Strong Jobs, More Housing: How Immigration Will Boost US Economy
The recent surge in immigration to the US has led many economists to boost their forecasts. Now they’re looking for more signs of its impact in the data.
Brittany Pietsch inspired a wave of copycats after she posted on TikTok a recording of her tense conversation with two Cloudflare representatives informing her that she was being let go.
Farmworkers on temporary visas would get new protections aimed at bolstering labor organizing efforts under newly finalized Labor Department regulations.
A coalition of 17 red state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, targeting its addition of abortion in recently finalized regulations protecting pregnant workers.
The National Labor Relations Board has found that Starbucks Corp. illegally removed pro-union messages from community boards and threatened workers during unionization campaigns at several stores in Michigan.
Two signature US Labor Department policies are almost certain to face a test of whether the latest updates to the agency’s regulations can survive legal deficiencies that led to the demise of their Obama-era predecessors.
The recent surge in immigration to the US has led many economists to boost their forecasts. Now they’re looking for more signs of its impact in the data.
The US Labor Department’s use of Trump-era wage calculations for the first phase of its expansion of federal overtime pay protections creates a potential legal shield for at least part of a policy change destined for court attacks.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has a new lease on political life after the passage of a $237 billion state budget that includes policy wins on housing, education, and retail theft.
The EEOC’s decision to file a brief in support of a plaintiff who alleged Workday Inc.’s artificial intelligence-based hiring tools discriminated against him and other job seekers has sparked widespread skepticism about the agency’s position that software vendors, rather than just employers, can be liable in these bias cases.
Oversight of National Labor Relations Board decisions setting precedents is heating up in circuit courts around the US. Meanwhile, employers are working to comply with recent EEOC rules requiring accommodations for pregnant workers.
The Labor Department’s new standard extending fiduciary duties to more retirement advice professionals appears set to encounter tough opponents from Wall Street and Capitol Hill now that it has been finalized.
Williams & Connolly has become a Washington institution by bucking industry norms and waging war with the Justice Department.
The US Federal Trade Commission’s nationwide ban on noncompete clauses is set to spur more state action to limit the restrictive covenants, adding momentum to an already expanding landscape of these laws.
Elon Musk is locked in a stalemate with a group of Swedish technicians that’s lasted four times as long as the United Auto Workers strike.
With a stunning victory this month, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to unionize, sending another signal that the anti-labor bias of the South — with its roots in racism, Southern politics, and a bygone agricultural era — is breaking down.
New details in a probe examining whether the Federal Circuit’s oldest and longest-serving member is fit to remain on the bench highlight issues about anti-discrimination protections in the judiciary and efforts to obtain medical information about the judge.
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The US Labor Department’s use of Trump-era wage calculations for the first phase of its expansion of federal overtime pay protections creates a potential legal shield for at least part of a policy change destined for court attacks.
The EEOC’s decision to file a brief in support of a plaintiff who alleged Workday Inc.’s artificial intelligence-based hiring tools discriminated against him and other job seekers has sparked widespread skepticism about the agency’s position that software vendors, rather than just employers, can be liable in these bias cases.
Corporate attorneys and former federal officials are praising the EPA’s bid to coordinate its civil and criminal enforcement teams as a sensible idea that will yield fairer outcomes, reduce unpredictability, and expedite resolutions.
The Labor Department’s new standard extending fiduciary duties to more retirement advice professionals appears set to encounter tough opponents from Wall Street and Capitol Hill now that it has been finalized.
Williams & Connolly has become a Washington institution by bucking industry norms and waging war with the Justice Department.
The risks that artificial intelligence represents have come into sharper focus: disinformation, potential job loss, perhaps even an existential threat to humanity. Is government capable of putting guardrails around such a fast-moving technology?
Genuine issues of material fact preclude summary judgment to America’s Auto Body, Inc. on the disparate treatment and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law of a pregnant receptionist, an Illinois federal court ruled. Altwasser v. America’s Auto Body, Inc., 2024 BL 142336, N.D. Ill., 21-cv-2524, 4/25/24
A federal district court found a fired director for Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation stated False Claims Act violations against her employer and the University of Pittsburgh, and also alleged FCA retaliation. United States ex rel. Ruggeri v. Magee-Womens Rsch. Inst. & Found., 2024 BL 140335, W.D. Pa., 2:19-CV-862-NR, 4/24/24
An Ohio federal district court denied Northern Ohio Medical Specialists’ motion to dismiss the claims of a financial controller alleging his discharge was in retaliation for whistleblowing about NOMS’s potentially fraudulent tax reporting practices in violation of the Taxpayer First Act. Biggins v. N. Ohio Med. Specialists, LLC, 2024 BL 141720, N.D. Ohio, 3:23-cv-01917-JGC, 4/25/24
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