Employment law litigants emerged from the US Supreme Court’s latest term with legal fodder that can fuel new clashes over hot-button issues like decades-old workplace discrimination standards and the inclusion of uninjured class members in wage-and-hour cases.
The high court tackled federal overtime exemptions, retiree disability discrimination claims, and civil rights cases against state agencies over the past nine months. Additionally, its rulings on nationwide injunctions and class standing will stretch into the labor and employment space.
But the justices also issued concurring, dissenting, and plurality opinions that—though nonbinding—can be used to address long-standing disputes that have created a more ...
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