Should college athletes be classified as employees under federal labor laws?

Vassar College faces equal pay lawsuit.

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has brought a lawsuit against Walmart, alleging disability discrimination.

Yale University recently settled the affirmative action lawsuit challenging its admissions policies. This follows the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision involving Harvard University.

In a decision issued today in The Atlanta Opera, Inc., the National Labor Relations Board returned to the 2014 FedEx Home Delivery (FedEx II) standard for determining independent contractor status under the National Labor Relations Act, and overruled SuperShuttle (2019). In applying the FedEx II standard, the Board found that the makeup artists, wig artists, and hairstylists who work at the Atlanta Opera— who had filed an election petition with the Board seeking union representation—are not independent contractors, excluded from the Act, but rather are covered employees.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a setback to organized labor by making it easier for employers to sue over strikes that cause property destruction in a ruling siding with a concrete business in Washington state that sued the union representing its truck drivers after a work stoppage.

Starbucks committed “egregious” violations of federal labor law in terminating employees during a union-organizing campaign.

NLRB Issues New Ruling on Severance Agreements.

The FTC recently proposed new regulations on non-compete agreements that could significantly impact employers and employees.

Supreme Court asks Solicitor General to weigh in on Title VII adverse employment action doctrine.

National Labor Relations Board expands relief available to employees (to include financial relief)

Brown University Bans “Caste” Discrimination

The Biden administration proposed sweeping changes Thursday to federal rules under the gender equity law Title IX that would revoke Trump administration mandates surrounding sexual misconduct that advocates for assault survivors said discriminated against victims.

The National Labor Relations Board released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making addressing the standard for determining “joint-employer” status under the National Labor Relations Act.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal of a decision that Harvard University’s use of affirmative action in college admissions is legal. The Court will also hear an appeal of a ruling that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s use of affirmative action was legal.

The Council of Christian Colleges and Universities has moved to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn a religious exemption to Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.

In-N-Out-Burger wrote an employee up for protected and approved leave, and failed to institute and enforce Covid-19 safety measures, according to a private attorney general suit filed on behalf of the state in California state court.

The National Labor Relations Board upheld on Thursday an administrative judge's ruling that Boar’s Head Provisions Co. Inc. violated the National Labor Relations Act when the meat supplier promised workers benefits if they decided not to unionize.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of California's state-run retirement program (“CalSavers”) Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the program’s right to exist, holding that the state law that created CalSavers isn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).