Federal workers' unions told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration is trying to fill the government workforce with loyalists, urging him to forbid the administration to ask prospective hires how they'd advance the president's priorities.
The Eighth Circuit refused on Wednesday to reinstate a religious discrimination suit from two Christian workers who challenged a Minnesota county's COVID-19 vaccine policy, despite a dissent that said forcing an employee to undergo weekly saliva testing to keep her job was harmful enough to sustain a bias claim.
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The Sixth Circuit's decision striking down a bargaining order against a distiller could cause the National Labor Relations Board to rethink its 2023 Cemex ruling that established a new standard for issuing such orders, but also raises fundamental questions about how the board changes precedent through its decisions, experts said.