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Jones Day Hit by Data Breach as Vendor Accellion Hack Widens

Jones Day Hit by Data Breach as Vendor Accellion Hack Widens

Bloomberg Law News — Law firm Jones Day says hackers got their hands on confidential client data and firm communications when an outside vendor's file transfer system was breached. Jones Day is the second major law firm in two weeks to have private data exposed as a result of a breach at Accellion, which provides file transfer and other services for a number of firms. Goodwin Procter said Feb.
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Trump Tax Saga Highlights Line Between Lawyering, Complicity

Trump Tax Saga Highlights Line Between Lawyering, Complicity

Bloomberg Law News — A court order forcing some of Donald Trump's former top tax lawyers to give thousands of documents to investigators shows the risk attorneys face when their own actions go under a microscope. Judge Arthur F. Engoron last week ordered law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP to give New York Attorney General Letitia James reams of communications with former President Trump and his company.
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Jones Day Bucks Big Law Trend of Firms Fleeing From Trump (1)

Jones Day Bucks Big Law Trend of Firms Fleeing From Trump (1)

Bloomberg Law News — The list of lawyers former President Donald Trump can call upon for his legal battles, including a looming Senate impeachment trial and tax probes in New York, is shrinking. Seyfarth Shaw and Morgan Lewis became the latest firms in a growing list to say they're cutting ties with the former president and his companies.
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Seyfarth Drops Trump Companies as Client After Capitol Riot (2)

Seyfarth Drops Trump Companies as Client After Capitol Riot (2)

Bloomberg Law News — Law firm Seyfarth Shaw has severed ties with President Donald Trump's businesses in response to the public outcry over his role in stoking violent protests at the U.S. Capitol. The firm's executive committee decided in a Wednesday meeting to drop Trump companies as a client.
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NLRB Watchdog Condemns Bias Probe as Attack on His Authority

NLRB Watchdog Condemns Bias Probe as Attack on His Authority

Bloomberg Law — The National Labor Relations Board's political leader and its inspector general are locked in a standoff over pending discrimination complaints against the inspector general and an unanswered legal question he's raising in his defense: Who has the power to watch the watchdog?
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Lyft Offers to Settle New York Driver Classification Disputes

Lyft Offers to Settle New York Driver Classification Disputes

Bloomberg Law — Lyft Inc. has offered to pay New York ride-share drivers about $100 to $600 each to settle a lawsuit alleging the company misclassified them as contractors instead of employees, but the deal would require the drivers to keep quiet about it.
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AI Hiring Could Mean Robot Discrimination Will Head to Courts

AI Hiring Could Mean Robot Discrimination Will Head to Courts

Bloomberg Law News — As companies turn to artificial intelligence for help making hiring and promotion decisions, contract negotiations between employers and vendors selling algorithms are being dominated by an untested legal question: Who's liable when a robot discriminates? The predictive strength of any algorithm is based at least in part on the information it is fed by human sources.
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Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey (3)

Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey (3)

Bloomberg Law — Uber Technologies Inc. owes New Jersey about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state's labor department said. Uber and subsidiary Rasier LLC were assessed $523 million in past-due taxes over the last four years, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said in a pair of letters to the companies.
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Oracle Owes $400M to Women, Black, Asian Workers, DOL Says (1)

Oracle Owes $400M to Women, Black, Asian Workers, DOL Says (1)

bloomberglaw.com — Oracle Corp. shorted women and minority workers $400 million in wages by paying them less than other employees, steering them into jobs at lower-level positions, and imposing an "extreme preference" for immigrant visa holders, the Labor Department said in a new legal filing.
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Labor Board Member Cleared on Ethics Question

Labor Board Member Cleared on Ethics Question

bloomberglaw.com — Embattled National Labor Relations Board Member William Emanuel (R) has been cleared to participate in drafting a closely watched new "joint employer" regulation over concerns about his former law firm's ties to the issue, the board's chairman told Bloomberg Law Nov. 9.
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Democrats to Probe Labor Department on Tips, Child Labor

Democrats to Probe Labor Department on Tips, Child Labor

Bloomberg Law — House Democrats plan to use their new majority to bring Labor Department officials in for hearings on a botched regulation for tipped workers and a move to allow teenagers to work in health care jobs, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) told Bloomberg Law Nov. 7.
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DOJ: Businesses Can Discriminate Against Transgender Workers (1) (1)

