The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's decision to drop its subpoena for information on Jewish employees at the University of Pennsylvania may have been a strategic move to preserve a district court decision affirming its broad investigative authority, experts said.
Proposed regulations impacting California's Private Attorneys General Act that have raised questions from both workers' and employers' attorneys are necessary to address a "depressing" trend of inadequate notices, a state workforce agency official said at a wage and hour conference Thursday.
A D.C. Circuit ruling this week rejected a National Labor Relations Board policy under a narrow reading of the deference courts now owe the agency's legal interpretations, potentially leaving the board's doctrines vulnerable to challenges in the court where they're most likely to land.