A Sixth Circuit case that the U.S. Department of Labor has continued litigating involving a wage rule the agency is separately seeking to walk back shows how the department simultaneously takes different approaches to enforcement and deregulation, agency veterans and attorneys said.
The owner of a shuttered Chicago restaurant responded to an unfair labor practice complaint against the restaurant, so the case against the establishment can continue even though the restaurant itself didn't respond, the National Labor Relations Board said, denying agency prosecutors' motion for default judgment.
A Georgia federal judge rejected a worker's attorney's push to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company in a pregnancy bias suit, saying Tuesday that the request lacks merit and "borders on frivolous."