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May 07, 2024
A Michigan federal judge should wait on deciding whether to issue an injunction against Starbucks in a wrongful firing case out of Ann Arbor, the company argued, saying the U.S. Supreme Court must first decide a case concerning how injunctions are dispensed to National Labor Relations Board prosecutors.
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May 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board is fighting a Texas federal judge's decision striking down the board's 2023 joint employer rule, telling the court on Tuesday that the agency will appeal the ruling to the Fifth Circuit.
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May 07, 2024
A Washington state judge won't toss a shareholder suit accusing Starbucks' corporate leadership of diminishing stock values by allowing store managers to quash baristas' organizing efforts.
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May 07, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has added a labor and employment partner from Michigan firm Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone PLC to its Detroit office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't overturn the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a hotel to rehire 100 union-represented workers, a UNITE HERE affiliate argued, because there isn't disagreement between circuit courts over the evidence required to show anti-union animus.
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May 07, 2024
Dump truck drivers for a Seattle-area construction company did not violate the no-strike provisions of a set of labor contracts by supporting a strike on a different company, the drivers' union told a Washington federal court, seeking dismissal of the breach-of-contract claim in the company's lawsuit against the union.
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May 07, 2024
Unions help women earn higher wages and narrow gender pay gaps, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the National Women’s Law Center. Here, Law360 speaks with the law center’s senior counsel Adrienne DerVartanian about the protections unions afford women and others.
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May 06, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday upheld a judge's ruling that Apple violated federal labor law when a manager asked a worker about his views on a union drive and his discussions with co-workers.
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May 06, 2024
The Amazon Labor Union and members of a reform caucus fought against Amazon's challenge in New York federal court to requests for workers' contact information ahead of an officers vote, with the union saying the e-commerce conglomerate isn't facing a burden.
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May 06, 2024
Justices on Massachusetts' highest court appeared unlikely Monday to strike down ballot proposals to reinvent app-based drivers' relationships with Uber, Lyft and the like, commenting that the scattershot ideas for voters in March all carry the underlying theme of creating a carveout from the state's worker-friendly employee classification law.
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May 06, 2024
An Illinois federal judge should compel a Midwestern bakery workers union to rerun a 2023 officer election because it didn't properly update its members' addresses before sending out ballots, the U.S. Department of Labor has claimed in a new lawsuit against the union.
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May 06, 2024
A Starbucks worker in Michigan can't proceed with a bid to oust the Workers United union, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, finding that pending refusal-to-bargain claims block the petition from moving ahead for now.
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May 06, 2024
A Nebraska electrical contractor improperly withheld wage information from an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, with one member writing that he would be open to a remedy requiring that employers let NLRB agents train workers on their labor rights.
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May 06, 2024
The College Football Players Association will meet this week with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to craft legislation that gives athletes certain worker protections and collective bargaining rights but stops short of classifying them as full employees, the organization said Monday.
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May 06, 2024
Fisher Phillips LLP is building out its New Jersey presence with the addition of a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP labor and employment partner coming aboard as of counsel.
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May 03, 2024
Two cruise ship contractors and a union pension fund told a Louisiana federal judge Friday that they're winding down their dispute over the contractors' $2.8 million debt to the fund, asking him to toss the case but let them reopen it if they can't settle the last outstanding issue.
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May 03, 2024
A handful of recent decisions out of the National Labor Relations Board offer employers a reminder that they may risk labor lawsuits if they probe workers' conversations with colleagues or unions to bolster their cases in wage suits, challenges to union elections and other litigation.
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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, a federal magistrate judge will consider whether to grant class certification to New York income tax preparers who claim they were denied overtime pay due to their employer's practice of paying them on commissions. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 03, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit a former flight attendant lodged against Spirit Airlines accusing it of firing her after she complained that its medical leave policies ran afoul of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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May 03, 2024
President Joe Biden vetoed a congressional resolution to block an enjoined National Labor Relations Board rule treating more employers as joint employers Friday, following through on an earlier threat to shoot down the measure.
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May 03, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge said a home remodeler's social media policy violated federal labor law under the board's revised standards, but nonetheless tossed a worker's challenge to the policy because it's unfair to apply the new standard retroactively.
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May 03, 2024
A New York City waiter's participation in a staff walkout partially motivated his managers' decision to fire him about three months later, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, deeming the firing illegal and ordering the restaurant to rehire him with back pay.
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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments before the California Supreme Court on the issue of the right of workers bringing a case under the state's Private Attorneys General Act to intervene in a separate matter. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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May 03, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board has upheld an agency judge's decision to greenlight a redo of a union representation election at a New Jersey waste management company, finding the company tainted the first election by creating the impression that the union's presence was interfering with an upcoming raise.
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May 02, 2024
Two orchestra musicians represented by an American Federation of Musicians local accused their union in New York federal court of breaching its duty of fair representation by not enforcing an arbitration award after the duo was suspended based on allegations from years ago.