The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is rescinding a dozen guidance documents, as well as other agency information, that “have been superseded by legislation, court decisions, or newer and more complete guidance” or is otherwise “outdated,” the agency said Oct. 18.

Business trade groups urged Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, to confirm Keith Sonderling to the remaining Republican slot on the five-member panel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg Law.

A nursing staffing company will pay $2.75 million under a class and collective action settlement that won final approval from a federal court in California.

A high school assistant principal who claimed she was forced to resign after complaining about a student discipline issue didn’t experience a violation of her constitutional rights, the Seventh Circuit said Oct. 18.

A New York woman will appeal to the Second Circuit the dismissal of her claims from a proposed class suit against Avon Products Inc. and spinoff New Avon LLC for alleged discrimination against pregnant and nursing workers.

Jones Day is continuing to stand by its parental leave policies, telling a D.C. federal court that an attorney-couple’s lawsuit is “an insubstantial quibble that fails even on its own terms.”

The United Auto Workers’ decision to extend its General Motors Co. strike at least another week means the work stoppage soon will become one of the country’s most disruptive strikes since 1990.