As Covid-19 vaccine exemption lawsuits wane, other religious worker accommodations will drive both private litigation and government enforcement in the year ahead over some employees’ beliefs clashing with protections for their LGBTQ+ colleagues.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recovered a total of $135,000 for pregnant employees at two different companies based in Florida, who were fired after requesting accommodations under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, the agency said in a statement.

The US Chamber of Commerce is appealing a federal court’s refusal to block the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas that are heavily relied on by American technology companies for hiring skilled foreign workers.

Amazon.com Inc lost its appeals court attempt to halt a National Labor Relations Board case while it litigates its constitutional challenge to the legal shields protecting board members and administrative law judges from being fired by the president.

Jessica Looman, the Biden-era leader of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, will serve as Virginia’s next labor secretary.

A San Francisco law school won’t have to face a former student’s disability bias claims because there’s no indication the school was “on notice” that he was suffering from a disability that needed to be accommodated.