The Teamsters' recent settlement with Amazon resolving allegations that the company unlawfully deducted time off from striking workers without restoring it could boost the union's pitch to employees as it seeks to organize the e-commerce giant, experts said.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent win in a subpoena enforcement action against the University of Pennsylvania marked a noteworthy development in one of several high-profile EEOC suits seeking to pry information from employers that the agency is investigating. Law360's EEOC Subpoena Enforcement Tracker gives attorneys a new tool to stay up to date on these court battles.
A New York state senator’s bill that threatens employers with stop-work orders if they are found to have misclassified workers as independent contractors is moving forward to address what the lawmaker says is an issue impacting hundreds of thousands of workers and law-abiding businesses. Sen. Pete Harckham spoke with Law360 about the legislation.