Most of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's latest crop of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cases stem from employers penalizing workers for pregnancy-related absences or pushing back on their requests to temporarily forgo strenuous work, shedding light on the statute's contours as its implementing regulations are slated for revision.
Democratic gains in the midterms could boost a proposed collective bargaining overhaul and shrink the timeline for the National Labor Relations Board's Republican majority to shift policy in employers' favor, labor policy observers said Thursday at a New York University School of Law conference.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s top lawyer told a room of attorneys at the New York University School of Law on Thursday that compliance assistance is helpful because of imited enforcement resources and that finalizing an independent contractor rule is an agency priority. Labor Solicitor Jonathan Berry sat down with Law360 at the conference.