Covid-19 vaccination requirements are fast becoming facts of life in the U.S., spreading business by business even as politicians and privacy advocates rail against them.

Uber Technologies Inc. convinced the San Francisco judge overseeing a misclasification worker suit Friday that he ruled too soon on the issue of whether a recently enacted law on the status of gig-economy drivers is retroactive.

President Joe Biden sought to elevate funding for civil rights offices across more than a half-dozen federal agencies in his first budget proposal, a move advocates say could mark a tangible step toward equality if Congress agrees.

NAES Corp. and a Black waste-processing facility worker who sued alleging a White supervisor subjected him to racist comments and threats, and that the company rescinded the job transfer he obtained to escape the abuse, settled the suit, Connecticut federal court records show.

A Colorado nurse who stole and self-injected fentanyl at work has no right to unemployment benefits even though she couldn’t control the addiction that led to the use and theft, and therefore wasn’t at fault for her termination, a Colorado appeals court said.

A longtime Walmart Inc. employee in Virginia who alleges she was paid less than a male colleague with the same title and denied a chance for promotion into a salaried managerial position lacks evidence of sex discrimination, a federal judge ruled.