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After working at a call center for two decades, Linda Bradley's job came to an end about a year and a half ago. Since her layoff, she's combed online job sites every day looking for work — without much luck.

Bradley, who is 45 and lives near Columbus, Ohio, began suspecting age discrimination after someone at her union mentioned how recruiters often target online ads at younger candidates. "I thought to myself, 'Oh, that's why I wasn't seeing some of the ads that my daughter has seen on her Facebook,' " she says.

Her daughter, who is 26, got hired right away. Bradley eventually took the only...

Workers’ lawyers are uniting around arbitration as the new reality, following a recent Supreme Court decision that upended the business model for suing employers.

The justices ruled in May that companies may require workers to sign arbitration agreements waiving their rights to file a class or collective action. The decision, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, is widely recognized as a major victory for employers. They now have the high court’s blessing to shield themselves from costly and sometimes embarrassing class actions.

Several big plaintiffs’ firms are fighting back by filing hundreds of...

Businesses in the Golden State are bracing for an uptick in wage-and-hour suits following the California Supreme Court's recent ruling that a federal doctrine blocking workers from suing over brief periods of unpaid time didn't doom a proposed class action against Starbucks Corp., but a key question still lingering after the ballyhooed decision means a flood of successful class actions is far from inevitable.

Attorneys for workers have praised the court's partial rejection of the de minimis doctrine, saying it paves the way for suits bringing wage-skimmers to justice. Meanwhile, some advisers...

A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Wells Fargo Advisors LLC’s challenge to an arbitrator’s decision letting workers pursue class arbitration of their unpaid overtime claims, calling the company out for trying to escape the same binding proceedings it imposes on its employees.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni refused to vacate an arbitrator’s findings that language in two workers’ contracts with Wells Fargo lets them bring their claims on behalf of a class, saying the decision doesn’t fit into the narrow range of circumstances that open arbitration rulings up to court review.

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Amy F. Shulman, whose practice has covered a wide range of labor and employment law litigation and transactional matters, has joined Outten & Golden LLP's New York office as Counsel, the firm said today.

Ms. Shulman, who has joined Outten & Golden's Individual Practice Area, has negotiated employment-related agreements for executives and professionals, counseled individuals in employment and other workplace disputes, and litigated whistleblower, discrimination, retaliation, contract, workplace tort, and wage-and-hour actions. She also has represented private and public-sector unions in...

Outten & Golden partner Jahan Sagafi has been recognized one of the Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in California.  The annual award is given to 75 California-based attorneys for their contributions to the law and the community. Daily Journal’s list draws from plaintiffs’, defense, government, and nonprofit lawyers.  Mr. Sagafi was included for the third year in a row.

The Daily Journal highlighted Mr. Sagafi’s work on del Toro Lopez v Uber Technologies, where he recently won a $10 million settlement with ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. This past...

In a nascent trend that could impact a range of class actions in the employment, securities, consumer protection and product liability spheres, some diligent judges are beginning to track settlements after granting final approval — adding a so-called third phase of review to ensure class members get the relief they are due.

One recent example is U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria’s work overseeing Wells Fargo’s $142 million settlement with an estimated 3.5 million customers who were charged fees for accounts they never authorized. During a case management conference in March, after the...

As the Senate considers Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, including his potential impact on legal protections for workers, it is useful to reflect on the court’s three 5-4 anti-worker decisions of the last term. The court’s decisions in Janus v. AFSCME , Lewis v. Epic Systems  and Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , each of which broke with norms of judicial restraint, could not have happened without — and in many ways were foreordained by — the norm-shattering decision of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to kill President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge...

A South Carolina federal judge Friday rejected a Fluor Corp. attempt to escape a suit alleging that it failed to give workers sufficient Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice before a Westinghouse Electric Co. nuclear reactor project shut down last year.

U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs rejected the subcontractor’s motion on the pleadings, saying references plaintiff’s counsel made at a February hearing regarding the role SCANA Corp. played in the shutdown of the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station project did not waive their right to present evidence about...

[Newsletter excerpt] During Justice Anthony Kennedy’s three decades on the bench, he authored important and controversial decisions, including significant rulings supporting LGBT rights. Kennedy’s retirement comes at a particularly dynamic moment for these issues.

Federal appeals courts are divided over the scope of federal civil rights laws as they apply to LGBT workplace protections. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and gay rights advocates have pushed a broad interpretation of federal civil rights laws that includes “sexual orientation” as a form sex discrimination. Trump’s...