/employment?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:25:29 +0000 /employment/articles/2397706?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397706 New Jersey cannabis products maker Kushi Labs LLC is suing its former employees, claiming they stole confidential trade secrets and took them over to a rival manufacturer, according to a federal lawsuit seeking at least $750,000 in damages. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:22:58 +0000 /employment/articles/2397967?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397967 A former NFL player is fighting to keep his discrimination lawsuit against the league and his former team alive in Colorado federal court, saying his claims that the NFL and the Denver Broncos punished him for requesting a therapeutic-use exemption for synthetic THC are not preempted by the league's collective bargaining agreement. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:20:57 +0000 /employment/articles/2398216?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398216 The family of a man who fell to his death at SK Battery America Inc.'s lithium-ion battery production plant in Commerce, Georgia, on Thursday urged the state's intermediate appellate court to revive the case, arguing a trial court wrongly granted summary judgment to SK and its contractors. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:14:16 +0000 /employment/articles/2398188?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398188 Harvey Weinstein's legal team said his June sexual assault convictions were tainted by juror misconduct, including physical threats and an unfounded bribery claim, arguing in a motion for a new trial that a judge refused to properly investigate. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:51 +0000 /employment/articles/2397985?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397985 A Teamsters local asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to rethink his order permitting RunItOneTime LLC to sell assets to a company managed by one of its founders, saying the bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction to decide that the two weren't essentially the same business. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:06:44 +0000 /employment/articles/2398243?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398243 The federal E-Verify system for employers to check people's eligibility to work in the U.S. has resumed operation, a little over a week after it went offline with the start of the ongoing government shutdown. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:58:27 +0000 /employment/articles/2397679?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397679 The University of Illinois Chicago and a Black former purchasing director have settled discrimination claims she lodged over pay discrepancies between herself and white colleagues with similar or less experience and over early retirement pressures she faced so that a younger, white subordinate could succeed her. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:38:31 +0000 /employment/articles/2397912?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397912 A Georgia federal magistrate judge ordered a proposed class of General Mills employees alleging their plant is run by a white supremacist clique to rewrite their "behemoth" complaint, calling their claims "very troubling" but "nearly impossible" to follow and questioning if they could survive as a class action. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:32:04 +0000 /employment/articles/2397513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397513 The U.S. Senate labor committee on Thursday cleared two of the president's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — including the general counsel pick whose nomination appeared stalled — but withheld a third whose ties to Boeing drew criticism at his confirmation hearing last week. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:02:15 +0000 /employment/articles/2398155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398155 An Australian hemp manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiaries asked a Delaware federal judge Thursday to dismiss or pause a lawsuit filed by a former executive-turned-whistleblower, arguing the case should be deferred under international comity principles. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:35:21 +0000 /employment/articles/2398135?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398135 Affiliate marketing firm BeFrugal said in a lawsuit this week in Massachusetts state court that a senior vice president secretly co-founded a competing company, then steered major clients, including DirecTV and Samsung, to the new business. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:27:33 +0000 /employment/articles/2397943?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397943 An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he violated the union's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by ending its longstanding presence at the agency. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:49:34 +0000 /employment/articles/2398037?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398037 A former provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suing the university in state court warned that without speeding up discovery, the public's right to transparency will suffer from the university's trustees deleting text messages and other evidence. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:03:21 +0000 /employment/articles/2397381?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397381 A former finance executive suing the New York Jets for an alleged retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president now seeks an injunction to stop the organization from publicly disclosing or discussing certain text messages between her and her spouse. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:02:54 +0000 /employment/articles/2397976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397976 Continental Tire is asking North Carolina's top court to review whether more than a dozen workers' compensation cases linked to alleged asbestos exposure at one of its factories should carry on, saying the claimants cannot skirt the results of a bellwether trial. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:56:54 +0000 /employment/articles/2397367?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397367 John Foy & Associates PC told a Georgia federal court that a former firm attorney breached her employment agreement by "moonlighting" with another firm during her employment and then filing a wage suit against John Foy & Associates instead of pursuing her claims in confidential arbitration. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:40:54 +0000 /employment/articles/2398113?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398113 A Colorado retail supplier was hit with a proposed collective action in federal court Thursday from a former employee who said it failed to properly calculate overtime premiums. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:54:47 +0000 /employment/articles/2397670?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397670 An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:36:56 +0000 /employment/articles/2398016?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2398016 A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:31:18 +0000 /employment/articles/2397880?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment/articles/2397880 A California law aimed at increasing the accuracy of the compensation estimates that state employers are required to include in job postings and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes clear that perks such as stock options are considered wages and expands the limitations window for pursuing pay bias claims.