New Jersey’s top labor official said he’s aware of opposition to an ABC test rule for independent contractor classification that his agency finalized this month, but that the regulation doesn’t change the way the state has approached the issue for nearly a century. Acting Labor Commissioner Kevin Jarvis spoke with Law360 about the rule.
Amazon appeared likely Monday to lose its challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on mandatory anti-union meetings after an Eleventh Circuit panel doubted the company's standing to fight the policy, which the board announced but did not apply in a decision involving the company.
An Oklahoma federal judge greenlit a $4.25 million settlement Monday between a gas packaging manufacturer and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending the agency's suit claiming the business unlawfully fired workers for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious or medical grounds.