Labor & Employment Research Examples
Real Labor & Employment research prompts, run end to end in Midpage — each with the full exchange, linked authorities, and citator treatment.
Transfers & Adverse Action After Muldrow
Post-2024 decisions applying Muldrow v. City of St. Louis’s "some harm" test to lateral transfers, shift assignments, and other job changes — where the lowered threshold now revives claims at the pleading stage, and why plaintiffs who cannot tie a change to an identifiable term or condition of employment still lose.
Majority-Group Plaintiffs After Ames
How circuits are applying Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services’ uniform prima facie standard to reverse-discrimination and DEI-related claims — the Third Circuit’s extension of Ames to state anti-discrimination law, why bare diversity preferences fail as legitimate reasons, and where DEI-training suits still founder on severe-or-pervasive doctrine.
Religious Accommodation After Groff
A worked example of briefing a scheduling-accommodation dispute under Groff v. DeJoy’s "substantial increased costs" test — the employer’s heightened proof burden, the Ninth Circuit’s bar on hypothetical hardship, and where shift swaps and seniority systems fit after Groff.
FLSA Exemption Burden of Proof
Where the employer’s burden of proof stands after E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera — the preponderance standard now governing executive, administrative, and professional exemption fights under 29 C.F.R. Part 541, and how appellate and district courts are retiring the "clear and convincing" and "plainly and unmistakably" formulations.
Independent Contractor Classification
Where gig-worker classification stands now that the DOL’s 2024 rule is in effect: the six-factor totality-of-the-circumstances test at 29 C.F.R. § 795.110, why direct challenges to the rule keep failing on standing, and how the circuits weigh control, investment, and contractual labels on the merits.
Section 10(j) Injunctions After Starbucks v. McKinney
Post-McKinney decisions putting NLRB § 10(j) petitions through the ordinary Winter analysis — the Second Circuit ordering an injunction the district court refused, the Sixth Circuit vacating one for lack of non-speculative irreparable harm, and what now separates grants from denials.