Latest Labor and Employment Cases for May 21, 2018

The following are summaries of the latest court and National Labor Relations Board rulings involving labor law, wage and hour, discrimination, disabilities and individual employment rights, prepared by Bloomberg Law legal editors.

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Arbitration

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers don’t violate federal labor law by requiring their employees to individually arbitrate their employment disputes. Groups of workers seeking to sue their employers collectively for wage-and-hour violations argued that their lawsuits are “concerted activity” protected by federal labor law and couldn’t be barred by their arbitration agreements, but the Supreme Court disagreed, holding that Congress ...