A Democratic takeover of the House or Senate after next Tuesday's midterm elections would bring new congressional oversight of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's deregulatory, Trump-oriented agenda and preview Democrats' longer-term employment priorities, experts said.
The Second Circuit refused Tuesday to reinstate a former Eastchester, New York, police officer's lawsuit alleging he was fired because of his family's roots in Ecuador, finding he hadn't shown that town officials knew he identified as Hispanic when they fired him.
California workers can pursue representative claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act without bringing individual claims, even after the law's 2024 amendments, a California appeals court ruled, rejecting an agricultural equipment company's bid to force a former employee into arbitration.