A group of California shoe store workers didn’t present enough evidence of widespread policies or practices that applied uniformly to revive their break and overtime claims against their employer, a California state appeals court ruled.

The National Labor Relations Board again extended the deadline for public comments on its proposed changes to rules that govern the elections process when workers want to form a union or oust an existing one.

Higher wage gains continue to elude unions in contract deliberations as organized labor is on pace to end the year with average wage increases below or equivalent to last year’s levels, according to Bloomberg Law’s latest bi-weekly update of collective bargaining settlements.

The EPA and its biggest union have agreed to return to the bargaining table and hammer out a new contract, agency chief Andrew Wheeler said in an internal email Dec. 5.

The National Labor Relations Board used flawed data to support a rule change that would reduce unions’ power to defend against anti-labor campaigns, a Bloomberg Law analysis found. Deficiencies in the data could weaken the board’s defense in a legal challenge, two administrative law professors said.

Anthem was sued in Virginia federal court by a former call-center employee who says the health insurance and benefits company didn’t pay overtime and fired her based on an outside background check, without giving her notice or the chance to respond.