The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday unveiled the final version of a rule rescinding decades-old regulations that imposed nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements on federal contractors, erasing the remnants of a 1960s executive order that President Donald Trump nixed.
California’s proposed rule addressing the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, New Jersey’s recent codification of an independent contractor test and Virginia’s upcoming sick leave law make those three states places to watch for recent wage and hour activity. Here, Law360 explores those three states that are seeing activity.