Massachusetts is a hot spot for wage and hour issues, with state courts approaching decisions in gig worker battles and voters potentially weighing in this fall on proposed statewide measures regarding app-based drivers and the tipped minimum wage. Here, Law360 explores three key issues to watch.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told an appeals court that a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling strengthens a worker's disability bias case in an emphatic brief that experts say foreshadows the agency's aggressive push to use the high court decision to tip the scales in employees' favor.
A Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday paused an ongoing National Labor Relations Board suit against SpaceX to consider the company's challenge to what it calls the "effective" denial of its bid to block a suit by an agency it claims is unconstitutional.