A recent National Labor Relations Board decision finding that documents covered by attorney-client privilege do not need to be disclosed in union information requests could increase litigation over privilege claims at the board and affect how employers approach grievance arbitration, experts said.
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to kick off a new term, the justices have several pending petitions in their queue that raise hot-button antidiscrimination law issues, including whether mandatory diversity training can sustain a lawsuit and if a decades-old, burden-shifting test should stay on the books. Here are 10 bids for review attorneys might want to keep an eye on.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a Georgia federal judge to force a Hyundai subsidiary to fully comply with an agency subpoena related to its probe into allegations that the company showed unlawful preference to Korean workers, arguing the company's incomplete responses have hamstrung the investigation.