Who Needs Congress when You Have Five (or Six) Supreme Court Justices? Should the Supreme Court claim that an interpretation of Title VII is wrong when Congress has, for decades, “left that apparent misinterpretation untouched”?
February 28, 2023 News & Commentary The Biden administration tackles exploitative child labor practices; Railroad reaches agreement on sick days; Supreme Court will look at CFPB funding.
February 24, 2023 News & Commentary Supreme Court rules high-earning professionals must be salaried to be overtime-exempt; federal judge rolls back nationwide injunction against Starbucks; OSHA fines another Amazon distribution center.
Ninth Circuit Invalidates California Law Against Forced Arbitration AB 51 was California’s latest effort to help workers enforce their rights in court. A federal court just struck it down.
January 15, 2023 News & Commentary Supreme Court grants cert to religious accommodation case, GOP House rules aim to eliminate staff unions
Glacier Gets Tort Law Wrong Too What the next big labor case in the Supreme Court gets wrong about tort law.
What Glacier Argues in Its Merits Brief A summary of the employer’s main arguments in the Supreme Court’s big labor case
Striketober Must Have Really Scared the Supreme Court Worker strikes in the U.S. are already rare measures of last resort. The Supreme Court might decide to discourage them even further.
Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform What the next big Supreme Court labor case means for workers' right to strike — and what Congress can do about it.
October 17, 2022 News & Commentary The debate over the tipped subminimum wage heats up; SCOTUS hears case on overtime for highly paid workers