An AT&T unit in California won’t face a former employee’s claims that the company violated public policy and state labor laws in firing him after extended absences due to an alleged work-related stress disability, a state appeals court ruled.

A Pennsylvania construction company lost its bid to dismiss a unionized employee’s proposed class claims seeking unpaid overtime under state law and must now litigate the suit in state court, after a federal judge ruled federal preemption principles didn’t apply.

United Airlines Holdings Inc.’s pilots agreed to accept lower minimum pay guarantees to prevent almost 4,000 of their members from being put on furlough.

Allowing a group of Ikea employees to participate without an attorney in three lawsuits alleging discrimination against workers 40-and-over as a class would present manageability issues, and the group must retain class counsel or their own lawyers to remain plaintiffs, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled.

Central Clinical Labs didn’t get permission to collect employee fingerprint scans and failed to pay workers time-and-a-half for overtime, two former employees alleged in a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Illinois.

Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act provides a private cause of action to workers, allowing state-sanctioned, card-carrying medical pot patients to sue their employers for alleged discrimination based on their lawful use of the drug, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled on an issue of first impression.

The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved a record clawback of $40 million in tax incentives from General Motors in response to the auto giant’s pullout from its Lordstown plant.