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18 states challenge EEOC guidance on harassment based on gender identity

Dive Brief: Tennessee — along with 17 other states — filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging the agency’s recently released harassment guidance unlawfully expands Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According ...

USPS to pay $141K after firing worker for reporting an injury, judge rules

Dive Brief: The U.S. Postal Service violated the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 when it fired a probationary worker in retaliation for reporting a workplace injury, a district judge held May 10 in the U.S. District Court for ...

HR leaders can play a critical guiding role in skills-based transformation

As skills-based hiring becomes more popular, HR leaders will serve a vital role in helping companies move past the theory and promises of being a skills-based organization and toward a more realistic transition, according to a May 9 report from ...

Red Hat’s DEI program was discriminatory, lawsuit says

Dive Brief: A former senior director at enterprise software company Red Hat said he was fired in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for being White and male after he spoke out against the company’s push to ...

2024 will be the year ‘AI at work gets real.’ But are employers ready?

2024 will be “the year AI at work gets real,” according to a May 8 report from Microsoft and LinkedIn. But employers may not be ready for exactly how real tech disruption may get, the report noted. The big struggle ...

Class-action suit claims Nike failed to provide pumping breaks, lactation room

Dive Brief: Nike violated California’s labor codes and unfair competition law when it failed to accommodate postpartum and nursing female workers, a former retail employee alleged in a class-action lawsuit May 8. According to the suit, filed in the California Superior ...

CSX Transportation allegedly punished employees for using FMLA leave on holidays, weekends

Dive Brief: CSX Transportation allegedly inflates the amount of time employees use for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act and baselessly fires them for purportedly abusing the FMLA if they take leave on holidays and weekends, a group ...

A new overtime threshold takes effect in mere weeks. HR should assess its impact now.

Holly L. Sutton is a partner at Farella Braun + Martel and chair of its Employment Law Group. Kevin L. Jones is a employment law senior associate. Farella is a Northern California law firm based in San Francisco. Last month, ...

Amazon CEO’s comments ‘threatened employees,’ NLRB judge says

Dive Brief: The National Labor Relations Board ruled May 1 that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s comments about Amazon workers and their union activity violated the National Labor Relations Act. The ruling resolved charges initially filed in 2022 and consolidated in ...

Vast majority of Gen Z tech workers say they’d consider new career opportunities

About 90% of Gen Z tech workers under age 25 in North America would consider new career opportunities in 2024, according to a May 8 report from Lorien, a global tech recruitment firm, prompting fears of a brain drain.  In ...