The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a flurry of lawsuits and rescinded long-standing affirmative action guidance, while the University of Tennessee, Knoxville reached a tentative $1.9 million deal with a professor who said she was illegally fired for criticizing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after his killing. Here, Law360 looks back at a short but active week in employment law.
A New York City black car company must rehire a group of workers it fired after they hit it with a wage lawsuit, the Second Circuit held Thursday, agreeing with the National Labor Relations Board that the terminations were an act of retaliation.
The first half of 2026 saw federal courts increase their scrutiny of the National Labor Relations Board’s decisions, while the agency tinkered within Biden-era policy as it awaits the confirmation of a third Republican member. Here, Law360 looks at some of the most significant labor law decisions that came out in the first half of the year.