National Labor Relations Board prosecutors called for several policy changes in a firing case involving a software company, urging the board to ditch a standard that can shield workers from firing for abusive conduct and restore a defunct rules test without a component that categorizes rules by legality.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Sixth Circuit to make clear that workers alleging age discrimination don't have to prove bias was the sole impetus behind a negative workplace consequence, noting that the circuit's case law is inconsistent.
Workers have responded to employers' arbitration requirements in wage and hour disputes by filing thousands of simultaneous arbitration demands, and now employers are rewriting pacts so that only what are known as batches of those demands proceed at a time, raising questions about efficiency and due process, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the issue.