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Kroger faces FMLA, PUMP Act lawsuit after allegedly transferring employee returning from parental leave
An assistant store manager alleged retaliation and a lack of accommodations for pregnancy and pumping.
By Caroline Colvin • Sept. 12, 2025 -
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UPS worker’s age, sex bias claims can’t overcome company’s harassment findings
The plaintiff alleged he was fired just two months shy of his retirement plan vesting, but a female co-worker reported an “unsettling experience” during a training session with him.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 12, 2025 -
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8 religious rights stories that define summer 2025
Employees are filing a variety of lawsuits that challenge workplace policies and bring sensitive issues like bodily autonomy, respect for others and free expression to the fore.
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 11, 2025 -
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OpinionHR records in the cloud can create a perfect storm
A management-side attorney says she is increasingly seeing cases where decisive documents — ones that could have resolved a dispute early — were not retained.
By Karina B. Sterman, Esq. • Sept. 11, 2025 -
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FTC warns healthcare companies about restrictive noncompete contracts
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has sent letters to an unspecified number of large healthcare employers and staffing firms asking them to review their employment contracts.
By Rebecca Pifer • Sept. 11, 2025 -
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Texas A&M fires professor after viral video, raising free speech concerns
The termination came the day after a state lawmaker shared the clip and accused the professor of perpetuating "DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination.”
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Appeals court rules that Georgia county can exclude gender-affirming surgeries from insurance coverage
In a rehearing, the court reversed its May 2024 opinion, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial U.S. v. Skrmetti decision from June.
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OpinionEarned wage access should be free
“This industry simply cannot continue to charge employees to access their pay,” writes a fintech founder. “We cannot expect employers to deduct these fees from paychecks through payroll.”
By Jason Lee • Sept. 10, 2025 -
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Merck manager’s awkward whispers didn’t constitute harassment, judge rules
The plaintiff, who spoke with a “heavy African accent,” said a manager’s comment that his voice is “very specific” was discriminatory.
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6 labor and employment issues that are in flux, according to law firm Littler
“In less than nine months, the new administration has transformed more than six decades of labor and employment policy,” Littler Workplace Policy Institute experts said.
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Bojangles told worker she was ‘not a good fit’ because of pregnancy, disability, per lawsuit
Employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to workers who are pregnant or have a disability, unless doing so would pose an undue hardship.
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Judge tosses EEOC long COVID lawsuit, finding worker never made disability clear
Use of leave as a disability accommodation is often a thorny issue for employers to navigate.
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 8, 2025 -
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FTC drops Biden-era noncompete ban but promises continued enforcement
Industries “plagued by thickets of noncompete agreements” will soon see warning letters from the agency, its chairman said Friday.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 8, 2025 -
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3M successfully showed undue hardship in religious bias vaccination case
The company established it would become less competitive if employees who promote its medical devices could not work in person at healthcare facilities, according to a court ruling.
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Firefighters’ vaccine exemption lawsuit fails SCOTUS’ updated religious test, court says
The lawsuit is a test of the high court’s Groff v. DeJoy precedent, which clarified the standard by which religious accommodations must be evaluated.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 5, 2025 -
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Former EEOC employee files charge alleging transgender bias at the agency
The employee said he was allegedly forced to “create business processes and technical tools that were being weaponized to facilitate discrimination against transgender employees” like himself.
By Ginger Christ • Sept. 5, 2025 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Workers aren’t surprised by executives’ affairs
Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including how many HR professionals expect to see their department head count grow or remain the same.
By Ginger Christ • Sept. 4, 2025 -
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DOL says it’s thinking about overtime as it provides timelines for regulations
The agency published its full Spring 2025 regulatory agenda Thursday, nearly a month after apparently removing an earlier version from a White House website.
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Judge expands pregnancy law exceptions for Catholic bishop group
The group cannot be required “to make accommodations for abortions, contraception, sterilization, artificial reproductive technologies, or surrogacy” in violation of their religious beliefs, the court said.
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 4, 2025 -
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Colorado delays AI law implementation amid backlash
The move comes amid a growing national debate over AI laws that are piling up at the state level, creating a complex patchwork of requirements for businesses.
By Alexei Alexis • Sept. 3, 2025 -
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Manager’s ‘single ethnic slur’ not enough to grant worker win in bias case
The case involves a legal doctrine — cat’s paw theory — invoked by federal courts in numerous employment discrimination challenges.
By Ryan Golden • Sept. 3, 2025 -
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Jury finds in favor of Chicago transit worker denied COVID-19 vaccine exemption
The case is similar to that of another Catholic worker who cited the vaccine’s use of aborted fetal cells in her request for a religious exemption.
By Emilie Shumway • Sept. 2, 2025 -
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Auto dealership will pay $275,000 to settle claims it segregated roles by sex
The car dealership segregated talent by sex and cited stereotypes as their reasoning, EEOC said in a lawsuit.
By Caroline Colvin • Sept. 2, 2025 -
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Workplaces can foster empathy to improve harassment intervention, study says
Women tended to report higher empathy toward workplace sexual harassment targets, which made them less likely to ignore complaints, researchers said.
By Carolyn Crist • Sept. 2, 2025 -
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Judge allows Workday to avoid disclosing full customer list in bias lawsuit
The company said the plaintiffs’ proposal that individuals opting into the collective action be able to select employers from such a list would cause unfair prejudice.
By Ryan Golden • Aug. 28, 2025
