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In a case of first impression, the California Court of Appeal determined in this case whether an employee who has exhausted all permissible leave under the California Pregnancy Disability Leave Law may state a claim for failure to accommodate a disability under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.

On July 18, 2016, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed into law a bill that restores the right of employees to bring wrongful discharge claims for employment discrimination based on the public policy stated in the N.C. Equal Employment Practices Act.

The EEOC filed suit against CRST (a trucking company) alleging that over 250 female employees and prospective employees had been subjected to sexual harassment.

The trial court granted the JNOV motion and awarded Shi and Fenn Bridge $719,000 in attorney's fees as the prevailing parties in defending against Elation's claims.

John Glynn worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative before he commenced a medical leave of absence for a serious eye condition (myopic macular degeneration).

On December 31, 2014, the Court of Appeal for the Second District of California held in an unpublished opinion that employers are not required to relieve employees of all duty during rest periods mandated by California state law.

The Massachusetts Wage Act automatically entitles an employee who proves an unlawful failure to pay wages to treble damages.

In July, the Michigan Court of Claims restored the Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA), as well as an earlier version of the minimum wage legislation...

Many of us are currently buckling in for a frigid holiday weekend (except for the lucky folks down in the south and southwest).

Governor Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2155, fundamentally altering California's arbitration landscape by incorporating key Federal Arbitration Act exemptions into state law. The amendment specifically adopts the transportation worker exemption and the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act provisions, eliminating a longstanding legal argument employers used to enforce arbitration agreements under California law when federal law did not apply. Effective January 1, 2027, this

As we previously reported here, on April 3, 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget ("OMB")

A Missouri federal district court judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit by a former partner at Husch Blackwell LLP alleging mismanagement and the illegal withholding of contributions to the firm’s 401(k) plan. The judge based his ruling on the plaintiff’s inability to show that year-end profit-sharing contributions were plan assets before the firm deposited them into his plan account, which left him unable to prove any violations of federal benefits law.

A federal jury in the Northern District of California has recently found former Korn/Ferry International corporate executive recruiter, David Nosal, guilty on six counts of conspiracy, stealing trade secrets, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

On August 18, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in deciding the case Hamilton, et al. v. Dallas County, overruled a nearly 30-year-old line of precedent that limited...

The First Circuit recently that an employer can be held liable for sex discrimination for terminating an employee whose job performance has been maligned by a jilted co-worker.

As we reported earlier, a former Harper's Bazaar unpaid intern is pursuing a lawsuit against publisher The Hearst Corporation in which she claims (among other things) to have been an "employee" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act who was not compensated in compliance with that law.

On March 2, a class of job applicants requested that the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina approve a nearly $3 million settlement they had reached with Delhaize America LLC, Food Lion LLC’s parent company.