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President Donald Trump has assumed essentially unlimited discretion to choose how many government employees lose their job security, under a rule that critics say threatens to upend the nonpartisan professional nature of the federal civilian workforce that has existed since the 1880s.
Reinvigorated lawsuits from federal worker unions and advocates will face a series of hurdles in challenging a new regulation that makes it easier for the president to fire nonpolitical public employees.
Staffing reductions at the Labor Department’s benefits regulator have put the agency at a “breaking point” as it attempts to oversee the nation’s vast retirement and health care benefits system, a former senior official said.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected a nursing home operator’s attempt to freeze a long-running National Labor Relations Board case based on alleged constitutional defects with the agency’s in-house judges.

The EEOC’s new requirement for commissioner approval to bring most lawsuits puts more power in the Republican-controlled commission’s hands, even as the shift threatens to slow the pace and number of cases brought.


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A former attorney sued Blank Rome LLP on Friday after the firm allegedly failed to protect her from a male colleague who the attorney said sexually assaulted her.
The Allied Pilots Association, which represents more than 16,000 American Airlines pilots, sent a letter to the American Airlines board urging “decisive action” to address what it called persistent operational, financial, and leadership failures.
An additional 3,000 pharmacy and lab technicians at Kaiser Permanente facilities will walk off the job Monday in an escalation of an ongoing health-care strike over alleged unfair labor practices.
A law firm and an attorney formerly based in its Washington, DC, office have reached a settlement in principle addressing her disability discrimination and retaliation claims.
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Paying one man more than one woman for substantially equal work is enough to violate the Equal Pay Act and proof of how the sexes are paid as a group isn’t required, the EEOC said.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it put the director of its diversity office on administrative leave last month because she caused the agency to mistakenly post an unapproved draft version of its annual diversity report that didn’t match one it sent to Congress.
High profile unionization efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have drawn renewed interest in labor laws. In this video, we look at what’s legal and what isn't when a company's employees want to unionize.
A former attorney sued Blank Rome LLP on Friday after the firm allegedly failed to protect her from a male colleague who the attorney said sexually assaulted her.
Cadwalader litigation practice leaders Nicholas Gravante and Phil Iovieno resigned on Friday due to conflicts of interest with clients of the firm’s partner in a planned merger, Hogan Lovells.
Companies are warning political uncertainty in Venezuela could impact revenue or operations following recent US military intervention in the country.
Insulet Corp. can add $15 million in attorneys fees to its $59.4 million victory over EOFlow Co. Ltd. in an insulin pump trade secrets dispute, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled.
All four Big Law firms fighting President Donald Trump’s executive orders will make their arguments against the directives on the same day, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Arbitrator Nicholas ruled Medstar Hospital lacked just cause to fire a 16-year employee for allegedly threatening coworkers with a small knife, ordering reinstatement with back pay due to an inadequate investigation and the grievant’s clean disciplinary record. Medstar Washington Hospital Center , 2025 BNA LA 325, Arb., 32-A-23, J. Nicholas, 11/14/25
Arbitrator Gregory P. Szuter ruled that the City of Bedford, Ohio didn’t violate its collective bargaining agreement with the local AFSCME union when it only granted one day of funeral leave to the grievant, who was attending his grandfather’s funeral, when he had originally requested three days of such leave. City of Bedford, Ohio, Arb., 01-25-0002-8824, G. Szuter, 1/23/26
A New York state trial court denied summary judgment on breach of contract claims between Frosch Travel and its former president, finding factual disputes about confidential information and misrepresentations, but the court dismissed a duplicative faithless servant claim. Frosch Int’l Travel, Inc. v. Botbol, 2026 BL 36269, N.Y. Sup. Ct., INDEX NO. 653071/2020, 1/9/26
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