In his commentary, Matthew Siegel’s examines elements of Labor Law §240(1)—the “Scaffold Law,”­ which he believes many in the ...

The NLRB maintains independence in part because its Board members’ terms are five years. This is intentional, Poydock says, ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies, revealed in a letter by Acting ...

The Trump Administration has told the Judiciary Committee that they plan on asking the Supreme Court to overule their ...

President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already ...

In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the high court held in 1935 that a president must have cause to fire the member of a ...

A federal judge said the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program for federal workers could move forward, allowing the White House to advance a critical part of its plan to reduce the ...

Laws governing several, lesser-known agencies protect certain officials from removal, except for cause. Trump is betting ...

President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable his most aggressive actions.

The new president is ignoring precedent and the law by firing officials and trying to bring independent bodies under White ...