Proposed regulations impacting California's Private Attorneys General Act that have raised questions from both workers' and employers' attorneys are necessary to address a "depressing" trend of inadequate notices, a state workforce agency official said at a wage and hour conference Thursday.
A D.C. Circuit ruling this week rejected a National Labor Relations Board policy under a narrow reading of the deference courts now owe the agency's legal interpretations, potentially leaving the board's doctrines vulnerable to challenges in the court where they're most likely to land.
The University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck a deal to end their battle over a subpoena seeking contact information of Jewish UPenn employees after the agency agreed to back away from enforcing it, the parties told the Third Circuit on Thursday.