DOJ: Businesses Can Discriminate Against Transgender Workers (1) (1)

bloomberglaw.com — The Justice Department today told the U.S. Supreme Court that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity without violating federal law. Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the high court that a civil rights law banning sex discrimination on the job doesn't cover transgender bias.
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TV Interview: Cisco Allegedly Favored Visa Holders Over U.S. Workers

TV Interview: Cisco Allegedly Favored Visa Holders Over U.S. Workers

Bloomberg News — Bloomberg TV interview.
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Uber Still Wants Rider Rape Case Decided Privately

Uber Still Wants Rider Rape Case Decided Privately

Bloomberg Law — Uber Technologies Inc. recently said it wouldn't force riders who allege sexual assault by drivers to take their cases to arbitration. Later the same day, the company asked a judge to make a group of women do just that with some of their claims.
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Has Labor Board 'Protected Workers Right Out of a Job'? (1) (1)

Has Labor Board 'Protected Workers Right Out of a Job'? (1) (1)

bloomberglaw.com — Maybe so, NLRB chairman says Ring sees overlap between board's work and Trump 'jobs, jobs, jobs' policy Says he is 'somewhat skeptical' on conflicts question related to fellow member's former law firm The National Labor Relations Board swung so far in favor of workers' rights during the Obama administration that it may have stunted job growth, Chairman John Ring (R) said June 6.
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White House Leaves Harassment Guidance in Limbo

White House Leaves Harassment Guidance in Limbo

bloomberglaw.com — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent the White House updated guidance on combating workplace harassment about a month after reports of sexual assaults by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein launched the #MeToo movement. Half a year later, the guidance is still on hold.
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Labor Board Republicans May Decide Fate of Boeing Union (1) (1)

Labor Board Republicans May Decide Fate of Boeing Union (1) (1)

bloomberglaw.com — Days before workers voted to organize at a Boeing plant in South Carolina, a National Labor Relations Board ethics official made a decision that could shape the company's legal fight to keep unions off that campus. The vote was a victory for the International Association of Machinists.
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Uber Still Wants Rider Rape Case Decided Privately

Uber Still Wants Rider Rape Case Decided Privately

Bloomberg BNA — Uber Technologies Inc. recently said it wouldn't force riders who allege sexual assault by drivers to take their cases to arbitration. Later the same day, the company asked a judge to make a group of women do just that with some of their claims.
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Rent-A-Center Prevails in Transgender Bias Case

Rent-A-Center Prevails in Transgender Bias Case

Bloomberg Law — EEOC loses first jury trial on transgender job discrimination Agency at odds with Justice Department over whether LGBT bias is sex discrimination The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn't prove that a Rent-A-Center store in Illinois fired a worker because she transitioned to female from male, a jury decided May 18.
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This Trump Ethics Probe Has Lawyers' Attention

This Trump Ethics Probe Has Lawyers' Attention

biglawbusiness.com — Labor board member asked to sit out cases even indirectly affecting former firm, clients * Boeing-related case threatened by recusal issue An under-the-radar ethics dilemma brewing at the National Labor Relations Board could have a bigger impact on Trump administration policy and personnel than other allegations of high jinks getting lots more attention.
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Democrats Want Answers From Labor Dept. on Tip Sharing Secret

Democrats Want Answers From Labor Dept. on Tip Sharing Secret

Bloomberg BNA — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and other leading Democrats are calling on the Labor Department to halt its new tip sharing proposal and explain why the DOL didn't tell the public about an internal analysis showing the move could cost workers billions of dollars.
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The Coca-Cola Hack and Who's on Hook for Office Cybersecurity

The Coca-Cola Hack and Who's on Hook for Office Cybersecurity

Bloomberg BNA — Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have...
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VIDEO: Skills Gap 'Very Real,' Former Commerce Secretary Says

VIDEO: Skills Gap 'Very Real,' Former Commerce Secretary Says

Bloomberg BNA — Businesses are having a hard time finding the talent they need for the jobs of today, even as technology is changing the kinds of positions that will be open in the future, former Commerce...
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Senate Tax Bill Said to Cover Contractor Classification

Senate Tax Bill Said to Cover Contractor Classification

Bloomberg BNA — Senate Republicans want to protect businesses that mistakenly classify workers as independent contractors as part of their upcoming tax bill, sources familiar with the legislation told Bloomberg Law...
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