Takeaway: Under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), federal jurisdiction may exist over a seemingly minor disciplinary issue if the discipline was allegedly based on anti-union animus. A union establish...

Following the release of a grand jury report critical of the Orange County Power Authority’s executive leadership, Brian Probolsky remains the chief executive officer of the community choice ener...

court decision finding that the U. S. Customs and Immigration Services was right to deny the company's employment-based visa application for an employee. Yogi Metals Group Inc. had asked the Fift...

A $590,000 settlement by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District to end a whistleblower lawsuit has opened a window on allegations of overbilling and racism in the agency. The settlement was finalized i...

Printer-friendly Most employers know the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and requires reasonable accommodations of empl...

The U.S. and California chambers of commerce told the Ninth Circuit that a California law banning mandatory arbitration agreements can't stand in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision,...

On June 13, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Johnson v. WinCo Foods Holdings, Inc, et al. that class members who were not yet employed by WinCo were not entitled to compensation f...

What would you do if you were presented with union cards signed by a majority of your employees? If you've been taught well, you'd know to not look at the cards and to demand that an election be ...

The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 27 said it will reconsider President Joe Biden's executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, setting aside a ...