On Tuesday, the Department of Labor issued its final rule modifying the standards for classifying employees as exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  To qualify for one of the white-collar exemptions (executive, administrative or professional),…

The UAW’s $40 million “Southern Strategy” had its first success yesterday.   By a vote of 2,628-985, Volkswagen employees on Friday, April 19 chose the UAW.  Two prior votes were close defeats for the UAW—626-712 in 2014 and 776-883 in 2019. …

Earlier today, the Supreme Court held that a police sergeant’s suit about her involuntary transfer to another division with less prestige and fewer perks was sufficiently injurious to allow her to sue for sex discrimination, even though her title and…

Eight months ago, the EEOC published draft Pregnant Worker Fairness Act regulations that drastically expanded the impact of this relatively simple and limited statute, proposing an interpretation that made the PWFA a leave-favoring FMLA expansion available to nearly all employees,…

On Friday, OSHA issued its final revisions to its “walkaround rule” to allow non-employees to participate in OSHA inspections.  The previous OSHA rule allowed an employee representative to participate in inspections, but required that the representative had to be an…

Some pundits suggest that six states are “in play” and likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election: Arizona (11 electoral votes), Georgia (16), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). In this scenario (which includes North…