Outlook 2018: Supreme Court—What’s at Stake for the Workplace

The financial future of public sector unions and the fate of class action waivers in arbitration agreements are the two big-ticket labor and employment issues the U.S. Supreme Court will decide before the end of the 2017-2018 term.

The justices will also determine which employees qualify as financial whistle-blowers, whether car dealership service advisers are entitled to federal overtime pay, and the time frame in which employees can file state law claims in state court after losing federal claims.

Those three cases perhaps haven’t received the same amount of attention as the union fee and class arbitration cases, but they ...