Public employee unions expressed support for requiring Covid vaccines for federal workers as President Joe Biden moved to impose such a plan, while local and state mandates drew criticism from labor leaders in New York City, Illinois and California.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. and Deloitte Touche LLP failed to convince a federal judge in New York to throw out class claims that a company parental leave policy penalizes pregnant women when they return.

The Senate confirmed union attorney Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, filling a Democratic seat that had been vacant since 2018.

After working together for more than a year to promote worker safety during the pandemic, organized labor leaders increasingly are divided over vaccine mandates aimed at stopping a new and potentially more deadly coronavirus strain from ravaging the U.S. workforce.

President Joe Biden vowed the strongest enforcement ever for rules that require the federal government to favor American vendors when they purchase goods, saying his predecessors had too freely allowed exceptions.

A Black former Steak ‘n Shake, Inc. server who complained that her manager made racially derogatory comments shouldn’t get to proceed with her race discrimination and hostile work environment claims, a federal judge in Pennsylvania recommended.