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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told a federal judge that human resources software firm Workday must face a proposed class action alleging that it violated federal anti-bias laws by using artificial intelligence-powered software to screen out job applicants for other employers for discriminatory reasons.

A federal judge in California on Thursday appeared poised to reject Tesla’s (TSLA.O), opens new tab bid to toss out a U.S. agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of tolerating rampant harassment of Black workers at its Fremont, California assembly plant.

A federal judge has agreed to receive counseling and training about workplace conduct after acknowledging “significant problems” raised by a law clerk who accused the judge of abusing and harassing his chamber’s staff.

Protecting communications in the private workplace has always been challenging.

A California-based raisin and dried fruit maker has agreed to pay $2 million to settle the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) claims that it tolerated widespread sexual harassment of female farm workers.

A federal judge in Texas on Friday struck down a U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that would treat many companies as employers of certain contract and franchise workers and require them to bargain with unions representing them.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Wednesday it would commit $40 million to organizing non-union automobile and EV battery workers in the United States over the next two years.

Amazon.com opens new tab has joined rocket maker SpaceX and grocery chain Trader Joe’s in claiming that a U.S. labor agency’s in-house enforcement proceedings violate the U.S. Constitution, as the retail giant faces scores of cases claiming it interfered with workers’ rights to organize.

A Barclays (BARC.L), opens new tab vice president is suing the British bank for about 230,000 pounds ($290,000), alleging she was passed over for promotion because of racial, religious and sex discrimination.

A federal jury in Manhattan on Monday rejected claims by a former lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell that the law firm had fired him in 2018 for complaining about alleged racial discrimination.

A Black former associate at 1,200-lawyer Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders sued the U.S. law firm on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. federal court, claiming she was discriminated against and then fired for complaining about her treatment.

A federal judge presiding over a rare sexual harassment trial involving the U.S. federal judiciary on Thursday questioned whether a former public defender in North Carolina had sufficiently shown that officials mishandled her workplace misconduct complaint.

The coming year will reveal the full impact of a U.S. labor board’s recent rulings that were seen as providing a major boost to union organizing and whether those changes can withstand legal challenges amid a series of high-profile labor campaigns.

A San Diego-based medical group will pay $6.875 million to settle claims that it violated federal anti-discrimination laws by subjecting physicians to a mandatory retirement age of 75, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Tuesday.

The U.S. federal judiciary’s handling of a former North Carolina public defender’s sexual harassment complaint took center stage on Monday at the start of a trial centered on allegations that her supervisor subjected her to unwanted sexual advances.