The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted to finalize changes to its guidance on religious discrimination in the workplace, updating that section of its compliance manual for the first time since 2008.

Michigan State University was hit with a proposed class action in federal court Friday by female student-athletes who say the school violated Title IX when it eliminated its women’s swimming and diving teams, leaving players in limbo.

Amazon.com Inc. workers at an Alabama warehouse will vote by mail in February and March on whether to form a union, the National Labor Relations Board said, setting a date for a closely watched referendum on the relationship between the largest online retailer and the employees who pack and ship its products.

Allegiant Air LLC and an airport transportation supervisor who claimed the airline failed to accommodate her when her hands broke out in blisters because of a cleaning agent it used on its planes have resolved her lawsuit, California federal court records show.

Companies that receive H-1B visa workers for contracted work will also have to petition for labor certification with the U.S. Labor Department, along with the main sponsoring company, according to new guidance.

A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ decision to deny a foreign student the change to correct his application for the optional practical training program was “arbitrary and capricious,” an Alabama federal court ruled.

Recent precedent rejecting employer attempts to contractually reduce the amount of time a worker has to sue for job discrimination applies with equal force under federal laws prohibiting age and disability bias and isn’t limited to the law barring race, sex, and other forms of unequal treatment, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.