Employment

  • Rap mogul Kanye West and his longtime publisher, EMI, have tentatively agreed to a deal to resolve West’s claims that EMI locked him into a “lopsided” business arrangement barred by California labor code, West told a Golden State federal court Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday revealed some of the reasoning behind its decision last month to deny anonymity to one of the attorneys suing Jones Day for alleged gender bias, although the court kept the woman’s identity under wraps since she is no longer part of the case… Read this piece in its…

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  • An American Airlines mechanic told law enforcement that he tried to sabotage one of the company’s planes due to his displeasure with an ongoing dispute between American and its mechanics, according to documents filed Thursday in Florida federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The California State Legislature passed two bills widely viewed as worker-friendly, one of which seeks to curb mandatory arbitration agreements and the other of which aims to help workers whose employers don’t pay them on time… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Trucking company CRST Inc. has urged the California Supreme Court not to honor the Ninth Circuit’s request for the Golden State justices to weigh in on certain meal and rest break policies in the state’s labor laws, according to a letter filed with the appeals court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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