A former applicant for the Justice Department’s honors program has filed a suit that contends his First Amendment rights were violated when he was denied a job because of his…
Willful violations by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of wage-and-hour rules in Minnesota could require the mega-retailer to pay $2 billion in penalties for more than 2 million such infractions involving $6.5…
Attorney Maureen Duggan wasn’t happy with her boss at a state agency in Connecticut. But she was afraid that openly complaining about him could put her job at risk.
National employment boutique Jackson Lewis has opened an office in Albuquerque, N.M., acquiring four lawyers from the city’s Noeding & Jarrett in order to do so.
Add another group of workers to the ever-increasing ranks of those claiming to have been misclassified (and underpaid) as independent contractors: exotic dancers.
A judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a temporary restraining order to block the ouster of seven lawyers from the District of Columbia Attorney General’s office.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 opinion that the use of age as a factor in Kentucky’s retirement plan does not violate the federal age bias law.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 7-1 that employers, rather than employees, have the burden of proving layoffs did not discriminate against older workers in disparate impact lawsuits.