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Legal News files the day's record: decisions issued, filings docketed, settlements announced and enforcement actions opened across labor and employment law.
The day's filings, rulings, settlements and agency actions in labor and employment law, reported the day they happen.
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How a Court Filing Becomes a Headline Before Lunch
A look at the daily pipeline that turns dockets, rulings and agency notices into the legal news you read.
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OPM finalizes rules moving federal RIF appeals from board to agency
Two final rules published August 3 shift appeals of furloughs, separations and demotions to OPM itself, effective September 2, ending the MSPB hearing route.
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Supreme Court to weigh the Labor Department's farmworker enforcement power
The Court agreed to decide how far the department can go to court for farmworkers owed pay, a question that shapes protections for hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers.
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Justice Department opinion calls EEOC disparate-impact guidance unconstitutional
A 25-page Office of Legal Counsel opinion, released June 9, concludes Title VII liability cannot rest on unequal outcomes alone; courts, not DOJ, will decide.
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Lawsuit says the EEOC stopped hearing federal workers' class cases
Union-backed litigation alleges the agency abandoned a decades-old process for class-style discrimination complaints by federal employees; the EEOC's position is not resolved.