Walmart has agreed just days before a trial was set to start in Kansas federal court to pay two deaf workers $300,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the retail giant said it couldn't afford to provide the employees with on-the-job interpreters.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up an Oregon distillery's challenge to how federal courts weigh whether to affirm National Labor Relations Board decisions, declining Monday to place a case on its docket that questioned what is known as the substantial evidence standard of review.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review whether the time that home health aides spend traveling between clients' homes is compensable in a case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.