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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has reached a $90,000 deal with a semiconductor manufacturer to resolve a charge alleging the company declined to hire a United States citizen in favor of a temporary visa worker, due alone to his citizenship.
The Fifth Circuit refused to reinstate a former Thomson Reuters worker's suit claiming she was fired for her gender and age, saying she had not shown the company's stated reason for firing her — failing to disclose a personal link to a candidate she backed for a promotion — wasn't legitimate.
A leading pension expert urged a Texas federal judge to toss a challenge led by 25 Republican state attorneys general to block a finalized rule allowing retirement advisers to consider social issues when choosing investments, arguing that the prior rule and new rule aren't that much different.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse the dismissal of an ex-Uber driver's proposed class action alleging the company's rating system is racially biased, arguing that the lower court held his claims to unfair evidentiary standards.
Workers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to accept their challenge to a Second Circuit ruling that said a union pension fund was legally allowed to require them to stop working in order to get benefits, insisting that the suit implicates a circuit split that the high court should iron out.