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BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A federal judge in New York on Feb. 13 stayed a lawsuit accusing a captive reinsurer and home health employers of a scheme to cheat home health aides out of lost wages and benefits pending the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in a case...

NEW YORK - A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in a Feb. 12 one-page order denied a plan administrator's petition for panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of a finding that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act allows for the reformation...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Feb. 13 ruled that time spent waiting for and undergoing exit searches is compensable under California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 7, answering a question certified by the Ninth Circuit U...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Feb. 11 sued a Connecticut hospital in federal court, claiming that its policy requiring individuals 70 and older to undergo ophthalmologic and neuropsychological examinations when seeking...

PHILADELPHIA - A hotel franchisor was awarded summary judgment by a federal judge in Pennsylvania on Feb. 6 in a suit brought by a former housekeeper accusing it of failing to pay overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and...

ST. LOUIS - The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 7 affirmed a district court's ruling that the trustees of three employee benefit funds failed to prove that a union company's corporate affiliates are liable under collective bargaining...

PHILADELPHIA - Neither the reliance provision nor the inquiry provision of an ordinance enacted by the city of Philadelphia barring employers from asking a prospective employee about their wage history when negotiating that employee's wage violates...

DENVER - Prison officers' pre- and post-shift tasks that include a security screening, briefings, retrieving and returning keys and equipment and walking to and from posts are compensable, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 4, reversing...

NEW YORK - Migraines that were allegedly caused by work-related stress that an employee alleged prevented him from performing a single job do not constitute "a substantial limitation," a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb....

DENVER - A railway worker who was injured while checking the contents of railcars failed to show that the workplace provided by his employer violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 5,...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A federal judge in Tennessee on Feb. 3 granted preliminary approval of a collective and class action settlement of age bias charges against Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (Volkswagen AG) and its subsidiaries through which the employer...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An attorney asking the high court to consider whether state bar association mandatory fees are subject to the same scrutiny outlined in Janus v. AFSCME and whether an automatic collection of fees until an attorney opts out violates...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Circuit's decision to impose a new "rigid" ministerial exception test - under which religious functions alone are not enough for the exception to apply - in two cases involving Catholic schools and former teachers...

CHICAGO - The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 3 affirmed a district court's ruling in favor of a disability insurer after determining that the lower court did not abuse its discretion by limiting its review of a long-term disability...

ST. LOUIS - The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 3 reversed a district court's ruling that a service provider for a 401(k) plan is not a fiduciary after determining that the service provider is a fiduciary because the service provider...