The National Labor Relations Board’s top attorney said athletes at private colleges qualify as employees under federal labor law, entitling them to protection from retaliation for speaking out about the need for pay and working conditions.

FDA review of Covid-19 vaccines for school-age children and other pandemic matters would likely weather a government shutdown without interruption, but other high stakes work could fall to the wayside.

The Biden administration will reach its decarbonization goals even if Congress fails to pass a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy said Wednesday.

Qualcomm Inc. won its bid to undo a district court order certifying a class of 250 million people in antitrust litigation over its alleged monopoly of modern cellphone chips, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday the court erred in its choice of law analysis.

A federal government shutdown could hamper the EPA in unexpected ways that may cause ripple effects throughout the economy, attorneys and former agency officials say.

In Marty Walsh‘s early weeks as U.S. labor secretary, he was thrust into White House meetings over a controversial virus workplace-safety regulation and immediately began working to sell the president’s jobs agenda—all while learning a new bureaucracy via virtual staff briefings from his Boston home.