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Ex-film commissioner tied to bringing Sundance to Colorado sues over termination
79-year-old Donald Zuckerman claims that amid pressure to retire, he told his supervisor he planned to remain at his job until the Centennial State hosted the Sundance Film Festival for the first time in 2027.
US jobless aid filings rise to 229,000 last week, remain historically low despite Iran war headwinds
Most analysts expect officials at the Federal Reserve to stand pat on its benchmark interest rate when they meet next week.
DOJ concludes employment disparate impact rules unconstitutional
The Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion, that employment policies must have discriminatory intent to be illegal, guts a decades-old interpretation of the Civil Rights Act that conservatives linked to DEI policies.
Unemployment benefits wrongly denied
HONOLULU — The Hawaii Supreme Court found that a part-time airport guide was wrongly denied unemployment benefits after she was fired for refusing to sign a revised handbook and had two customer service complaints against her. These circumstances do not amount to misconduct that would disqualify her from benefits.
May jobs report laps expectations, as unemployment remains steady
Economists expected a decent jobs report for May, but what they got outpaced even the top ends of their forecasts.
Ninth Circuit says fed rules trump California bus driver rest break regulations
The Golden State had sought a review of a 2020 decision by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that preempted state rules.
When a job move feels like a job cut, EU court says it counts
Employers cannot evade collective dismissal obligations by imposing drastic workplace relocations and treating workers’ refusals as personal decisions, Europe’s highest court said.
US jobless aid filings, a proxy for layoffs, hit highest level since Iran war began in February
Though U.S. employers delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs in April, the Iran war has injected a large degree of uncertainty about the broader U.S. economy and labor market.
Religious discrimination or punishment for bigotry?
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama federal court granted summary judgment to a county sheriff and dismissed a former deputy’s religious discrimination and free speech claims. A coworker said the former deputy’s personal Facebook contained “numerous anti LGBT and misogynistic posts,” then former deputy explained to a sergeant that he was a Christian first and a deputy second, and alleged that the supervisor then referred to him as “Bible-thumping asshole.” The ex-deputy cannot “simply use ‘religious belief’ as a shield against the effects” of expression “not exclusively religious in nature” that may negatively affect the workplace and cause public concern.
Amazon workers had ‘no duty’ to help lone contractor
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana granted summary judgment to Amazon on a contract maintenance worker’s negligence, vicarious liability and premises liability lawsuit he filed after he “suddenly lost consciousness and began convulsing on the floor” while working alone in a warehouse. His fall activated a security alarm, but Amazon personnel were absent from their assigned positions, resulting in a half-hour delay in emergency aid, “during which time he repeatedly struck his head and back.” The Amazon employees had “no duty” to come to his aid and the court found no law governing a warehouse owner’s liability for “non-work related medal emergencies experienced by independent contractors on its premises.”
US job openings climbed to 7.6 million in April despite economic fallout from the Iran war
The nation also doesn’t need as many new jobs as it used to. The Trump’s immigration crackdown and Baby Boomer retirements mean that fewer people are competing for work.