Elias Schisgall

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Rebecca Klar |Elias Schisgall

Confirmation hearing raises concerns about Trump’s ordersAgency head pushed on dismissal of transgender bias casesActing EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas defended her view during her Senate panel confirmation hearing that the civil rights agency is not independent from the president’s authority as she fielded questions about its recent work. Democrats on the Senate’s labor committee raised the issue repeatedly at the Wednesday hearing.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Rebecca Rainey |Elias Schisgall

President Donald Trump’s nominee for US Labor Department chief attorney sought to separate himself from his Project 2025 proposals, vowing to enforce workplace laws and emphasizing that the position doesn’t involve policymaking. Jonathan Berry, who authored the Project 2025 chapter on the DOL, told lawmakers Wednesday his participation in the conservative blueprint was merely scholarly.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Elias Schisgall

Seventy House Democrats demanded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission resume enforcing anti-discrimination measures for transgender and nonbinary workers in a new letter. The members wrote Friday to Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, accusing the commission of failing to properly enforce Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect these workers during President Donald Trump’s second term. The lawmakers’ letter coincides with the fifth anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Bostock v.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Elias Schisgall

Democrats say EEOC fails to enforce Title VII for trans workersLetter highlights clashing interpretations of Bostock rulingSeventy House Democrats demanded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission resume enforcing anti-discrimination measures for transgender and nonbinary workers in a new letter.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Elias Schisgall |Maia Spoto

As the Trump administration’s deportation efforts ramp up, unions are increasingly on the frontlines with workers in protest despite limited options and evolving court precedent. The recent arrest of SEIU California labor leader David Huerta during a raid in downtown Los Angeles puts at the forefront the question of unions’ roles when federal agents come knocking.