New York City and Chicago are mulling novel measures that could boost unions' efforts to organize what are known as last-mile drivers by forcing Amazon and other shippers to directly hire the contract drivers they lean on to move goods from warehouses to residents in these populous cities.
A security company reduced a security guard's nonovertime wage only when he worked 60-hour weeks in an attempt to avoid paying overtime, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, affirming the worker's win in Florida federal court.
The Washington, D.C., federal judge set to decide if the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must continue probing disparate impact discrimination claims is known as a fair and detail-oriented jurist who has credited his wide-ranging experience — including as a corporate lawyer and a police officer — with preparing him for the bench.