The head of Cozen O’Connor says the well-known law firm was fired after it insisted that the client’s board be told of a settlement concerning a sexual harassment claim made…
A Jewish employee at an Illinois Chrysler assembly plant, who alleges he experienced religious and ethnic harassment at work, won a $4.2 million federal jury verdict this week.
Federal law allows wait staff and others who receive tips to be paid less than minimum wage—$4.65 an hour to be specific—as long as they can retain the gratuities they…
A Muslim job seeker claims in a lawsuit that an Abercrombie & Fitch manager refused to hire her, telling her that a head scarf is not part of the “Abercrombie…
In the latest example of a snowballing trend among BigLaw attorneys, three partners at Seyfarth Shaw have left the well-known Chicago-based firm to establish a smaller suburban firm that will,…
A train maintenance worker who stepped off of a 12-inch platform while carrying garbage bags and sprained her ankle won a $160,000 award last week against her employer.
As part of a new draft law that sets standards to protect worker privacy, Germany is considering a ban that would prevent employers from using social networking sites such as…
A federal appeals court gave the green light four months ago to a record-breaking employment discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that has been in the pipeline almost a decade.
A Kentucky coal miner who videotaped leaking seals at work and showed the footage at a federal mine safety hearing has won a reversal of the subsequent disciplinary action taken…
Michael Holston became Hewlett-Packard’s general counsel in 2007 after overseeing a probe into HP’s use of pretexting as part of a corporate effort to stop…
An uptick of government and private enforcement efforts in recent months concerning alleged wage-and-hour violations is now focusing on the health care industry.
A lawyer who oversaw appeals of decisions involving employment benefits has been reassigned after his tips to employers ended up in a newspaper article.
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