2025

    Duke University Must Face Narrowed Race Bias Suit

    A North Carolina federal judge narrowed, but refused to fully dismiss, a suit against Duke University from a Black former worker who said he was fired after complaining that his boss made racially offensive comments, such as telling him he looked "too dark" on a video conference.

  • March 13, 2025

    J&J Unit Drops Noncompete Suit Against Ex-Marketing Exec

    Johnson & Johnson's vision unit has agreed to drop its claims against a former marketing director after reaching a settlement on allegations that she breached a noncompete agreement, according to a Thursday order in New Jersey federal court.

  • March 13, 2025

    Payroll Co. Accuses Ex-Managers Of Driving 'Mass Defection'

    A Georgia-based payroll software company has sued three former managers and the rival company that the ex-employees allegedly conspired to engineer a "mass defection" of workers to last year.

  • March 13, 2025

    UPenn Slams White Law Prof's Race Bias Claims

    The University of Pennsylvania's trustees pushed back Wednesday against a law professor's claim that her contract with the school was breached when she was sanctioned for racist remarks, saying it followed disciplinary procedures laid out in the faculty handbook.

  • March 13, 2025

    Meta Blocks Ex-Exec From Promoting Tell-All Memoir

    An international arbitrator issued an emergency ruling Wednesday blocking former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her recently released tell-all memoir "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism," finding that Meta has shown it'll likely win its nondisparagement claim against the author.

  • March 13, 2025

    Rikers Fails To Pay For OT Work, Correction Officers Say

    New York City fails to take into account preshift tasks and extra compensation correction officers working on Rikers Island receive when calculating their overtime wages, a proposed collective action filed in federal court said.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • How DOGE's Severance Plan May Affect Federal Employees

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    President Donald Trump's administration, working through the Department of Government Efficiency, recently offered a severance package to nearly all of the roughly 2 million federal employees, but unanswered questions about the offer, coupled with several added protections for government workers, led to fewer accepted offers than expected, says Aaron Peskin at Kang Haggerty.

  • Opinion

    At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice

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    The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • The Math Of Cross-Examination: Less Is More, More Is Less

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    When conducting cross-examination at trial, attorneys should remember that “less is more, and more is less” — limiting both the scope of questioning and the length of each query in order to control the witness’s testimony and keep the factfinders’ attention, says Thomas Innes at the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • Tools For Witness Control That Go Beyond Leading Questions

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    Though leading questions can be efficient and effective for constraining a witness’s testimony, this strategy isn’t appropriate for every trial and pretrial scenario, so techniques like headlining and looping can be deployed during direct examination, depositions and even witness interviews, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

  • 10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting

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    This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Will Independent Federal Agencies Remain Independent?

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    For 90 years, members of multimember independent federal agencies have relied on the U.S. Supreme Court's 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. establishing the security of their positions — but as the Trump administration attempts to overturn this understanding, it is unclear how the high court will respond, says Harvey Reiter at Stinson.

  • Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule

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    A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.

  • 4 Do's And Don'ts For Trial Lawyers Using Generative AI

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    Trial attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools should review a few key reminders, from the likelihood that prompts are discoverable to the rapid evolution of court rules, to safeguard against embarrassing missteps, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.

  • Defense Strategies For Politically Charged Prosecutions

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    Politically charged prosecutions have captured the headlines in recent years, providing lessons for defense counsel on how to navigate the distinct challenges, and seize the unique opportunities, such cases present, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

  • Axed ALJ Removal Protections Mark Big Shift For NLRB

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    A D.C. federal court's recent decision in VHS Acquisition Subsidiary No. 7 v. National Labor Relations Board removed long-standing tenure protections for administrative law judges by finding they must be removable at will by the NLRB, marking a significant shift in the agency's ability to prosecute and adjudicate cases, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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