Welcome to Labor of Law, our labor and employment dispatch on the big cases, issues and trends. On the clock: Questioning NDAs, and the US Labor Department is pressed to revise policy about private equity in 401(k). A Fox News correspondent is fired—scroll down for Who Got the Work. Plus: all the big covid-19 workplace headlines.
Big development at the U.S. Supreme Court: Today, the justices declined—without comment—to take up the Equal Pay Act case Yovino v. Rizo. Now, the Ninth Circuit’s ruling will remain in effect—that decision says employers cannot rely on prior salary history to justify compensation disparities between male and female colleagues performing the same work.
