From our Capital Thinking blog, our public policy colleague Stacy Swanson shares the latest federal employment law developments in in the legislative and executive branches during the week of January 10, 2022.
This is a weekly post spotlighting labor topics in focus by the US legislative and executive branches during the previous week.
In this issue, we cover:
The U.S. Congress was in session this week. U.S. President Joe Biden focused this week on Voting Rights, traveling to Georgia early in the week and meeting with Democratic Senators this week to press them to change the filibuster rules, which would allow them to advance Democratic-led voting right bills over unified Republican opposition. Senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) have repeatedly said that they do not support changing the filibuster rules to permit passage of the legislation with a simple majority vote, continuing to frustrate their Democratic colleagues and the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated opinion on some of the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandates this week, striking down one and upholding another. President Biden updated the nation this week on his Administration’s efforts to address the Omicron COVID-19 variant surge, announcing some additional...
The Kroger Sued for False Advertising case is raising fresh concerns about transparency in supermarket meat departments, as Animal Outlook accuses the retail giant of misleading in-store marketing...