The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's leaders recently expanded their authority to approve or scuttle new lawsuits, a move that will shift enforcement priorities and reflects sentiments that had been brewing at the agency for years, experts say. Here are three things to know about the power shift at the EEOC.
A former worker asked the Eleventh Circuit Thursday to order a new trial in a suit accusing an Alabama steel mill of failing to fully compensate him for hours worked and overtime, arguing there was nothing to support the jury awarding him $0 in Fair Labor Standards Act damages.
The recent withdrawal of a National Labor Relations Board complaint accusing the Salvation Army of restricting its workers' organizing rights may be a sign of things to come under the agency's new general counsel, though the signal is fuzzy.