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A federal judge Monday preserved most of the discrimination and retaliation claims made by current and former Prince George’s County Police Department officers of color. Judge Theodore D. Chuang partially granted and partially denied a motion to dismiss portions of ...

Maryland’s top court has upheld a $7.3 million award to an asbestos exposure victim and his wife despite a lack of direct evidence that the company found responsible had installed the flame-retardant carcinogen. In a 6-1 decision last week, the ...

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Like many people his age, Ruben Tisdale isn’t ready to quit working. Six days a week, the 65-year-old Baltimore city resident drives for Lyft, raking in around $800 weekly. He sometimes drives as far as York, Pennsylvania, or Hagerstown to ...

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young has hired from within the ranks of city government to fill the top job at the city’s struggling Department of Transportation. Young’s office said on Monday that the mayor hired Steve Sharkey as the ...

National unions plan to continue their push to organize nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital with a rally next weekend in front of the hospital. The July 20th event is the latest move in an at-times contentious effort that has included ...

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he sees a legal path to adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite a Supreme Court ruling that blocked its inclusion, at least temporarily.

      Before Dr. John Chessare took over as president and CEO of Greater Baltimore Medical Center nine years ago, the hospital’s board asked him whether GBMC could remain independent at a time when other hospitals across the state ...

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Clayton Greene Jr. has retired from the Maryland Court of Appeals, giving Gov. Larry Hogan the opportunity to appoint a majority of the judges on the state’s top court. Greene retired with no public announcement, but his departure from the ...

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Between 2014 and 2016, adjunct faculty at three Maryland colleges voted to establish unions. Organizers hailed the moves as steppingstones in the fight for job security, benefits and fair pay among teachers nationwide. These days adjunct unions in Maryland are working to ...

There was a time when human resources practitioners and employment attorneys could list the “protected classes” — groups of people protected from discrimination and harassment in the workplace — like counting to five: race, color, religion, sex and national origin. ...