The U.S. Department of Labor announced the details Thursday of a long-awaited proposed rule to rescind and replace a previous administration's regulation that outlined how to decide if a worker is an employee or independent contractor.
The Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Adams and Reese LLP can't send a fired paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit to arbitration, ruling that a law that bars mandatory out-of-court resolutions for sexual harassment cases applies to the entirety of her lawsuit.
National Labor Relations Board member Scott Mayer's assertion that he would rethink a longstanding doctrine barring votes for workers to oust unions that have merged into larger bargaining units offers an early glimpse of the new board majority's views, experts said, and invited employers to raise the issue in litigation.