An OSHA exposure limit or a DOL overtime threshold becomes binding law through the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment process — a published proposal, a public docket, and a reasoned final rule.
House Bill 567, signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe on July 10, 2025, ended the earned paid sick time mandate on August 28, 2025 and froze future minimum wage inflation adjustments.
Section 6 lets the NLRB legislate through the Federal Register, a channel used rarely and contested every time.
Two final rules published August 3 shift appeals of furloughs, separations and demotions to OPM itself, effective September 2, ending the MSPB hearing route.
The Court agreed to decide how far the department can go to court for farmworkers owed pay, a question that shapes protections for hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers.
A 25-page Office of Legal Counsel opinion, released June 9, concludes Title VII liability cannot rest on unequal outcomes alone; courts, not DOJ, will decide.
A primer on non-day schedules — who works them, what federal safety research says about the health evidence, and which scheduling design rules follow from it.
Union-backed litigation alleges the agency abandoned a decades-old process for class-style discrimination complaints by federal employees; the EEOC's position is not resolved.
Wage and Hour investigators found four companies operating NY Gyro locations in Minnesota paid straight time for overtime hours and failed to keep accurate records.
A federal jury found Northwest Arkansas Hospitals liable under Title VII on a male surgical technician's claim and awarded compensatory and punitive damages.
The NLRB says it and New York will drop the agency's suit over a state law that would let PERB hear cases when the federal board lacks a quorum.
A proposed rule published February 27, 2026 would rescind the 2024 classification standard and restore a two-factor economic-reality test — and quietly extend it to family and migrant-worker statutes.
Federal inspectors cite Orchids Builders for two willful and four repeated fall protection violations at residential jobsites, proposing penalties of nearly 350,000 dollars.
A divided panel held July 21 that the NLRB exceeded its statutory authority when it required a new owner to recognize a union without an election.
The commission's June 29 vote pulls the federal interpretive framework that employers long relied on when running voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.
The Landrum-Griffin Act gives union members a bill of rights and two enforcement tracks — an internal appeals route, then the Labor Department's civil suit system — with strict deadlines on each.
Most workplace monitoring is lawful, with notice required in a minority of states; this explainer covers what can be tracked, disclosed and challenged.
The federal leave law protects the job but not the paycheck; state programs increasingly do the reverse. When both cover the same worker, the two usually run at the same time.
A signed arbitration agreement sends most employment disputes to a private forum, but the scope of what it binds runs through federal statute and stops at the courthouse door for certain claims.
The NLRB's general counsel told regions in 2022 to treat algorithmic management as a labor law problem; this analysis maps where software-made decisions meet the act.
Congress holds a rarely used undo button for federal regulations: a simple-majority joint resolution, moved within 60 legislative days of a rule's publication, that erases the rule and bars any substantially similar one.
The Supreme Court's 2024 decision overruled Chevron and told judges to exercise independent judgment on statutory meaning; the change lands hardest where agencies like the NLRB and DOL write the rules that govern work.
A primer on the federal sources behind workplace health coverage statistics — Census coverage counts, BLS employer-cost series and plan documents — and how not to mix them.
From $455 a week in 2004 to $1,128 and back to $684: how the salary level that decides who must be paid overtime moved, and why it reverted overnight in November 2024.
Twelve regional courts of appeals apply the same federal statutes, and their disagreements over meaning can leave the same conduct lawful in one region and unlawful in another until the Supreme Court intervenes.
GAO found hospital labor costs spiked on contract nurses during the pandemic; this explainer covers ratio laws, the retention record and the unresolved outcomes debate.
The federal wage law sets a floor of $7.25 an hour but says almost nothing about when wages are paid. State statutes fill that space, and they diverge sharply on pay frequency, deductions, and the deadline for a final check.
The Court does not re-run an NLRB case; it polices the boundary lines of the statute itself, and four landmark rulings from 1937 to 1992 still define where Congress drew them.
Robotics now touch most large-fleet e-commerce orders while warehousing injury rates run near double the private-industry average; the two facts are connected.
Statutory penalty maximums anchor the headlines, but settlement practice and reduction policy decide what employers actually pay. A reading of the 2025 numbers.
The NLRA protects concerted safety action and OSHA protects good-faith refusals of dangerous work; the two protections are not the same.
The FTC's 2024 noncompete rule was set aside nationwide by a Texas court before its effective date. What remains: a patchwork of state statutes that void or limit noncompetes and, increasingly, training-repayment terms.
Before any employment-discrimination case reaches a federal courtroom, it passes through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's charge system, which processes tens of thousands of discrimination charges each fiscal year.
Fair workweek ordinances require advance notice and premium pay for changes; evaluations find instability falls without measurable hour losses.
The 2024 economic-reality rule is on the books but unenforced by its own agency: a plain guide to the six factors and which test applies where.
Most unions file line-item financial reports with the Labor Department, and anyone can read them free online.
A salary alone does not make a worker exempt. The Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime carve-outs demand a fixed test: a paid-on-salary basis, a set weekly minimum, and duties that match the category by name.
Two parallel machines exist for grouping wage claims — the FLSA collective action and the Rule 23 class action — and the choice between them decides how workers join, opt out, and get paid.
A primer on who qualifies for overtime under the FLSA, the duties tests, and where the salary floor stands after the 2024 vacatur.
The Labor Department's May 2025 non-enforcement of the 2024 independent contractor rule changed who applies the economic-reality test, not what the test says.
A July 14, 2025 policy change rewards employers who correct cited hazards on the spot, reshaping how federal safety penalties get discounted.
From 30 percent card support to a certified bargaining order, the board's election process step by step.
Anyone can file a comment on a proposed overtime, safety or classification rule. Here is who files, what the agency must do with each one, and where comments actually change the text.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $250,000 settlement of its disability discrimination lawsuit against The Results Companies on April 21, 2025.
A citation is a proposal, not a final penalty, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission — not OSHA — holds the last word when an employer fights it.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division posted its strongest back-wage recovery in five years for fiscal 2025, even as a June policy change limits double damages in administrative cases.
A plain-language guide to what the recordkeeping rule logs, what the annual rate measures, and what both miss.
The charge is the required first step for most federal discrimination claims: what it is, the 180- and 300-day clocks, and what happens after filing.
Janus ended mandatory agency fees for government workers in 2018; private-sector workers still face a different fee regime.
Between a wage proposal and a binding workplace rule sits a fixed federal sequence: OIRA review, a published draft, public comments, and a final text that takes effect 30 days after publication.
After a 2025 quorum crisis, a Republican-appointed NLRB majority takes the docket into 2026.
From the filing of a charge to a federal court of appeals, the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement pipeline follows a fixed sequence that both workers and employers should understand.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual union file puts a number on the weekly earnings difference between covered and uncovered workers.
Judges questioned the NLRB's bargaining-order framework at Dec. 11, 2025 arguments; the challenge remains pending.
From complaint to supervised payment: what the federal wage investigator does, what it can recover, and what a worker gives up by choosing the administrative route.
The law demands good-faith bargaining after certification, but no deadline and no duty to agree, and first contracts show it.
An open-ended unfair labor practice strike timed to the chain's busiest promotion spread to about 120 stores by Black Friday.
