Three U.S. Supreme Court cases are worth watching for wage and hour attorneys, as they deal with the authority of the U.S. Department of Labor and another agency to punish violators, and courts’ jurisdiction over enforcing arbitration awards. Here, Law360 offers a roundup of those three cases that could end up affecting wage suits.
The full Fifth Circuit grappled Tuesday with whether lawmakers had to be physically present to have validly enacted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, in a case one judge said will head to the U.S. Supreme Court if a lower court ruling barring PWFA enforcement against Texas stands.
The D.C. Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board unfairly refused to admit certain evidence in a picketing dispute as it probed a cleaning contractor's attempt to escape a redone ruling that it punished workers over a protected protest more than a decade ago.