National Labor Relations Board prosecutors are urging the board to ease scrutiny on rules requiring confidentiality during ongoing investigations, a move employers say is necessary to allow prompt investigations of serious misconduct, but that union advocates worry will provide cover for threats against union backers.
The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of the role of disparate impact evidence in a school admissions dispute comes as the Trump administration has pushed to eliminate the decades-old legal theory, and could have implications for how the doctrine operates in the employment sphere.
A California property management company cannot force a former employee to arbitrate her proposed wage class action because it required arbitration as a condition of her employment, a state appeals court ruled, finding the agreement unenforceable under California law.