Employment
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Federal authorities on Wednesday turned up the heat in their investigation of a pay-to-play conspiracy between United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executives, raiding various sites connected to the union, including homes belonging to current and former union presidents… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has nominated Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Eugene Scalia to head the U.S. Department of Labor, bucking Democrats who criticized the attorney’s “patent hostility” toward workers’ rights…. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Nokia Corp. asked a Texas federal court Wednesday to toss a lawsuit brought by a former high-ranking in-house lawyer for the telecom giant who alleges she was unjustly fired after facing age and gender bias that left her “broken”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Writers Guild of America will wage its legal battle against several major talent agencies in federal court, dropping a state-level suit and filing counterclaims on Monday in federal suits brought by the talent shops over the contested practice of agents collecting payments from pairing TV writers with studios… Read this piece in its entirety…
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A Florida federal judge on Friday handed an early victory to Walmart in a workplace gender bias case, saying he’d seen hints of “something rotten” in the retailer’s corporate culture, but that it wasn’t enough for the workers’ claims to pass legal muster… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 