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The Procter & Gamble Co. and thousands of job and internship applicants with temporary work authorization under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program asked a Florida federal judge to approve...

Activistas proinmigrantes dan un paso más en la ampliación de una demanda colectiva que desafía la política de un banco nacional, que le niega servicios a los beneficiarios de DACA (Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia), así como a otros inmigrantes.

En julio de 2020, MALDEF (Fondo Educativo y de Defensa Legal México-Americano) presentó una demanda colectiva contra Discover Bank en un tribunal estatal de California impugnando la denegación por parte del banco de préstamos estudiantiles y otros servicios relacionados a solicitantes que no son ciudadanos estadounidenses o...

• The app encourages ‘hyper superficiality’ in hiring
• Age discrimination also a top-line concern for attorneys

Employers like Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., and Target Corp. are turning to TikTok to recruit and hire workers, raising concerns among employment law attorneys who advise that the practice isn’t all fun and games.

TikTok, the popular video-based social media platform, debuted a pilot program this month with its own website for applying to jobs via the app, which provides resources, tips, and examples of quality...

Outten & Golden LLP, By Tammy Marzigliano, Pawanpreet Dhaliwal, and Brittany Arnold

Daryl Woodruff was an interim superintendent and contender for a leadership position at PG&E. He was fired for fabricated performance issues after he spoke his conscience twice. First, he stood up for himself and his colleagues by complaining of race discrimination to the company’s human resources department. Second, he reported his good faith belief that other PG&E leaders had failed to inspect defective, potentially explosive electrical transformers and lied about it,...

The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday said it was doing away with a Trump-era joint employer rule for determining when multiple employers are jointly liable for labor law violations, months...

SAN FRANCISCO –  Outten & Golden has joined MALDEF in expanding a class-action lawsuit challenging a national bank’s policy of denying loans to DACA recipients and other immigrants because of their citizenship or immigration status, according to documents filed in federal court last week.

The lawsuit alleges that Discover Bank limited the access of non-U.S. citizens such as DACA recipients to student, personal and home mortgage and equity loans in violation of federal and state civil rights laws, including 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the California Unruh Civil...

Unlike a public company, Private Equity (PE) portfolio company executives will be negotiating terms and conditions of employment that are driven by time and performance and achieving growth and liquidity. The concept of an "exit" and liquidity upon an exit are the driving forces in a management team's compensation structure.

Pilot says he developed app on his own time with $100k of his own money.

A pilot for Delta Airlines is suing his own company for $1 billion, alleging that it stole an app he created.

Captain Craig Alexander, an 11-year veteran who flies 757s, developed a messaging app called QrewLive that facilitated flight crew communications. He says he pitched the app to Delta management, who, after allegedly expressing interest, ultimately turned him down before releasing a similar app of its own.

Alexander says he worked on the project on his own time and spent $100,000...

We can't celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday on one end of the spectrum and still have in our Constitution of the United States of America an exception that allows for slavery for people who have been convicted of crime," Williams told Law360 recently.

People incarcerated for criminal offenses who work in facilities' maintenance or in state correctional industries to make goods, like eyeglass lenses or license plates, are not constitutionally entitled to minimum wage. This arrangement is a vestige of the 13th Amendment's abolition of...