/employment?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:33:27 +0000 /employment/articles/2412058?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412058 Tyler Skaggs' widow fought through sobs on the stand in a wrongful death trial Monday while describing the tremendous loss she feels from her husband's 2019 overdose, testifying that she feels angry at him and the Los Angeles Angels, who should be held accountable for their actions and inactions.  Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:07:21 +0000 /employment/articles/2412209?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412209 The D.C. Court of Appeals revived a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP associate's lawsuit alleging the firm reneged on its promises to pay tuition reimbursement and productivity bonuses, saying the trial court should have conducted "a fuller analysis" before shutting the book on the case. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:26:25 +0000 /employment/articles/2412252?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412252 Tyson Foods has been accused of systematically shorting Washington state workers on breaks, sick leave and overtime pay, according to a proposed class action the meat processing giant removed to federal court on Friday.   Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:35:48 +0000 /employment/articles/2412090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412090 An engineer was sentenced by a California federal judge to 46 months in prison for stealing trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection used by the government and planning to send it to the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:58:01 +0000 /employment/articles/2412222?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412222 The Teamsters discriminated against a longtime employee with post-traumatic stress disorder by scheduling her to work during her therapy sessions and requiring her to rent cars, which triggers her, a lawsuit filed Monday in D.C. federal court alleges. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:33:53 +0000 /employment/articles/2411420?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411420 A Washington-based marijuana producer agreed to pay more than $632,000 to the U.S. government over claims it obtained a forgivable loan, worth nearly $315,000, meant to aid businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the person who reported the company set to get 10% of the settlement. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:28:27 +0000 /employment/articles/2411426?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411426 A Massachusetts federal judge reconsidered reviving Medtronic's bid to defeat claims it violated the False Claims Act in light of new First Circuit precedent on a causation standard, but ruled that a whistleblower's evidence warranted keeping the claims alive for now. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:16:07 +0000 /employment/articles/2412200?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412200 Workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette who have been on strike for more than three years may soon be back on the job after offering to return Monday, a week after the Third Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board ruling that the newspaper illegally imposed regressive contract terms on them. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:06:45 +0000 /employment/articles/2411556?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411556 The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said they have scored a "major victory" after a D.C. federal judge blocked the federal government's cancellation of collective bargaining rights for Voice of America workers. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:04:13 +0000 /employment/articles/2412125?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412125 A coalition of 21 states and two business groups told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that lower courts' allegedly premature certification of collective actions drives up the cost of litigation and forces employers into multimillion-dollar settlements, backing Eli Lilly & Co. in a worker's age bias case. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:36:38 +0000 /employment/articles/2411950?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411950 California and two teachers' unions urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a challenge to a state law limiting who gets to know when new public employees have their orientations, disputing that the law discriminates against a group that informs state workers of their right not to be union members. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:36:35 +0000 /employment/articles/2411887?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411887 New Jersey Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the breadth of relief sought in litigation over alleged sexual abuse in the 1970s and '80s by a then-counselor at the Boys and Girls Clubs of America's Hudson County chapter, questioning where the line is drawn if they decide Garden State courts have personal jurisdiction over the nonprofit. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:33:52 +0000 /employment/articles/2412094?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2412094 A McDonald's franchise operator and the operator of Jack in the Box restaurants asked the Washington Supreme Court to clear up the reach of a state law requiring job postings to list pay information in two related cases involving Houston Casualty Co. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:47:18 +0000 /employment/articles/2411783?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411783 A Georgia-based staffing and project management agency has agreed to pay nearly $450,000 to two dozen former workers who accused it of stiffing them on overtime by "slapping a 'salary' label" on their paychecks, according to a deal a federal judge approved Monday. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:47:11 +0000 /employment/articles/2411523?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411523 Given the very real possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will determine in GEO v. Menocal that government contractors do not have collateral immunity, contractors should prepare by building the costs of potential litigation, from discovery through trial, into their contracts and considering other pathways to interlocutory appeals, says Lisa Himes at Rogers Joseph. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:42:49 +0000 /employment/articles/2411971?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411971 The Ninth Circuit recently rejected three constitutional attacks on the National Labor Relations Board in NLRB v. North Mountain Foothills Apartments, leaving open a debate about what remedies the NLRB can award employees and creating a circuit split that could foretell a U.S. Supreme Court resolution, say attorneys at Proskauer. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:36:19 +0000 /employment/articles/2411856?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411856 An Internal Revenue Service agent must be allowed to testify in Tom Goldstein's tax evasion case, the U.S. government said, arguing that the agent's testimony is relevant to proving willfulness in the tax crimes the U.S. Supreme Court attorney and SCOTUSblog publisher was charged with. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:24:34 +0000 /employment/articles/2401160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2401160 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's November session will tackle the legality of the "Pennsylvania Skill" games that have popped up in gas stations and convenience stores, answering the long-simmering question of whether they should be regulated like slot machines. Here are some of the cases the state supreme court will hear during its three-day session in Harrisburg. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:14:00 +0000 /employment/articles/2408002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2408002 Several recent federal court decisions illustrate how parties continue to grapple with the discovery of data in dynamic databases, so counsel involved in these disputes must consider how structured data should be produced consistent with the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, say attorneys at Sidley. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:57:25 +0000 /employment/articles/2411848?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2411848 A California federal judge was right to toss a carpenter's attempt to compel a group of union benefit plans to resume covering him and his coworkers, the plans told the Ninth Circuit, asking the appellate court to keep the suit dead.