The U.S. Supreme Court may have rejected a federal rule mandating Covid-19 vaccinations or testing, but businesses threatened by omicron’s spread might be forced to implement one anyway to protect the workers they have and keep factories open.

Judge Gregg Costa will resign in August as one of the far outnumbered Democratic-appointed jurists in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice on the U.S. Courts website.

A federal appeals court on Thursday explored whether to remand a state’s challenge of federal restrictions on how to spend $350 billion in Covid-19 aid back to the U.S District Court that dismissed it.

Matilde Ek’s claim that her husband died after he contracted Covid-19 she got from working on a See’s Candies factory assembly line will move forward, signaling that employers may have to defend such wrongful death cases despite state workers’ compensation shields.

Microsoft Corp., responding to a push from shareholders, has hired a law firm to review its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and scrutinize a 2019 board investigation of co-founder Bill Gates.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the federal government in its dispute with a National Guard member over retirement benefits for so-called dual status workers categorized as both civilian and military employees.