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July 02, 2026
BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled, in granting summary judgment to eight federal sector labor organizations, that an interim final rule (IFR) that would have stripped U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) regional directors of all union representation responsibilities and required all cases to be handled directly by the authority was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and ordered vacatur of the rule.
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July 01, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a June 30 joint notice that was filed just over a week before a bench trial was scheduled to begin, parties in a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over severance benefits told a California federal court “that they have reached agreement on all terms of their proposed class action settlement and expect to have a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding within the next few days.”
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July 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The filing of an amended complaint in an artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination case did not eradicate the need for interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate-impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, but to the extent that it does, allowing the filing of a new motion for judgment would facilitate appellate review, Workday Inc. argues in a supplemental brief filed in a California federal court.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) who asked the justices to review her February 2025 removal by President Donald J. Trump.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 denied an application by President Donald J. Trump and others to stay an interlocutory injunction in a case over the president’s ability to remove Shira Perlmutter from her position as the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
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July 01, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey granted final approval of an $8.5 million settlement by FedEx Ground Package System Inc. to end a class complaint alleging the shipper violated New Jersey wage law by failing to pay hourly warehouse workers for actions they were required to undertake before and after their shifts.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a group of health care workers seeking review of whether a now-repealed New York COVID-19 vaccine regulation violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Constitution, with Justice Neil Gorsuch offering a dissent stating that it would have been “well worth” the court’s time to address the case and that correcting the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ interpretation of Title VII “should have been an easy business.”
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court requested a response after a waiver of the right to respond by federal judicial branch officials and administrators sued in their official capacities in a workplace harassment and discrimination case to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a former assistant federal public defender seeking a determination on the legality of the judiciary’s internal employment dispute resolution (EDR) plan for resolving discrimination and harassment claims and the plan’s compliance with legal protections.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a pair of opinions issued by a divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 concerning two federal officials, the high court majority in the first overruled Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and opined that the president has the power to fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will; in the second opinion, a high court majority declined President Donald J. Trump’s application to stay an injunction keeping a member of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors in her post while her case challenging her purported firing continues as the majority opined that the Federal Reserve is an independent entity.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of the en banc District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a limited remand in a federal agency’s appeal of a preliminary injunction that halted the termination of more than 1,400 workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for the trial court to consider “whether to modify, suspend, or dissolve the preliminary injunction” in light of developments identified by the CFPB, which included a revised reduction-in-force (RIF) plan, changes to CFPB’s funding and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission ordered a national pest control company to stop issuing and enforcing “unfair and anticompetitive” noncompete agreements on “many thousands of current and former” employees, resolving allegations that the “longstanding” policy requiring all newly hired workers to enter into the agreements violated the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA).
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a petition by U.S. DOGE Service (referred to as both DOGE and USDS), the DOGE acting administrator, Elon Musk and others in the federal government asking the justices to take up for the second time questions concerning discovery in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case regarding DOGE’s authority and role in mass firings in the federal government as the case does not warrant review, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) argues in its opposition brief.
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June 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Labor (DOL) argues in a U.S. Supreme Court petitioner brief that because the H-2A migrant worker visa program is part of federal immigration law under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), it may enforce conditions of the program, including imposing civil penalties and back wages, through its own adjudication process.
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June 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted final approval of a $515,000 nonreversionary class settlement and $2,500 service awards for each of two named plaintiffs in a suit alleging that a marine manufacturer failed to safeguard personally identifiable information (PII) of employees and benefit recipients that was allegedly accessed during an April 2023 cyberattack.
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June 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by the former publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both the National Labor Relations Board and the union that represented the paper’s editorial department employees in a yearslong labor dispute say the petition should be denied, arguing that no significant legal conflict warranting high court intervention exists and that the questions presented mischaracterize the case and raise issues that are not actually presented or were not preserved.
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June 19, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — An interlocutory appeal filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board’s structure was dismissed by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals following the NLRB’s dismissal of charges in underlying administrative cases because of a ruling by the National Mediation Board (NMB) that the NLRB lacks jurisdiction because SpaceX is governed by the Railway Labor Act (RLA), not the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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June 18, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A labor union that represents workers in 38 federal agencies and departments filed an amended complaint on June 17 in a federal court in the District of Columbia in a lawsuit that challenges a Jan. 20, 2025, executive order (EO); the initial complaint was filed the same day as President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration day order that moved numerous federal workers into a new excepted service category and alleged that the intent behind the EO was to clear the way to fire the workers.
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June 18, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — In a ruling on a question of first impression, a split Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s award of “overtime gap time” pay to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as part of a more than $35.8 million damages package in a wage and hour violations suit, holding that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not provide a cause of action for unpaid, non-overtime hours, even when the hours occurred in a week in which overtime was worked.
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June 17, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland held that a nonprofit legal services organization that serves the LGBTQ+ community does not have standing to sue the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over a “Trans Exclusion Policy” that limits charge investigations involving gender-identity discrimination claims to just hiring, firing and promotion and dismissed claims alleging violations of Title VII, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the U.S. Constitution without prejudice.
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June 17, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal court in Virginia “committed legal error” and “erroneously ignored the directive of our binding Bojangles [Stafford v. Bojangles’ Restaurants, Inc.] precedent” when it determined that a proposed class of Anheuser-Busch LLC employees who allege they were not paid for pre- and post-shift activities met Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s commonality and predominance requirements, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, finding “significant variation in the” employees’ work.
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June 16, 2026
CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied a petition for rehearing filed by a road construction company seeking review of whether it should be allowed to challenge the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s dismissal of an employee union’s decertification petition in a more than eight-year bargaining dispute as another rehearing petition in a similar case awaits a ruling.
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June 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 15 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Macy’s Inc. in which it sought review of whether neutral practices can be “inherently destructive” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and whether the National Labor Relations Board could require compensation for worker financial harms in a long-running collective bargaining dispute with the board and the union representing groups of locked-out employees.
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June 16, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel will not rehear or certify a question to the Oregon Supreme Court regarding a decision in a years-long wage dispute to revive both individual and class claims brought by Jack in the Box workers alleging that they were entitled to compensation for shortened meal breaks, thereby reinforcing a decision to reverse and remand the earlier ruling.
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June 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a response to a formal request from the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion stating that the guidelines the commission uses to evaluate disparate-impact liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “are unconstitutional because they contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone, without regard to an employer’s likely intent, and pressure employers to engage in race-based decisionmaking.”
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June 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former employee of a Georgia district attorney’s office who filed a federal discrimination suit against her employer after she was terminated while pregnant is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn and send back an appellate court ruling that favored her employer, arguing in her petitioner brief that the appellate court wrongly ignored the language of three Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by allowing her employer to win summary judgment based on an affirmative defense that was never included in its pleadings.