Courts and Justice follows employment and labor litigation from docket to decision: NLRB rulings, appeals court arguments, Supreme Court grants and the agency actions that end up tested in court. Outcomes are reported, never predicted.
Labor and employment cases from dockets to decisions, plus the agencies and judges who shape workplace law.
Before any employment-discrimination case reaches a federal courtroom, it passes through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's charge system, which processes tens of thousands of discrimination charges each fiscal year.
Two parallel machines exist for grouping wage claims — the FLSA collective action and the Rule 23 class action — and the choice between them decides how workers join, opt out, and get paid.
A citation is a proposal, not a final penalty, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission — not OSHA — holds the last word when an employer fights it.
From the filing of a charge to a federal court of appeals, the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement pipeline follows a fixed sequence that both workers and employers should understand.