A U.S. Army veteran who alleges he used ineffective earplugs made by 3M Co. and its subsidiary Aearo Technologies LLC was awarded $1.7 million in damages from the companies for his hearing loss and tinnitus, a federal jury in Florida decided Friday in the third and last case of a round of test trials.

A federal judge in Ohio denied a health-care staffing company’s bid to dismiss human trafficking charges against it leveled by a former employee.

The controversial California labor law known as the Private Attorneys General Act has found a foothold outside the Golden State, with Maine lawmakers approving a similar bill Friday.

DePaul University was hit with wage and hour suit Friday in the Northern District of Illinois by a former athletic department employee who says she wasn’t paid for weekend work and was misclassified as a manager to avoid paying overtime.

The former membership and marketing director for a Cincinnati country club faced sex discrimination and harassment while working there, and retaliation for reporting it, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.

AscensionPoint Recovery Services LLC violated workplace discrimination law when it insisted a Christian employee submit to fingerprinting and failed to consider other alternatives before firing him when he objected on religious grounds, the EEOC charged in a federal lawsuit in Minnesota.