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      <title>Union Decertification: How Workers Vote Out Representation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 30% petition, a narrow filing window, and a majority vote — the legal path off a union contract, mapped against the rules that govern it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:31:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How a federal workplace rule gets made: the notice-and-comment pipeline</title>
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      <title>Missouri repeals the paid sick leave voters approved</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[House Bill 567 ended Missouri's earned paid sick time mandate August 28, 2025 and froze minimum wage inflation adjustments, repealing what voters passed.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[OPM published final rules August 3, 2026 moving RIF furlough, separation and demotion appeals to OPM with a 30-day window, effective September 2.]]></description>
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      <title>Supreme Court to weigh the Labor Department&apos;s farmworker enforcement power</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Court agreed to decide whether the Labor Department may independently sue to enforce farmworker pay protections. The case is pending; no ruling yet.]]></description>
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      <title>Justice Department opinion calls EEOC disparate-impact guidance unconstitutional</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel concluded June 9, 2026 that the EEOC's Title VII disparate-impact guidelines are unconstitutional.]]></description>
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      <title>Shift work and the body clock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Who works non-day shifts, what NIOSH research says about the health evidence, and the schedule design rules that follow from it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lawsuit says the EEOC stopped hearing federal workers&apos; class cases</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A union-backed suit alleges the EEOC unlawfully stopped hearing class-style discrimination complaints by federal workers, per Reuters, July 28, 2026.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Labor Department recovers 613,037 dollars for 46 gyro restaurant workers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Wage and Hour Division recovered $613,037 for 46 workers at four companies operating NY Gyro restaurants in Minnesota, per a July 28, 2026 finding.]]></description>
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      <title>Jury orders Arkansas hospital to pay 105,000 dollars in EEOC sex discrimination suit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A federal jury found Northwest Arkansas Hospitals liable for sex discrimination against a male surgical technician, awarding $105,000, July 28, 2026.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Labor board and New York agree to dismiss preemption lawsuit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The NLRB and New York agreed July 27, 2026 to dismiss the agency's challenge to a state law shifting federal labor cases to PERB during quorum gaps.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Malik Johnson</dc:creator>
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      <title>DOL moves to scrap the 2024 independent contractor rule</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A proposed rule published February 27, 2026 would scrap the 2024 six-factor contractor test and restore the 2021 two-factor approach. Nothing changes un.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>OSHA proposes 349,754-dollar penalty against Florida roofing contractor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[OSHA cited Orchids Builders LLC for two willful and four repeated fall protection violations, proposing $349,754 in penalties, on July 23, 2026.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>D.C. Circuit strikes down the labor board&apos;s successor bar doctrine</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A divided D.C. Circuit panel held July 21, 2026 that the NLRB's successor bar doctrine exceeds the NLRA. What the remand means for buyers and workers.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Malik Johnson</dc:creator>
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      <title>EEOC votes to rescind its 1979 voluntary affirmative action guidance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The EEOC voted June 29 to rescind its 1979 voluntary affirmative action guidelines, published in the Federal Register July 6. What changes under Title VII.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Landrum-Griffin explained: members' Title I rights, exhaustion rules, election protest deadlines, and Labor Department suits.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What employers may legally monitor, the state notice laws that require disclosure, and the three routes for challenging metric-based discipline.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The FMLA protects the job but not the paycheck; state programs pay wages. How the two laws overlap, run concurrently, or leave a worker uncovered.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A primer on employment arbitration: the FAA's scope, class waivers, the 2022 harassment exception, union grievance arbitration.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How scheduling and scoring software collides with the NLRA, what the 2022 NLRB memo directed, and why union contracts can open the black box.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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