In a June 2023 complaint, more than a dozen former-baseball scouts named 30 baseball teams that blacklisted players due to their age.
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois federal court’s decision to throw out most of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s claims on behalf of Black nursing home workers who say they worked in a racially hostile working environment. The appellate judges ruled that whatever insensitivity and harassment the employees faced at work, none of it rose to the level of pervasiveness or severity necessary to sustain the lawsuit.
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal court in Texas dismissed the counterclaims brought by Louis Black, the co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest (SXSW), against a former employee who sued him for allegedly coercing her into sex and withholding her salary when she refused to marry him. His countersuit alleges that she stole “several valuable comic books and pulp magazines” from his garage, but the counterclaim is inappropriate because the legal questions in the suit and countersuit “contain no overlap.”
The Protect the Ball Act would give the NCAA protection from litigation and allow the association and conferences to regulate things like recruiting and the way college athletes are compensated.
The petition seeks to eliminate subminimum wages for tipped employees, such as front-of-house restaurant workers.
More than 500 workers reported incidents of harassment, discrimination and other issues.
A slew of complaints filed by cast members of the franchise say producers created an unsafe work environment by plying them with booze.
HOUSTON — The U.S. Justice Department hit the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with a lawsuit after a prison clerk complained she was barred from wearing a head covering for religious reasons.
Job benefits for workers at Uber and DoorDash appear likely to be decided in this November’s election.
The FTC’s decision will leave employers scrambling in the short term and could lead to major changes in how companies operate in the future.
The NCAA is facing several other antitrust challenges to compensation and transfer rules.
