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Jun 18, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Eoin P. Beirne |Eóin Beirne |Geoffrey B. Fehling |Michael Levine |Amber M. Rogers
Skip to main content June 18, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 170 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Amber M. Rogers
On May 31, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) partially overturned a decision issued by the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) in Absolute Healthcare d/b/a Curaleaf Arizona v. National Labor Relations Board.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Amber M. Rogers
This past week, the EEOC filed suit against 15 different employers located across 11 different states. There was one common theme in each action: an employer’s failure to complete EEO-1 Component 1 reports for both 2021 and 2022. By filing these lawsuits, the EEOC is requesting courts to order these employers to fulfill their requirement of providing their company’s workforce demographic data.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Amber M. Rogers |Meredith Gregston
This past week, the EEOC filed suit against 15 different employers located across 11 different states. There was one common theme in each action: an employer’s failure to complete EEO-1 Component 1 reports for both 2021 and 2022. By filing these lawsuits, the EEOC is requesting courts to order these employers to fulfill their requirement of providing their company’s workforce demographic data.
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May 23, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Amber M. Rogers
In two cases filed in federal courts, workers at retail fast-food chains McDonald’s and Wendy’s are taking advantage of the new protections granted them by the 2022 Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act).
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Amber M. Rogers
A few months ago, we wrote about the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) publishing its widely anticipated final joint-employer rule (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule overrules the NLRB’s 2020 joint-employer rule and broadly expands the definition of joint-employer under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”). See Standard for Determining Joint Employer Status, 88 Fed. Reg. 73946 (October 27, 2023) (to be codified at 29 C.F.R. pt. 103).
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Kurt G. Larkin |Amber M. Rogers |Liisa M. Thomas |Kathryn Smith
Skip to main content December 22, 2023 Volume XIII, Number 356 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found. Trending News Finland | Applications Based on Family Ties Experiencing Backlogs Print Mail Download i Finnish authorities announced that immigration offices are experiencing a significant backlog in processing applications based on family ties.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Kurt G. Larkin |Amber M. Rogers
In an historic development for the financial services industry, a group of employees at a Wells Fargo branch bank in Albuquerque, New Mexico voted this week to join Wells Fargo Workers United, a grassroots labor union backed by the Communications Workers of America. The successful vote marks the first time in memory that employees at a major U.S. bank have elected to unionize. Workers at Wells Fargo branches in California and Florida have also filed for union elections in the past month alone.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
hrdive.com | Carolyn Crist |Ryan Golden |Caroline Colvin |Amber M. Rogers
Backlash to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts came to a head this year after a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in late June that declared affirmative action admission programs unconstitutional. But the inklings of broader DEI pushback began far before that decision was handed down.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
legaldive.com | Amber M. Rogers |Meredith Gregston
Amber Rogers is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP; Meredith Gregston is a senior attorney at the firm. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Harvard and UNC’s race-based admissions policies (more commonly known as “affirmative action”) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits States from denying any person equal protection of the laws of the United States, as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
