Law firms are beginning to recognize implicit bias as a problem. But too few recognize that it is also an opportunity to broaden our thinking and become better legal problem solvers, says Daniel Karon of Karon LLC. ...read more

From a small-business perspective, California's worker misclassification law codifying the state supreme court's Dynamex decision is an invasive move that threatens entrepreneurship, particularly for the trucking industry, says Greg Feary of Scopelitis ...read more

#MeToo turns two this fall, and while troubling reports of bad workplace behavior have emerged since the movement began, legislation and grassroots community collaborations that focus on preventive measures, such as training and external certifications ...read more

Judges on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on Wednesday questioned whether three Pittsburgh-area school districts went too far in requiring contracted construction workers to pass criminal background checks before being allowed on school property ...read more

DLA Piper took business away from a female partner and criticized her performance after she reported a series of sexual assaults at the hands of a co-chair of the firm's US Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice, according to her newly filed ...read more

Billionaire Alki David vehemently denied sexually harassing or battering a former employee during another belligerent day on the witness stand Tuesday, drawing repeated warnings from a Los Angeles judge while colorfully testifying that his antics were ...read more

A federal jury in South Carolina has awarded $1.5 million to a veteran employee of a decades-long nuclear cleanup project, agreeing she was punished for alerting managers about racism in the workplace. ...read more

Illinois’ recently passed law requiring freight railroads to operate with two crew members in nearly all circumstances is preempted and unenforceable under federal authority calling minimum-crew laws unnecessary, major railroads claimed in federal court ...read more

The First Circuit on Tuesday rejected an information technology worker’s libel suit over a psychiatrist’s conclusion that he was unfit for work, finding scant evidence the psychiatrist was driven by revenge over a threatened malpractice suit. ...read more

The head of the NAACP sharply criticized Comcast on Tuesday afternoon, charging that the company is touting its commitment to diversity while simultaneously working to narrow a bedrock civil rights law in a closely watched racial bias case against the ...read more

Workers at a Puerto Rican Coca-Cola bottler and beverage distributor lost federal labor law protection when they kept striking after finding out that their union opposed the walk-out, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, reversing an Obama-era ...read more

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Georgia county’s win in a proposed class action alleging it violated federal wage law by denying overtime to more than 500 deputy sheriffs and custodial officers, saying the county wasn't their employer. ...read more

A Washington chapter of the Service Employees International Union has agreed to pay $3.25 million to refund nonunion home health care providers for agency fees and dues deducted before the U.S. Supreme Court declared compulsory fees unconstitutional in ...read more

A Texas employer who purportedly cheated his H-2B visa workers out of overtime wages has surrendered $70,000 in back pay and civil penalties as a result of a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation into the payment practices, the ...read more

The University of Miami asked a Florida federal judge Monday to enter a judgment in its favor on former football head coach Al Golden's claim it owes him millions of dollars in separation pay, saying buyout language in his contract was clear and unambiguous ...read more

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck a deal with Dollar General to end a long-running Illinois federal suit alleging the bargain retailer's criminal background check policy discriminated against a nationwide class of black job applicants ...read more

A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday ordered arbitration in a driver's suit alleging food delivery app DoorDash misclassified him as an independent contractor, saying the driver isn't a transportation worker who'd be exempt from arbitration ...read more

A former New Jersey law clerk’s sexual harassment case against a judge facing removal for unrelated ethics charges over his remarks in a rape case, including asking the accuser whether she'd tried to close her legs to avert an assault, has been referred ...read more

Counsel for ADP LLC and two former sales employees clashed Tuesday in New Jersey federal court over whether to rein in the human resources company's restrictive covenant agreements in the wake of a Third Circuit opinion finding such pacts enforceable ...read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's new book "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" offers hope for our constitutional system through stories of American greatness, and sheds much-needed light on originalism for skeptics, says Sixth Circuit ...read more

FordHarrison LLP announced it has lured two Akerman LLP attorneys with substantial experience in labor and employment matters to bolster its ranks in New York City. ...read more

A Massachusetts federal judge handed Harvard University a win Tuesday in a landmark admissions trial, finding the Ivy League school's race-conscious admissions policy is constitutional. ...read more

Pennsylvania and Florida have hopped on the bandwagon of states introducing legislation that would allow college athletes to be paid for endorsements after the governor of California signed a bill into law Monday that inspired those proposals. ...read more

McDonald’s can’t be held liable for wage-and-hour violations allegedly committed by a California franchisee, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, saying the fast food giant didn’t exercise enough control over the workers to be deemed a joint employer. ...read more

In light of past federal court decisions reining in the U.S. Department of Labor 's rulemaking authority, inevitable challenges to the agency’s new overtime rule and proposed regular rate exclusion may whittle down aspects where they extend beyond ...read more