The U.S. Supreme Court turned down two petitions Monday stemming from the same Ninth Circuit decision in a wage and hour case against restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, one dealing with how many steps should be used for approving notice in a putative collective action and the other involving whether out-of-state workers can participate.
A recent appeal of a National Labor Relations Board judge's ruling that federal labor law protected a worker who complained to a co-worker about a colleague's pay could narrow protections for job actions on the legal margins.
A recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming that a Coca-Cola distributor violated federal law by holding a women-only corporate event sheds light on the agency's strategy for challenging workplace diversity initiatives, and suggests that a broad range of employer programs are under scrutiny, experts said.