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.
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.
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.
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.
Wage and Hour investigators found four companies operating NY Gyro locations in Minnesota paid straight time for overtime hours and failed to keep accurate records.
A federal jury found Northwest Arkansas Hospitals liable under Title VII on a male surgical technician's claim and awarded compensatory and punitive damages.
The NLRB says it and New York will drop the agency's suit over a state law that would let PERB hear cases when the federal board lacks a quorum.