?Overruling precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled in McLaren Macomb that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by including in a proposed severance agreement standard provisions... Read more »
?The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued its first significant decision interpreting the state’s employment discrimination law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), in three years. In a ruling that will likely be... Read more »
?Takeaway: A trial court lacks power to even consider the merits of an employer’s objections to an arbitration award where the employer failed to meet the statutory deadline for challenging the award.... Read more »
?Takeaway: Reading a provision of the California Labor Code together with a provision of the California Code of Civil Procedure leads to the conclusion that where weekly wages are due to be... Read more »
A case that will determine whether National Guard technicians can keep their union rights. Religious Accommodations On April 18, the court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit over when employers can... Read more »
?The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a union-friendly piece of proposed legislation, was reintroduced in Congress on Feb. 28 to mixed reviews. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic... Read more »
?The Biden administration is launching a task force to more thoroughly vet U.S. sponsors of migrant children and increase efforts to investigate and prosecute cases of child exploitation in worksites across the... Read more »
?Sexual harassment, pay discrimination and artificial intelligence (AI) are among the priorities that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will focus on this year in its guidance and enforcement efforts. The... Read more »
President Joe Biden on Feb. 28 announced he was nominating Julie Su to be the next secretary of the Department of Labor. Su, currently the deputy secretary of labor, previously was head... Read more »
?Takeaway: A city police officer who criticized the county sheriff on Facebook could be terminated even though her comments were on a matter of public concern because the police department’s need to... Read more »
