By Erin Mulvaney | May 29, 2017
Employee-rights lawyers are pressing a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. that alleges the social media company's advertising platform unlawfully permits businesses to promote job, credit and housing opportunities to white, wealthy users and exclude people of color or those in less affluent zip codes.
By C. Ryan Barber | May 26, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces a new challenge in the Ninth Circuit over the Obama-era agency's structure. Uber's paying tens of millions to drivers in New York who were shortchanged on the amount they received for rides. Lobbyists prepare to ramp up a new fight against against the Obama administration's retirement-savings rules that put a new focus on client interest ahead of profit. And Google employees are sharing workplace complaints on an anonymous bulletin board. This is a roundup of regulatory and compliance news from ALM and other publications.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 26, 2017
The case is the latest example of how companies and courts are grappling with protections for employees as technology platforms evolve.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 25, 2017
The EEOC on Wednesday sued IXL Learning Inc. over claims the company violated federal law and retaliated against a transgender employee who'd posted anti-discrimination comments on the job recruiting website Glassdoor.com. The case could serve as the latest example showing how companies and courts are grappling with protections for employees as technology platforms evolve.
By Jason Grant | May 24, 2017
A Manhattan appeals court has struck the answer of New York City and the MTA in a worker-injury case after the defendants failed to produce witnesses and then produced an unprepared witness.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 23, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a recent federal appeals court decision "institutionalizes" the gender pay gap by allowing employers to pay women less than men based on previous salaries.
By Michael Booth | May 23, 2017
New Jersey Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto has proposed a sweeping expansion of the state's 8-year-old paid family leave program.
By Marcia Coyle | May 23, 2017
A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's order that agencies eliminate two existing regulations for each new one will go forward despite the U.S. Justice Department's effort to end it quickly on procedural grounds.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 19, 2017
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s multimillion-dollar agreement this week to compensate employees who were refused benefits for same-sex partners marks one of the first class action settlements brought on behalf of LGBT workers, and it comes at a time when the legal and corporate landscapes are moving toward embracing equal protections.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 19, 2017
Current labor laws and safety nets for workers were developed in a different era and more protections are needed for the growing number of independent workers in the gig economy, a prominent economist said Thursday on Capitol Hill.
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