For nearly three years, the two sides have battered each other with relentless legal filings in a New York court, and their war over who should pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to sex abuse victims shows few signs of abating. Both accuse the other of an underhanded public relations campaign.
The Justice Department’s removal of some restrictions on non-career appointees’ participation in political activities walks back years of policy across presidential administrations aimed at maintaining the department’s independence, former government ethics lawyers said.
A group of federal employees can move forward with claims the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency violated their privacy rights by accessing their personal information, after a judge declined to dismissed their case.
An EEOC lawsuit alleging a Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast Inc. women’s retreat discriminated against men will test a lower standard for proving that a worker experienced harm.
The National Labor Relations Board is in the process of obtaining authorization from the Trump administration to begin hiring workers after suffering a year of grinding attrition.
A Pfizer Inc. contract provision requiring employees to keep the subject and materials of arbitration proceedings confidential is lawful, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
The National Labor Relations Board signaled that it’s unlikely to use rulemaking to change labor standards while it lacks enough members to overturn precedential decisions.
Virginia would void employee noncompetes for workers who are laid off without severance or other compensation, under a bill headed to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) for her signature.
Employers cannot contractually shorten the window workers have to sue under two federal employment laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and age, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A pair of commercial painting and waterproofing companies defeated a pension fund’s Third Circuit appeal seeking $800,000 in withdrawal liability, because the fund waited too long to demand payment.
High profile unionization efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have drawn renewed interest in labor laws. In this video, we look at what’s legal and what isn't when a company's employees want to unionize.
The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed dismissal of construction workers’ wage claims against Apex Materials, and its contractors and subcontractors, ruling that Nevada’s prevailing-wage statute requires exhaustion of administrative remedies before judicial review. Stuckey v. Apex Materials, LLC, 2026 BL 64324, Nev., 87775, 2/26/26
The NLRB ruled that Amazon’s announcement of enhancements to a previously existing career choice program providing reimbursement to employees for educational expense didn’t unlawfully discourage the employees from selecting the union as their representative, and didn’t violate the NLRA. Amazon.com Services, Inc., N.L.R.B., 29–CA–280153, 2/19/26
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that GE Appliances violated the National Labor Relations Act by unilaterally giving some bargaining unit employees, and not others, a raise without first negotiating with their union. GE Appliances, N.L.R.B., 09-CA-284214, 2/24/26
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