NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court’s dismissal of a disabled Black employee’s retaliation and discrimination claims against Navarro County, where he worked in the drug trafficking division. He was in remission from cancer that was treated with throat surgery, so he asked to work remotely in 2020 to avoid contracting Covid-19, but his supervisor denied this and he was placed on leave after complaining about it. The lower court erred in determining the employee hadn’t produced enough evidence of his claims.
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal court in Maine dismissed all claims brought against the town of Westbrook and several of its officials, who were sued by a former employee for sex discrimination. His supervisor allegedly treated him differently not because he was a man, but because he replaced the supervisor’s paramour, which would not constitute sex discrimination if true.
Armed groups in Eastern Congo have fought for years for control of the mines and the valuable minerals in them.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit granted the National Labor Relations Board’s application for enforcement of its order directing Starbucks to cease and desist from its failure and refusal to recognize and bargain with a union. The NLRB held that this refusal constitutes an unfair labor practice. Starbucks says the union conducted a mail-in vote instead of an in-person election, as it should have; the NLRB says this decision was an appropriate exercise of the union’s regional director’s discretion.
Joe Biden is using economic arguments to portray Donald Trump as out of touch with workers' concerns.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana denied Walmart’s request to dismiss, as time-barred, an overnight stocker’s suit for malicious prosecution and defamation. The store had her arrested for twice purchasing multiple packages of newly marked-down meat after her shift ended, a violation of Walmart employment policies. She says her behavior was not criminal because she had relabeled the packages of meat with store-ordered lower prices, and did not alter the labels she was told to put on the products.
The study that one-third of older adults with credit card debt carry a balance of more than $10,000 and 12% have a balance of $20,000 or more.
Experts said the ruling could see judicial challenges, but that workers would nevertheless benefit in the meantime.
The regulation raises the threshold at which salaried employees must be paid for extra work.
Women’s participation in the workforce has recovered from the pandemic. But that masks a lingering crisis among women who lack a college degree.
CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois denied an excavation company’s motion to dismiss a union’s complaint, which aims to enforce two arbitration awards stemming from the company’s hiring of strikebreakers in violation of a collective bargaining agreement. The union has sufficiently alleged its claims, so they survive dismissal.
