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OPM finalizes rules moving federal RIF appeals from board to agency
Two final rules published August 3 shift appeals of furloughs, separations and demotions to OPM itself, effective September 2, ending the MSPB hearing route.
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Supreme Court to weigh the Labor Department's farmworker enforcement power
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.
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Justice Department opinion calls EEOC disparate-impact guidance unconstitutional
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.
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Lawsuit says the EEOC stopped hearing federal workers' class cases
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.
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Labor Department recovers 613,037 dollars for 46 gyro restaurant workers
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.
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Jury orders Arkansas hospital to pay 105,000 dollars in EEOC sex discrimination suit
A federal jury found Northwest Arkansas Hospitals liable under Title VII on a male surgical technician's claim and awarded compensatory and punitive damages.
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Labor board and New York agree to dismiss preemption lawsuit
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.
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OSHA proposes 349,754-dollar penalty against Florida roofing contractor
Federal inspectors cite Orchids Builders for two willful and four repeated fall protection violations at residential jobsites, proposing penalties of nearly 350,000 dollars.
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D.C. Circuit strikes down the labor board's successor bar doctrine
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.
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EEOC votes to rescind its 1979 voluntary affirmative action guidance
The commission's June 29 vote pulls the federal interpretive framework that employers long relied on when running voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.