House Moves to Block More Labor Department Job Corps Closures
The Labor Department couldn’t unilaterally close Job Corps centers under a provision attached to a House spending bill Tuesday.

The rise in explicitly Christian messaging from some of President Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries is testing the boundaries of protections for and from workplace religious expression.
A federal appellate court vacated the dismissal of a Black firefighter’s claim that an Illinois city violated federal anti-bias law and fired him in retaliation for speaking to the EEOC about alleged race discrimination within his department.
A panel of appeals judges seemed receptive Monday to the EEOC’s request that it revive a disability bias case because the district court incorrectly threw out evidence of discrimination against a job applicant who disclosed use of pain medication for treatment.
The Trump administration is quietly pursuing the biggest expansion in decades of the federal electronic system used to verify workers’ employment eligibility via a proposal to overhaul its grant process.

President Donald Trump’s first major defeat in legal challenges to his $100,000 fee on new H-1B workers turned on whether the policy unlawfully supplants the exclusive tax power of Congress.

The Labor Department couldn’t unilaterally close Job Corps centers under a provision attached to a House spending bill Tuesday.
The EPA’s first effort to use an emerging type of scientific data to calculate the amount of a chemical that is hazardous drew praise from chemical manufacturers and criticism from environmental health groups, who said the agency ignored evidence of the chemicals’ harms.
The US Labor Department is providing more than $10 million in grant funding to support mine safety training, underscoring the Trump administration’s dual priorities of providing compliance assistance while expanding domestic mineral production.
A federal judge gave preliminary approval to a $200 billion settlement in a fight between
A Minnesota federal court paused a lawsuit seeking to determine whether a
Workers at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles reached a tentative agreement with management, averting the threat of a strike days before hosting the US team’s first World Cup football match.
A model allegedly denied the opportunity for male jobs after beginning his gender transition can pursue discrimination claims against his former agency, a federal magistrate judge in New York said.
A California district court must reconsider whether state or federal law allows
A new watchdog report on the IRS’s handing of a data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement undercuts the tax agency’s arguments in court, a new filing by a group suing over the issue said.
High profile unionization efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have drawn renewed interest in labor laws. In this video, we look at what’s legal and what isn't when a company's employees want to unionize.
Fox Rothschild LLP was sued Tuesday by a plaintiff who said the law firm failed to sufficiently protect her data from cybercriminals who may have taken her Social Security number.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Sripetch v. SEC opens doors for defense counsel to limit the SEC’s power to seize illegal profits, Buchalter’s Ashwin Ram writes.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is setting its sights on Texas as part of the transatlantic law firm’s plan to double its US revenue to $1 billion in the next five years.
Ching-Lee Fukuda and Tom Broughan joined Morrison Foerster as partners in its intellectual property litigation group and life sciences + healthcare industry practice, the firm announced Tuesday. Fukuda joined the New York office, while Broughan joined the Washington, D.C. office.
Andrew Yocopis joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in its real estate practice in Phoenix, the firm announced Tuesday.
Ryan Tansey joined King & Spalding as a partner in its business litigation practice in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.


A California federal court denied Microchip’s motion to decertify a class of former Atmel employees’ ERISA claims, finding common issues still predominated over individual considerations regarding releases. Schuman v. Microchip Tech. Inc., 2026 BL 209490, N.D. Cal., 16-cv-05544-HSG, 6/4/26
The National Labor Relations Board affirmed a ruling that Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act by changing dress code policy enforcement without providing the union an opportunity to bargain. Starbucks Corporation, 374 N.L.R.B. 130, N.L.R.B., 19–CA–295708, 6/5/26
The National Labor Relations Board upheld a ruling that Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act by asking workers at multiple Seattle locations about strike participation. Starbucks Corporation, 374 N.L.R.B. 128, N.L.R.B., 19-CA-299573, 6/5/26
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