The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that lieutenants who oversee guards at a Florida power plant are not union-ineligible supervisors, backing the board's finding that they don't use judgment when writing up lower-level workers.
The full Fifth Circuit will consider whether the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was validly enacted, the D.C. Circuit will hear the Trump administration's bid to reinstate diversity-focused executive orders targeting four BigLaw firms. Here's a quartet of oral arguments that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
A U.S. Supreme Court case considering whether the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house proceedings to impose civil penalties and back wages could push the agency into federal court and give employers more leverage in settlement talks, while making some workers' wage claims harder to recover, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at four ways the DOL's enforcement power could change.