New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to require businesses to notify the state if artificial intelligence is a factor in certain layoffs or plant closures is probably another public policy misfire in the effort to manage AI's encroachment on the workforce, attorneys say.
A U.S. House Republican who has vocally opposed Democratic-backed analyses for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor or employee announced two bills related to the issue Thursday, proposing a new worker classification standard in one of the measures.
Courts will continue to refine the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for transportation workers involved in interstate commerce, showing a greater fidelity to textualist interpretations of the statute and expanding the exemption’s coverage. Here, Law360 explores the state of debate on the exemption in light of the law's 100th anniversary.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to require businesses to notify the state if artificial intelligence is a factor in certain layoffs or plant closures is probably another public policy misfire in the effort to manage AI's encroachment on the workforce, attorneys say.
A U.S. House Republican who has vocally opposed Democratic-backed analyses for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor or employee announced two bills related to the issue Thursday, proposing a new worker classification standard in one of the measures.
Courts will continue to refine the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for transportation workers involved in interstate commerce, showing a greater fidelity to textualist interpretations of the statute and expanding the exemption’s coverage. Here, Law360 explores the state of debate on the exemption in light of the law's 100th anniversary.
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February 14, 2025
The Center for Investigative Reporting told the Ninth Circuit on Friday that federal contractors' workforce demographic reports were not protected by a commercial data exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, as there was no "intimate information" in those reports.
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February 14, 2025
Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce demanded Friday that the U.S. Department of Labor provide details about why certain worker safety documents were removed from the federal government's website, saying some information seems to have been arbitrarily removed because it referenced "diversity" or "gender."
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February 14, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge said Friday he plans to rule "promptly" on a request by worker and consumer advocates to stop the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing three federal agencies' data but couldn't say when following a wide-ranging hearing on the bid.
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February 14, 2025
A Third Circuit panel's decision in a U.S. Department of Labor suit that a home health agency needed to pay $7 million to home health aides for travel time creates a new, unsupported law, the company said, urging the full court to jump in.
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February 14, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the final approval of a $4 million deal in a wage and hour class action involving transportation company CRST. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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February 14, 2025
A challenge to the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule updating the math for Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wages needs to be paused while the department's top brass catches up on the litigation, the DOL and the groups suing told a Texas federal court Friday.
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February 14, 2025
Former digital media startup The Messenger has struck a deal to end a class action alleging it failed to give hundreds of workers enough notice about its impending layoffs and shutdown, the company told a New York federal court.
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February 14, 2025
A Massachusetts portfolio manager says Fiera Capital Inc. lured him to the asset management firm with promises he could earn up to $850,000 a year, then sidelined him so he was unable to qualify for bonuses and forced him out a year later.
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February 14, 2025
This week the Second Circuit is to consider whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a former senior vice president at a global investment firm claiming it discriminated against him due to his race and religion and gave him false poor performance reviews before firing him.
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February 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice said it will appeal to the Ninth Circuit after a federal judge tossed its suit accusing the state of Nevada and its public employees retirement system of overcharging service members for pension credits.
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February 13, 2025
Washington's highest court grilled attorneys on both sides of a debate over state pay transparency law on Thursday, with some justices suggesting the employer's stance put too much onus on workers while another expressed doubt the protections should extend to people who apply for jobs they have no chance to get.
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February 13, 2025
A D.C. federal judge extended his temporary restraining order barring USAID from placing thousands of employees on administrative leave for another week on Thursday, saying he needed more time to rule on the plaintiff employees unions' preliminary injunction request to stop the agency's overhaul while the case proceeds.
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February 13, 2025
A paving company told a D.C. federal court Thursday that it has agreed to shell out $370,000 to 34 workers who claimed they were paid below the prevailing wage while working on public works projects.
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February 13, 2025
The work that a Flowers Foods distributor performed was part of an uninterrupted stream of interstate commerce, an Oregon federal judge said, keeping in court the worker's individual claims that he was misclassified as an independent contractor but tossing the class and collective ones.
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February 13, 2025
Construction trade organizations urged a Minnesota federal court Thursday to block a state law from taking effect that would slap steep fines on companies that misclassify employees as independent contractors, saying the statute's accompanying 14-prong test to determine worker classification is too ambiguous to stand.
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February 13, 2025
U.S. citizens and H-2B landscape workers have called on a Kansas federal judge to sanction a company accused of cheating them out of overtime pay, saying it supplied "woefully incomplete" class lists that were not in compliance with court orders.
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February 13, 2025
A former deputy associate solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor has joined a D.C. employment boutique as of counsel, the firm announced this week.
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February 13, 2025
A Florida federal judge signed off Thursday on a nearly $15,000 settlement that resolves a former manager's lawsuit accusing two telehealth companies of misclassifying her as overtime-exempt and causing her to lose out on extra wages.
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February 13, 2025
A Washington federal judge awarded an Amazon worker a fraction of the $1.6 million in attorney fees he requested in his recently settled suit claiming the company blocked him from promotions due to his military service, finding the outcome of the case didn't warrant an amount that high.
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February 13, 2025
A security officer agreed to drop her proposed class and collective suit accusing a hospital system of automatically deducting unpaid but never taken lunch breaks from pay, she told a Kentucky federal court.
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February 13, 2025
A former DraftKings engineer asked a Massachusetts federal court not to toss his suit accusing the company of firing him the day after he asked to take parental leave, saying he can benefit from a Massachusetts paid leave law despite living in Wisconsin.
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February 12, 2025
Unions and nonprofits seeking to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's data have enhanced their injunction request, looking also to shield the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's and Department of Health and Human Services' data and prove they have standing to sue.
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February 12, 2025
A New York federal judge largely denied Foley Hoag LLP's bid to partially escape a Moldovan former employee's lawsuit, saying Wednesday he put forward enough information to back up his claims that the firm discriminated against him because of his Russian heritage and disability.
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February 12, 2025
A lawyer for Nike urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday to block an Oregon local newspaper from publishing workplace harassment questionnaires provided by plaintiffs' attorney in pay equity litigation against the athletic apparel giant.
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February 12, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday rescinded a directive for name, image and likeness compensation for athletes to not discriminate against women under Title IX guidelines, calling the guidance enacted in the final days of the Biden administration "overly burdensome" and "profoundly unfair.''