The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that lieutenants who oversee guards at a Florida power plant are not union-ineligible supervisors, backing the board's finding that they don't use judgment when writing up lower-level workers.
A U.S. Supreme Court case considering whether the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house proceedings to impose civil penalties and back wages could push the agency into federal court and give employers more leverage in settlement talks, while making some workers' wage claims harder to recover, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at four ways the DOL's enforcement power could change.
A trucking company will pay $5.5 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it refused to hire women as truck drivers for nearly a decade, according to a filing in Arizona federal court.