The Trump administration announced a final rule creating a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire. The new rule implements an Executive Order from 2025 that could...
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On February 4, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Nike in the Eastern District of Missouri, claiming the company had not complied with the agency’s requests for information in its...
Law students who had sued over the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) demands for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) data from law firms agreed to dismiss their lawsuit against the EEOC when the agency...
In his first few days back in office, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14173, which rescinded EO 11246 and added a new requirement that federal grantees—including federal contractors—certify they have no...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with a quorum of three, has once again become a functioning agency, but in an unprecedented setting and facing unprecedented challenges. Captive Board? With the termination of...
On February 11, 2026, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a notification to federal contractors that as a result of the recent U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, it would release...
On February 6, 2026, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a notice stating that the new minimum hourly wage for federal contractors would be $13.65, while the minimum wage for tipped employees will be $9.55 per hour...
In his peevish, petulant, and puerile response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs, the president once again revealed what he has done little to obscure— everything has only to do with him. His excoriating, grossly...
After the longest government shutdown in history, caused by Congress’ inability to draft a budget, there appeared to be little interest in repeating that episode. As a result, at the time of this writing, Congress was...
On January 14, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-to-1 in its first public hearing of 2026 to rescind its voting procedures that set out a timeline for individual commissioners to review...
On January 22, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-to-1 to rescind the harassment guidance issued under the Biden administration. The EEOC submitted the rescission as final to Office of...
On January 21, 2026, the Supreme Court heard the next and perhaps most significant case testing the president’s power to summarily terminate any member of the executive branch and personally control the economy. Fed...
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) long period of forced obsolescence has ended with the swearing in of NLRB Members Scott Mayer and James Murphy and General Counsel (GC) Crystal Carey. Facing a huge backlog and...
After spending the first year of his second term demonizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and retooling workplace agencies to focus on discrimination against white men, President Trump opened the second year by...
As Congress rushes to avoid another shutdown, it has a bipartisan agreement to provide the Department of Labor (DOL) with a budget of $13.7 billion for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2026. The budget would provide the...