The National Labor Relations Board has approximately 17,000 open unfair labor practice investigations on hand, including almost 10,000 cases that have been pending review for more than six months, according to an agency official.
When the US Department of Transportation launched the Reconnecting Communities program in 2021, it represented a landmark for the scholars and community advocates who have long sounded the alarm about the social and environmental costs of urban freeways.
Texas Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock unlawfully decertified thousands of women- and minority-owned contractors from a decades-old program intended to support “economically disadvantaged groups” in state contracting, a new lawsuit alleges.
The Trump administration’s approval of a highway construction through a Mojave desert tortoise habitat in Utah was temporarily blocked by a federal judge who ruled the Interior Department didn’t sufficiently analyze route alternatives.
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The Labor Department’s ever-shifting standards for defining independent contractors, combined with US Supreme Court precedent weakening agency authority, will likely diminish the impact of new Trump rulemaking on gig worker litigation.
The Labor Department’s contractor watchdog is undergoing a reorganization as its ultimate fate remains unclear. Meanwhile, the National Employment Law Project is grappling with the effects of staff layoffs and resignations.
The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer told regional agency officials to dial back efforts to police employer handbooks and workplace rules, calling for a focus on those that are obvious violations.
Labor Department attorneys should refrain from pursuing legal enforcement in unionized workplaces, Labor Solicitor Jonathan Berry said in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg Law.
A road construction company trying to revive a bid to eject its workers’ union ran into resistance from a federal appellate court dubious about its jurisdiction to consider the issue.
The 2017 tax overhaul included incentives to invest in distressed communities. Investors benefit from tax breaks and the designated opportunity zones benefit from economic investment, but critics say already-wealthy investors don’t need these breaks.
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