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Broadcaster Urges Justices To Mull NLRB Review Standard

Broadcasting network Nexstar has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify how much deference courts owe the National Labor Relations Board in a challenge to a Second Circuit ruling affirming the company's obligation to bargain with its newsroom workers at a New York news station.

On a dark colored desk rests a pen, two hard-cover books and a white sheet of paper with black letters EEOC in the top left corner. Below the letters is a thin black line, and below the line are the words Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

4 Takeaways As EEOC Wraps Up 2026 Fiscal Year

The cases filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during its recently concluded fiscal year reflect a focus on workplace accommodation obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as pregnancy and religious discrimination laws. Here, experts unpack some themes and trends behind the agency's 2026 docket.

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NLRB Attys Urge Board To Revive Investigation Secrecy Rule

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged the board to rethink a Biden-era precedent shift and hold that employers can instruct workers to keep information about an investigation secret while the probe is active.

Expert Analysis

NLRB Memo Signals Narrower View Of Protected Activism

Jason Patterson and Rachel Domash

A recent National Labor Relations Board memo concluding that Microsoft lawfully discharged two employees who condu... (more story)

Visa Ruling Exposes APA Risks For DHS Grace Period Repeal

Jun Li

Four defects described in a September district court decision halting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's n... (more story)

Religious Accommodation Lessons From Recent EEOC Focus

Crystal Banse

With several recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcement actions focusing on religious accommo... (more story)

Labor More

Nonprofit Workers Can't Join Existing Unit, NLRB Official Says

A National Labor Relations Board official approved a representation election for a stand-alone group of employees working at a Colorado nonprofit on Wednesday, but found that the workers don't have enough in c... (more story)

Workers Back Kroger In NLRB Dues Revocation Suit

Workers represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation urged the Fifth Circuit to vacate a National Labor Relations Board decision finding Kroger unlawfully ceased deducting dues from worke... (more story)

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Metal Co. Bypassed Union In Plant Closure, NLRB Judge Says

A Michigan metal heat-treating company violated federal law by maintaining overly broad work rules, failing to inform a United Auto Workers local of its plans to close its facility and shutting down the facili... (more story)

Utah Cannabis Shop Says NLRB Case Can't Be Tossed Yet

A Utah medical marijuana dispensary challenging National Labor Relations Board proceedings against it over the firing of four union supporters is pushing back against both the NLRB and the intervening United F... (more story)

Tacoma Must Put Workers' Initiative To Voters, Panel Rules

City leaders in Tacoma, Washington, have a duty to put a so-called Workers' Bill of Rights initiative to voters, a state appellate panel said Tuesday, holding in a published opinion that the city council faile... (more story)

Ford PA Can Vote On Joining UAW Unit, NLRB Official Says

A physician assistant at a Ford assembly plant in Missouri can vote on whether to join an existing bargaining unit of nurses represented by the United Auto Workers, a regional director for the National Labor R... (more story)

NJ Judge Backs Denial Of Painting Co.'s $350K Fee Bid

A New Jersey federal judge rejected a painting company's challenge to a magistrate judge's ruling that denied its bid for a union pension fund to cover roughly $350,000 in legal fees, finding that the magistra... (more story)

Discrimination More

Fired Childcare Director Fights To Keep Bias Suit Alive

A former director at a Colorado childcare center pushed back on her ex-employer's bid to dismiss her pregnancy discrimination suit, saying the company's termination notice cited her medical appointments and ap... (more story)

Staffing Co. Must Pay EEOC Remainder Of $276K Bias Deal

A Washington federal judge found a staffing company violated the terms of a $276,000 settlement it reached with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to close a bias investigation, siding with the E... (more story)

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Ex-Minn. City Worker's Age Bias Suit Falls Short At 8th Circ.

The Eighth Circuit refused Wednesday to reinstate an age bias suit from an ex-fire department worker who said unfair criticism and a demotion left him no choice but to resign, ruling the conditions he complain... (more story)

Racial Slur Bias Suit Revived By Calif. Justices Heads To Jury

A Black San Francisco prosecutor's office worker was left debilitated when the city failed to take appropriate action after a co-worker called her a racial slur, her lawyer told a jury Tuesday, kicking off tri... (more story)

Calif. Urged To Probe Emotional Intelligence Tool For Job Bias

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, asking the agency to investigate Criteria Corp.'s product for screening job applicants by so-called ... (more story)

Calif. Panel OKs Wells Fargo's Win In Sex Harassment Case

A California appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a suit accusing a Wells Fargo supervisor of sexually harassing a coworker on a business trip, saying employers are not strictly liable under the Fair Empl... (more story)

Wrestler Asks Justices To Shield Her From Trans Opponents

A high school wrestler asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief protecting her from competing against female-identifying students who are biologically male, after she said one such opponent sexually a... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Ex-Fifth Third Worker Claims Unpaid Prep Work Violated FLSA

An ex-Fifth Third Bank customer service representative has hit her former employer with a proposed class action accusing it of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by refusing to pay her and other employees ... (more story)

Colo. Legislative Aide Says He Was Fired For Pay Complaints

A Colorado state representative fired a senior legislative aide after he objected to doing campaign work on taxpayer-funded time and complained that she failed to fairly pay him for hundreds of hours of campai... (more story)

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Buffalo Exchange Workers Take Pay Claims To 2nd Circ.

Three former Buffalo Exchange workers urged the Second Circuit to revive their claims for liquidated damages over allegedly late paychecks, arguing a 2025 New York law curtailing the remedy was improperly push... (more story)

Ga. Appeals Court Grapples With Nurses' COVID-Era Pay Fight

A Georgia appeals court wrestled Wednesday with whether nurses who traveled to Florida for jobs at state-run COVID-19 testing sites were owed pay just for showing up in the Sunshine State — or if being assigne... (more story)

Ga. Atty Wants Ex-Firm's Nearly $100K Arbitration Win Erased

A Georgia attorney has asked a Georgia federal judge to vacate a nearly $100,000 arbitration award in favor of her former firm in a retaliation and harassment suit, arguing the arbitrator exceeded his powers i... (more story)

Illinois Utility Dispatcher Challenges OT Exemption

A dispatcher at an Illinois electric and gas utility has told a federal court the company misclassified her and other dispatchers as overtime exempt even though their work follows established procedures rather... (more story)

Cracker Barrel Can't Use High Court Ruling To Reopen Suit

An Arizona federal judge refused to let Cracker Barrel use a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to reopen a collective certification ruling in a wage suit, finding the restaurant chain waited too long to raise... (more story)