The U.S. Department of Labor is dismantling President Joe Biden's legacy and reconfiguring the Wage and Hour Division with a business-friendly approach, as seen in the agency saying it would not seek liquidated damages against employers and its announcement that it would stop enforcement of an employee-friendly classification rule. Here, Law360 explores these and other developments unfolding at the DOL.
The fate of the long-standing but recently threatened two-step process for wage and hour collective certification is uncertain after one federal appeals court departed from two others by keeping the analysis intact, while another is expected to decide on the issue soon. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
The Eighth Circuit declined on Thursday to upend decisions in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its lawsuit accusing a trucking company of refusing to hire a driver because he's deaf, rejecting the employer's argument that the applicant wasn't qualified for the job.