Delta Air Lines Inc. signed a corporatewide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect workers who operate baggage handling vehicles.  The agreement covers approximately 90 of the company's airport sites that fall under OSHA's jurisdiction, as well as 16,000 Delta employees and 6,000 baggage handling vehicles.

On April 13, 2012, a South Carolina federal district court held that the National Labor Relations Board "exceeded its authority in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act" with its notice posting rule, which would have required most employers to post a notice regarding the rights of employees to organize and join a union.  Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. NLRB, No. 2:11-cv-02516-DCN, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (April 13, 2012).

Rejecting arguments that the self-care provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act, was geared toward remedying a pattern of sex discrimination, a four-justice plurality found that Congress did not reveal any evidence that state employees were subjected to sex-based discrimination in the provision of sick leave and short-term disability plans.  Thus, Congress did not validly exercise its power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment when it abrogated states' sovereign immunity from lawsuits under the self-care provision of the FMLA (Coleman v. Ct. of App. of Md., U.S., No. 10-1016, 3/20/12).