A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving federal courts' authority over cases they send to arbitration gives wage and hour litigants a clearer route for enforcing or challenging arbitration awards, attorneys said, though its practical impact is likely limited to the late stages of cases that do not settle.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is close to ending its annual collection of workplace demographic data now that a proposed rule that would rescind employers' reporting requirements has been sent to the White House for approval.
Organized labor is making a public push to have a greater say in how employers implement artificial intelligence in the workplace, queuing up a strategy that relies on a mix of political advocacy and collective bargaining to address a technology that the labor movement is casting as a potential existential threat.