A recent Ninth Circuit ruling reaffirmed that the National Labor Relations Board's expanded remedial scheme generally fits within the agency's mandate to protect worker organizing but provides little guidance as to whether specific remedies will pass the court's muster.
The U.S. Department of Labor's leadership team now consists of at least two officials who previously represented challengers to Democratic-era wage and hour rules, signaling the Trump administration's potential approach to the same regulatory issues.
The Seventh Circuit will weigh whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s Muldrow decision was properly applied in a letter carrier’s race bias case, and the Eleventh Circuit will hear a former Hyundai plant worker who wore dreadlocks defend an $800,000 jury verdict in a hairstyle discrimination suit. Here are four argument sessions that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on next month.