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June 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that the agency will close its New York City office of administrative law judges in July and transfer pending cases to Washington, D.C.
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June 13, 2024
Attorneys from Philadelphia-area law firms Edelson Lechtzin LLP and Willig Williams & Davidson have asked for appointment as interim co-lead counsel for a potential class of former University of the Arts employees who say the school's sudden closure violated federal statutes.
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June 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has granted a Service Employees International Union local's request to stay a representation election at a New York security company, indicating its willingness to consider whether the local was improperly excluded from the running and whether case law from 1984 should stand.
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June 13, 2024
Starbucks illegally maintained a policy telling workers to communicate in a professional and respectful way, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the coffee chain hadn't shown how the rule furthered its business interests.
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June 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for the National Labor Relations Board to win injunctions against employers Thursday in a case involving Starbucks, directing courts to strictly apply a four-factor test when the board sues to stem alleged unfair labor practices.
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June 12, 2024
Republican members on a U.S. House of Representatives labor subcommittee teed off on the National Labor Relations Board's direction under Democratic Chairman Lauren McFerran at a hearing Wednesday as their counterparts in the U.S. Senate consider her recent nomination for a third term.
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June 12, 2024
The Fifth Circuit said Wednesday that it will continue weighing whether a Texas federal judge must pause an administrative suit against SpaceX from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board, amid the company's constitutional challenge to the agency's structure.
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June 12, 2024
An arbitrator has found a Service Employees International Union affiliate liable for more than $6 million in damages for replacement worker costs from a strike, a California hospital said Wednesday, while a union representative told Law360 that the decision is "outrageous and unprecedented."
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June 12, 2024
Home Depot reached a proposed settlement to an allegation that it violated federal labor law by telling a Minneapolis worker to keep quiet about the company's investigation into his claims of racist treatment by a coworker, according to paperwork presented to a National Labor Relations Board judge.
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June 12, 2024
A Massachusetts cannabis retailer found to have engaged in union busting is appealing a district court order that directed it to bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local and to offer to rehire two fired union supporters.
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June 12, 2024
A security guards union violated federal labor law by continuing to collect dues from certain guards at the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington, D.C., after they revoked the union's authorization to do so, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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June 12, 2024
The Second Circuit vacated on Wednesday a New York federal judge's order barring Amazon from firing workers for engaging in union activity, saying the judge did not explain why she imposed the broad prohibition while at the same time finding the company did not have to rehire a fired union activist.
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June 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's final rule including protections for foreign farmworkers within the H-2A visa program doesn't comport with federal labor law, a group of Republican attorneys general claimed in Georgia federal court, saying the rule doesn't give the same rights to U.S. citizen workers.
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June 11, 2024
A landmark settlement the NCAA announced in May in an antitrust class action brought by former college athletes reportedly sets a path for schools to share revenue with players, and experts said it could bolster active efforts to deem college athletes employees under federal labor law.
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June 11, 2024
A UPS worker accused a Teamsters affiliate in Illinois federal court of violating its fair representation duty by "colluding" with the shipping giant to slash his hours and pay him incorrectly while also alleging that the company retaliated against him for an unfair labor practice charge.
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June 11, 2024
A Phoenix cannabis dispensary asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board order compelling the company to recognize a United Food and Commercial Workers local, saying the board shouldn't have certified the union because of an issue with the election notice.
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June 11, 2024
Former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to postpone his sentencing for his bribery and embezzlement convictions, pointing to the possibility of the government retrying him on extortion charges following an April mistrial in that case.
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June 11, 2024
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and other union leaders are under investigation over allegations of retaliation and financial misconduct, an independent monitor has detailed in a report, saying the union has "slow-rolled" access to documents for the probe.
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June 11, 2024
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired as a partner for its employment law practice an attorney with prior private practice experience who has also worked for multiple companies and a labor union during her more than 20-year career.
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June 11, 2024
An arbitrator reasonably found that a Missouri ready-mix concrete supplier violated its contract with a Teamsters local when it began releasing drivers from duty for the day without respect for their level of seniority, the union argued, encouraging a Missouri federal judge to preserve the arbitration award.
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June 10, 2024
A UPS subsidiary is fighting a National Labor Relations Board decision over a Teamsters local's certification at the Ninth Circuit, alleging that the union's misconduct amid a representation election unfairly influenced the vote.
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June 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that a pension provider for workers in graphic communications has paid back more than $8 million in excess funds it received through a financial assistance program administered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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June 10, 2024
A recent Second Circuit order reviving the National Labor Relations Board's bid to block Starbucks from committing alleged labor law violations in New York boosted employers' power to seek discovery in labor injunction cases, even as it knocked a district judge for letting Starbucks pry into a union campaign.
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June 10, 2024
A group of union-represented Southern California hospitality workers who say they're getting charged much higher health insurance rates than their counterparts in Las Vegas are seeking class certification in their lawsuit challenging the rates, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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June 10, 2024
Regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board "were not consistently complying" with procedures for mail-ballot elections, an agency watchdog report found, highlighting lapses in documenting details of elections conducted by mail and a lack of internal controls tailored to mail ballots.