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May 24, 2024
A roofing manufacturer must arbitrate a United Steelworkers local's grievances over subcontracting notice requirements under the labor contract terms, a Texas federal magistrate judge ruled, tossing the company's argument that the parties' pact lacks the payment remedy that the union requested.
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May 24, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $2 million deal in a wage and hour class action by Del Monte Foods Inc. plant workers. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 23, 2024
Home Depot called on the Eighth Circuit to throw out a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the company illegally told a worker not to display a Black Lives Matter slogan on their apron, arguing that the board's stance violates the company's First Amendment rights.
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May 23, 2024
A company that fuels airplanes at John F. Kennedy International Airport sued its workers' union in New York federal court Thursday, seeking a temporary restraining order blocking the union from carrying out its stated intention to go on strike Friday.
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May 23, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board is "drowning" as a rise in cases and increased "litigiousness" of parties tax the agency's decimated workforce, Chairman Lauren McFerran said Thursday at New York University School of Law's annual labor conference.
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May 23, 2024
The United Auto Workers' loss in a union representation election at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz plants could slow the pace of the union's campaign to organize non-union automakers in the South and illustrates the challenges inherent to such a project, experts said.
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May 23, 2024
Two trustees of an embattled union life insurance fund have asked an Illinois federal judge to toss the U.S. Department of Labor's claims that they let a fellow trustee siphon about $2.6 million and amended the fund's rules to shield themselves from liability.
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May 23, 2024
A workers advocacy group in Missouri accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by using "intrusive algorithms" to watch employees' organizing activities, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Thursday, advancing a legal theory from the National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor.
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May 23, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he intends to renominate Lauren McFerran to continue serving as chair of the National Labor Relations Board, while also tapping a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner to fill a long-vacant Republican seat on the board.
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May 23, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a suit from two Christian flight attendants who said they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their labor union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, ruling there's no proof unlawful bias cost them their jobs.
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May 23, 2024
Workers at a dine-in movie theater near Denver can have an election to decide whether they want the Communications Workers of America to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, nixing the company's bid to expand the bargaining unit to other facilities.
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May 22, 2024
A four-justice concurrence to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme last week carries implications for other cases pending before the court that challenge the so-called administrative state, or the permanent cadre of regulatory agencies and career government enforcers who hold sway over vast swaths of American economic life.
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May 22, 2024
A union healthcare plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it stopped working with a Bay Area insulation company whose union contract expired, a new proposed class action filed in California federal court alleges.
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May 22, 2024
Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives labor subcommittee called their Republican counterparts out for maintaining a busy calendar of anti-union hearings Wednesday during the committee's fifth such inquest in this session of Congress.
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May 22, 2024
A Michigan federal judge can't enforce an arbitration award requiring the rehire of a fired worker, a steel manufacturer argued Wednesday, claiming the arbitration panel went beyond the parties' collective bargaining agreement in ordering reinstatement.
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May 22, 2024
Workers at three Philadelphia coffee shops can vote on representation by a Service Employees International Union affiliate, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, shooting down the employer's argument that workers at two of the stores have different working conditions from those at the third location.
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May 22, 2024
Northeastern University in Boston violated federal labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing campus police sergeants and detectives, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, potentially teeing up a challenge from the university to test the union's certification.
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May 21, 2024
In a 90-page opinion, the Second Circuit on Tuesday mostly upheld a Manhattan federal judge's decision affirming an arbiter's award favoring a nurses' pension plan, agreeing that White Oak Global Advisors LLC must return "Day 1" fees totaling nearly $2 million and pay prejudgment interest said to top $22 million.
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May 21, 2024
Starbucks did not violate federal labor law at a Michigan store by firing a union backer who cursed at his boss in front of customers, but crossed the line by canning another worker who used more measured language, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
A dozen business groups led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over the so-called walkaround rule in Texas federal court Tuesday, challenging the constitutionality of a two-month-old regulation that expanded workers' right to bring in outside representatives during job safety inspections.
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May 21, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board called for the dismissal of its enforcement bid against Starbucks in the Ninth Circuit over a decision finding the company illegally threatened workers in Hawaii, saying the coffee chain has expressed an intent to follow the board's decision.
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May 21, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has cleared 22 employees of a Sacramento, California, broadcast news company to vote on representation by a Communications Workers of America-affiliated union next week, rejecting the company's bid for a smaller voting pool.
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May 21, 2024
The 400 largest law firms by headcount in the U.S. grew more slowly in 2023 than in the previous two years, while Kirkland & Ellis LLP surpassed the 3,000-attorney threshold, according to the latest Law360 ranking.
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May 21, 2024
The legal market expanded more tentatively in 2023 than in previous years amid a slowdown in demand for legal services, especially in transactions, an area that has been sluggish but is expected to quicken in the near future.
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May 21, 2024
Norton Rose Fulbright has boosted its Washington, D.C., office with an ERISA litigator and experienced labor lawyer who most recently was with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.