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Last week the Department of Labor published a Final Rule updating the federal overtime regulations.

Just 10 days before the implementation date of the proposed FLSA overtime regulations, Federal Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction...

Doe v. Department of Corr. & Rehab., 2019 WL 6907515 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)

After defense counsel reduced the settlement terms to writing and requested that the plaintiff execute the settlement agreement, the plaintiff refused.

A federal district court in Mississippi ruled for the first time that the "more harm than good" pleading standard established by the Supreme Court in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 134 S. Ct. 2459 (2014), applied to employer "stock drop" claims brought against the fiduciaries of plans sponsored by closely-held corporations.

A New York federal judge has refused to dismiss a putative class action alleging that Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company engaged in alienage discrimination when it rejected a Mexican-born applicant for an internship position because he was neither a U.S. citizen nor a legal permanent resident, even though he was legally authorized to work in the United States.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a proposed rule (pdf) that seeks to revise and restructure the agency’s rules of practice and procedure for conducting administrative hearings before the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ), the "trial court" that presides over many employment-related claims filed with the DOL.

The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public input on what to do with the Obama administration overtime rule.

Domenique Camacho Moran was a guest on Hofstra University's Frank G. Zarb School of Business podcast, Inside the Z-Suite.

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the importance of paying close attention to procedural rules.

Therefore, the Commission said, the Policy Statement "does not reflect current law" and "should not be relied upon by EEOC staff in investigations or litigations."

On Dec. 16, 2019, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) rescinded its 1997 policy statement on "Mandatory Binding Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Disputes ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") recently issued a landmark ruling concerning the protections of transgender employees under Title VII, a federal law which prohibits, among other things, sex discrimination in employment.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced last week that it had settled a suit against Pallet Companies (doing business as IFCO Systems) for $202,200.

This morning the United States Supreme Court declined to review a case that would have resolved a circuit split over whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") ...

Jones Day partner Mike Carvin discusses the oral argument he presented to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, 2016.

In Verdugo v. AlliantGroup, L.P., a California appeals court disregarded a forum selection clause requiring a California employee to pursue her wage and hour claims in Texas under Texas law, finding the clause violated California public policy.

In "Westendorf v. West Coast Contractors of Nevada, Inc.", the Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a sexual harassment complaint.