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The NLRB ruled that students who work as teaching assistants at colleges and universities are "employees" under the NLRA and are thus permitted to engage in collective bargaining.

There's no question that today's social and political climate has affected school campuses across the country in ways that have not been experienced in decades.

The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler's Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI's updates on federal, state, and local matters...

The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler's Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI's updates on federal, state, and local matters, as well as Littler's published in-depth analyses of the prior week.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held in Sabatini v. Knouse that a student sexually harassed in an academic setting may sue the individual perpetrator directly under G. L. c. 214, § 1C, not just the educational...

The Supreme Court issued an opinion that upholds a Michigan law prohibiting the use of race as a factor in admissions to public colleges and universities.

Today began with a meeting with co-counsel and clients to follow through on matters we had resolved by agreement reached earlier in the summer.

In both studies, the researchers advocated for education and outreach programs that aim to bolster financial and health literacy in older adults.

On May 11, 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register final rules that make significant changes to Medicare direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) payment policies with respect to residents training in sites that are not part of the hospital (nonhospital sites).

On February 9, 2016, the Obama administration released its fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request. Released on an annual basis, the President's budget request generally plays three key roles...

On Monday, November 15, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P. L. 117 – 58), a historic bipartisan piece of legislation that will make available $1.2 trillion...

In a recent ruling with implications for recipients of federal funding, the Supreme Court of the United States held that emotional distress damages are unavailable in private actions to enforce either the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or...

President Biden's Executive Order 14042 (EO 14042) requires covered federal contractor employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 18, 2022, if they are not entitled to an accommodation due to disability or religion.

On March 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it is temporarily suspending premium processing of H-1B skilled worker visa applications for up to six months, beginning on April 3, 2017/

Last week, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over newly announced...

You may know the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") from the widely deployed DMCA take-down notices that copyright owners use to remove putatively infringing content from the Internet.

Challenges to the use of potentially objectionable terms by organizations has hit the headlines once again.