Melissa Greenberg is a student at Harvard Law School.
Yesterday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing on Wilbur Ross, President-elect Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary. At the hearing, Ross continued to show support for a renegotiation of NAFTA, a frequent topic for Trump during the campaign. Ross also indicated that China’s trade practices would be a target of trade enforcement actions under the next president. Read more about the hearing here and access a video of the confirmation hearing here.
President-elect Trump’s actions aimed at keeping jobs in the United States have continued to garner news coverage. The New York Times compiled a list of company announcements regarding retention of jobs in the U.S., organizing the announcements into three categories: companies which “announced plans after Trump singled them out,” companies which “held up job plans after criticism from Trump,” and companies which “have kept plans despite criticism from Trump.” For the full list, read more here.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the Department of Labor filed actions alleging discriminatory employment practices at JPMorgan Chase and Oracle. The Department filed a complaint against JPMorgan with an administrative law judge in New York alleging that at least 93 women employed at the company were paid less than men in similar positions. In the action against Oracle, OFCCP alleged both hiring and pay discrimination. The complaint asserts that Oracle paid white men more than similarly situated employees and Oracle impermissibly favored Asian men for certain technical positions over others applying for those jobs. USA Today situates this enforcement action against Oracle in the context of the Department’s “more aggressive” enforcement of labor laws against tech companies in Silicon Valley in recent months. As evidence of the Department’s heightened focus on Silicon Valley, the article points to recent actions initiated by the Department of Labor against Google and Palantir.
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July 14
More circuits weigh in on two-step certification; Uber challengers Seattle deactivation ordinance.
July 13
APWU and USPS ratify a new contract, ICE barred from racial profiling in Los Angeles, and the fight continues over the dismantling of NIOSH
July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
the Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings; Secretary of Agriculture suggests Medicaid recipients replace deported migrant farmworkers; DHS ends TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]