Two U.S. House Democrats on Monday urged the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw its proposed rule for determining when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations, saying it would undermine worker protections by making it harder to hold larger businesses accountable.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defeated a supervisor's lawsuit alleging her performance rating was unlawfully lowered because she refused to alter evaluations of other workers and complained about a district director, with a Florida federal judge finding her actions weren't protected by civil rights law.
A petition urging the National Labor Relations Board to eliminate long-standing policies that block workers from ousting unions in certain circumstances faces long odds at an agency historically averse to rulemaking, experts said, but raises some issues the board's Republican majority could see as candidates for action.