U.S. meatpacking giant Cargill Inc.and union workers at one of Canada’s biggest beef plants are bracing for a showdown, with talks early next week offering up a chance to break a labor impasse that threatens to upend the country’s meat supply.

As an Alabama coal miners’ strike neared the eight-month mark, a Tuscaloosa County judge took an unusual step: prohibiting union workers from picketing outside properties owned by their employer.

Philadelphia lost its bid to escape from a lawsuit brought by a Black former police officer because he adequately alleged that he faced a hostile work environment due to his race and his public support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal court in Pennsylvania said.

AT&T Inc. defeated age and disability discrimination claims by a longtime employee with epilepsy and breast cancer when the Third Circuit ruled Friday that the employee’s selection for potential termination was part of a neutral reduction in force.

One of Puerto Rico’s largest insurers must face a lawsuit claiming it mismanaged a pension plan covering employees of a subsidiary that’s undergoing liquidation after taking steep losses in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, a federal judge ruled.

A $3.9 million class settlement over Mercy Health Corp.'s retirement plan brokerage fees hit a stumbling block when an Illinois federal judge declined to sign off on the deal because of its inclusion of a preliminary injunction.