The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday said it is withdrawing a proposal to remove interpretive rules and policy statements regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act that had not gone through notice-and-comment rulemaking.
The Third Circuit on Tuesday scrapped a district court order that largely sided with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's push for information in a now-settled probe into alleged antisemitism at the University of Pennsylvania, granting a motion from Penn-affiliated groups that warned of "downstream consequences" from the ruling.
As federal courts grow increasingly skeptical of agencies' statutory interpretations, inviting review even of established policies, a new challenge has been brought against long-standing National Labor Relations Board precedent holding that unions are only required to win majorities of workers who vote in order to win representation elections.