Stanford University resident assistants' recent withdrawal of a petition seeking a representation election demonstrates students' continued hesitance to test whether the current National Labor Relations Board agrees with precedent empowering them to unionize.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered approximately $518 million for workplace discrimination victims in its recently concluded fiscal year, while reducing its backlog of pending charges, Commissioner Brittany Bull Panuccio said Friday.
Most of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's latest crop of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cases stem from employers penalizing workers for pregnancy-related absences or pushing back on their requests to temporarily forgo strenuous work, shedding light on the statute's contours as its implementing regulations are slated for revision.