Labor Department expands overtime pay eligibility
The regulation raises the threshold at which salaried employees must be paid for extra work.
Experts said the ruling could see judicial challenges, but that workers would nevertheless benefit in the meantime.
The regulation raises the threshold at which salaried employees must be paid for extra work.
Women’s participation in the workforce has recovered from the pandemic. But that masks a lingering crisis among women who lack a college degree.
CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois denied an excavation company’s motion to dismiss a union’s complaint, which aims to enforce two arbitration awards stemming from the company’s hiring of strikebreakers in violation of a collective bargaining agreement. The union has sufficiently alleged its claims, so they survive dismissal.
Delta earned $4.6 billion last year — more than United, American, Southwest and Alaska airlines combined.
The case stems from the termination of seven Starbucks employees at a store in Memphis, Tenn., as they were trying to unionize.
Counties with the highest unemployment rate include Colusa, Imperial and Tulare, while San Mateo County had the lowest.
DALLAS — A federal court in Texas granted back pay and compensatory damages to an employee who says her former employer sexually harassed her on a daily basis, then fired her for not deleting his harassing text messages. The punitive damages she requested are denied because, in combination with her other damages, they would exceed statutory limits.
Tesla posted record deliveries of more than 1.8 million electric vehicles worldwide in 2023, but the value of its shares has eroded quickly this year as EV sales have soften.
The high court declined to implement additional requirements for sex discrimination claims on job transfers.
This is the second formal request for a panel of experts to review a labor dispute since the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement in 2020.