/employment?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:30 +0000 /employment/articles/2360115?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360115 Attorneys have been analyzing the Trump administration's many pronouncements against diversity, equity and inclusion programs over the past several months, only to be left with questions as to what exactly "illegal DEI" is and what the government will do to police it. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:41:32 +0000 /employment/articles/2358792?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2358792 The first half of 2025 saw the dispute between NASCAR and two of its teams become supercharged and a judge give final approval to the disputed settlement for the NCAA name, image and likeness antitrust litigation. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:54:30 +0000 /employment/articles/2360725?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360725 The Ninth Circuit refused to revive a gastroenterologist's constitutional challenge against Sutter Health alleging the nonprofit paid kickbacks to its physicians to refer low-income patients to other hospitals, ruling Wednesday the appellant lacks evidence of purported kickbacks and doesn't address how the alleged injury to those patients harmed him.  Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:34:56 +0000 /employment/articles/2360669?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360669 The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to stay a Maryland federal court's ruling that the president's removal of three U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission members was unlawful, while the commissioners argue they should be allowed to continue serving through the government's appeal. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:57:31 +0000 /employment/articles/2360499?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360499 A Teamsters local sought to nix Kroger's attempt to dismiss allegations that the grocery giant won't arbitrate a grievance about health insurance coverage for a worker's family members, telling a Kansas federal judge the company can't raise claims about arbitrability at this point in the proceeding. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:43:39 +0000 /employment/articles/2360346?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360346 An energy infrastructure consulting firm called on an Oregon federal judge to throw out a Native American nonprofit's lawsuit alleging the firm's founder and tribal liaison misappropriated its trade secrets, saying the nonprofit has failed to identify the trade secrets with any particularity. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:37:38 +0000 /employment/articles/2360729?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360729 The Eleventh Circuit refused to revive a discrimination suit by former Disney employees over the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate and augmented protocols requiring unvaccinated workers to socially distance and wear masks, ruling Wednesday the appellants never made religious objections to those protocols and never sought religious-based accommodations.  Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:49:55 +0000 /employment/articles/2360369?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360369 A Michigan hospital must face the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's claim that it violated federal disability law by not transferring a nurse who suffers from a metabolic disorder to a less-demanding role, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:14:45 +0000 /employment/articles/2360420?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360420 A Pittsburgh Presbyterian seminary promised to fight discrimination and promote diversity, but the promise was hollow, according to a former interim director who claims her bosses ignored her complaints about discrimination and responded to litigation by insisting the seminary fell under a "ministerial exemption" to antidiscrimination laws. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:04:57 +0000 /employment/articles/2360580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360580 A coalition of labor unions has told the First Circuit that the abrupt termination of Biden-era humanitarian parole programs is generating "chaos in American workplaces," as workers lose their work authorization and employers are left in the lurch. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:34:37 +0000 /employment/articles/2360394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360394 A former Georgia worker for construction materials manufacturer Sto Corp. accused the company in a Tuesday disability discrimination lawsuit of showing him the door after he was hospitalized with a heart condition. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:27:14 +0000 /employment/articles/2359548?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2359548 A Tennessee federal judge has sanctioned a group of building manufacturing employees and ordered them to pay their former employers' attorney fees, finding they'd intentionally withheld and spoiled evidence during discovery. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:04:50 +0000 /employment/articles/2360185?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360185 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood last week, ruling that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary has authority over an Affordable Care Act preventive care task force, risks harming the credibility of the task force and could open the door to politicians dictating clinical recommendations, says Michael Kolber at Manatt. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:55:48 +0000 /employment/articles/2360028?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360028 A Texas federal court has ordered U.S. consumer credit company Americor to respond to allegations that it's refusing to comply with an arbitrator's summons in a Bermuda-based financial firm's dispute involving an ex-employee and a noncompete agreement. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:07:42 +0000 /employment/articles/2359493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2359493 Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:45:41 +0000 /employment/articles/2360235?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360235 An on-demand moving and delivery service classifies workers as independent contractors — despite exercising substantial control over their work — and refuses to reimburse drivers for the costs they incur from buying gas and paying tolls, according to a proposed class action filed in California state court. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:34:39 +0000 /employment/articles/2360390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360390 The company that owns and franchises restaurant chains like Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin' and Jimmy John's has been sued in Georgia federal court by an ex-employee who alleges she was fired after threatening to report a manager for discrimination. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:58:01 +0000 /employment/articles/2360099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360099 With Florida's CHOICE Act taking effect this week, employers should consider the pros and cons of drafting new restrictive covenant agreements with longer noncompete or garden leave periods and enhanced enforcement mechanisms, say attorneys at Vedder Price. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:56:10 +0000 /employment/articles/2360619?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2360619 A state court judge in California has granted Texas attorney Tony Buzbee's request to toss claims of defamation and extortion brought by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter over sexual abuse allegations connected to Sean "Diddy" Combs, finding that the state's free speech statute requires dismissal. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:47:43 +0000 /employment/articles/2358756?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2358756 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to review Hencely v. Fluor, a case involving a soldier’s personal injury claims against a government contractor, suggests the justices could reconsider a long-standing test for determining whether contractors are shielded from state-tort liability, says Lisa Himes at Rogers Joseph.