Leora Smith is a student at Harvard Law School.
The EEOC is getting serious about the right to use a bathroom that conforms with your gender identity. A new fact sheet lays out requirements for workplace bathrooms, and makes it clear that employers who fail to provide access to bathrooms that align with employees’ gender identities are engaging in gender discrimination that violates Title VII. Read a summary of the fact sheet here.
Today, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto will be in Washington, D.C. to continue his conversation with President Obama about trade, immigration and security. In The Huffington Post Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, outlines three points he hopes the Presidents will discuss.
While it felt like everyone was glued to the #RNCinCLE (Republican National Convention in Cleveland) hashtag on Twitter this week, a number of groups hosted an interesting and informative Twitter discussion about the minimum wage yesterday using the hashtag #MinWageChat. And on that note – Minneapolis just got one step closer to a $15/hr minimum wage
And the Department of Justice submitted a request for the Supreme Court to rehear the case U.S. v. Texas, once they have a full 9-person bench next term. The deadlocked decision in the case means that the lower court’s injunction on President Obama’s far-reaching immigration plans, expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and creating Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, still stands. In their request to the court, the DOJ writes that this is a matter of such “great national importance” that the nation deserves a clear ruling from the Supreme Court. Even if the court agrees, there is no guaranteeing that the next term will see a full 9-Justice panel to hear the case.
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September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.
September 9
Ninth Circuit revives Trader Joe’s lawsuit against employee union; new bill aims to make striking workers eligible for benefits; university lecturer who praised Hitler gets another chance at First Amendment claims.