While everyone in the United States is ready to move on from COVID-19, the litigation against vaccine and mask mandates continues. Federal transportation mask mandate vacated In the latest setback to the Biden...
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Department has brought several criminal cases against employers for colluding to suppress wages. The push began under the Trump administration, which filed a lawsuit...
COVID-19 has caused a myriad of legal issues for employers. Employers that had to shut down during the pandemic often laid their employees off with less than the 60 days’ notice required by the Worker Adjustment and...
The nomination of controversial former Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Administrator David Weil to return to his old job has ended in defeat. Weil failed to receive an affirmative vote from the Senate and subsequently...
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first African-American woman to be seated on the U. S. Supreme Court in a 53-47 confirmation vote by the Senate, with Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Susan...
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California approved and entered the consent decree between Activision Blizzard, Inc., and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which includes $18 million...
Surprising victories for unions at the giant Amazon warehouse in New York and at numerous Starbucks outlets throughout the country have given new energy to the union movement. They also have animated the National Labor...
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a new directive on March 31 that substantially revises how the agency will handle compliance evaluations: DIR 2022-02, Effective Compliance Evaluations...
At the end of a visit to Brazil in the 1960s, then-French President Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have said, “This is not a serious country.” Besides being an apocryphal remark, no one knows precisely what the austere...
The ancient words of Ecclesiastes have rarely had such force, as we watch in dazed horror as Russian bombs and missiles crash into Ukrainian homes and hospitals, killing mother and child, soldier and civilian. Innocent...
On Equal Pay Day, March 15, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued Directive 2022-01, Pay Equity Audits. The new directive provides detailed information on how the OFCCP will assess compliance...
In November 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced they had joined forces to target employer retaliation...
Tuesday, March 15, was Equal Pay Day in the United States. Equal Pay Day represents how far into the next year women must work to earn what men earned in 2021 based on U.S. Census Bureau data. The Biden administration...
Congress finally succeeded in passing a 2022 budget, but the administration’s ambitious hopes for rebuilding the labor and employment enforcement agencies were completely abandoned. Although passing this budget is...
In 2016, U.S. Women’s Soccer stars Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo, and Becky Sauerbrunn filed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints against the United States Soccer Federation...