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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 07, 2024
The Labor Management Relations Act doesn't preempt a driver's suit accusing two cold storage companies of wage and breaks violations, a California federal judge ruled, sending the case back to state court.
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June 06, 2024
The National Football League isn't to blame for a former football player's head trauma, the league told a South Carolina federal judge, arguing federal labor law preempts a negligence claim from a representative of the ex-player's estate.
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June 06, 2024
The Major League Baseball Players Association told a Puerto Rico federal judge that the sports agency linked to music superstar Bad Bunny has grossly overstated the impact it had on the business, arguing it is the agency's actions, not the association's "unreasonable sanctions," that caused injury.
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June 06, 2024
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at Whole Foods is protected under federal labor law, a group of workers argued to the National Labor Relations Board, saying employees wore BLM masks and attire on the job to push the company to confront racial bias in the workplace.
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June 06, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has tossed a petition for a union representation election at a New Haven, Connecticut, nightclub, saying some of the workers the union sought to represent are security guards who cannot share a bargaining unit with nonguards.
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June 06, 2024
The Sixth Circuit upheld a Michigan construction company's defeat of a lawsuit seeking to compel an audit of company contributions to a union local's fringe benefit funds, saying the funds didn't have a valid contract with the company after a collective bargaining agreement expired.
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June 06, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by sending baristas home for wearing union T-shirts at a Brooklyn cafe, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company can't point to a dress code rule to excuse this behavior because it wasn't otherwise enforcing the rule in the region.
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June 05, 2024
An American Federation of Musicians local urged a New York federal court Wednesday to dismiss duty of fair representation claims from two orchestra musicians, arguing that the plaintiffs didn't raise allegations of "any plausible violation" of an arbitration award reinstating the duo.
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June 05, 2024
The Third Circuit revived claims Wednesday accusing Hudson County, New Jersey; its department of corrections; and three county employees of retaliating against a corrections officer because of his union activity, saying a federal judge tossed the allegations too soon.
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June 05, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has tossed a Fiat Chrysler employee's sexual harassment and retaliation claims against the company over the alleged actions of her union steward, saying the worker hadn't responded to a court order.
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June 05, 2024
Boston federal prosecutors said Wednesday they are helping a union recover about $5.3 million stolen through a complex business email compromise scheme.
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June 05, 2024
A group of machinist craft employees at a Seattle ship repair facility can't break away from their union and affiliate with a Carpenters local, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, saying the multi-craft bargaining unit that has represented the facility's employees since the 1970s should remain in place.
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June 05, 2024
The United Auto Workers accused Mercedes-Benz of committing federal labor law violations, including unlawfully drug testing union supporters, at an Alabama plant where the union recently lost a representation election, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Wednesday.
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June 05, 2024
A coming joint memorandum from the nation's federal discrimination and labor law watchdogs addressing when workplace speech qualifies as unlawful harassment should be opened to public comment before being published, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee said.
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June 04, 2024
A New York hospital violated federal labor law when it withheld information that its nurses' union requested about recruitment bonuses, but not when it offered those bonuses to a few new hires without discussing it with the union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Tuesday.
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June 04, 2024
The trade group representing the largest U.S. airlines alleged in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that Chicago's new paid sick leave law cannot be enforced against airlines because it interferes with flight crew staffing and scheduling in violation of federal law and collective bargaining agreements.
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June 04, 2024
The Amazon Labor Union, an independent union representing workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, has taken steps to affiliate with the Teamsters ahead of an election to seat new officers.
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June 04, 2024
The University of California system is planning to sue its graduate student workers' union over a Gaza-related strike that has spread to five campuses, saying state court is the next step now that a state labor-management relations agency has declined to halt the work stoppage.
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June 04, 2024
A coal company executive's widow can't demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees over a dismissed suit seeking $6.5 billion, United Mine Workers of America pension plan trustees argued, knocking her claim that the trustees are seeking funds from an "elderly woman."
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June 04, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Fresno, California, absorbing a location previously operated by Raimondo Miller ALC and its five attorneys, the firm has announced.
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June 04, 2024
A discharged employee of a Texas security guard firm missed the deadline to sue his union for failing to fight hard enough for his reinstatement, an Arizona federal judge ruled, tossing the suit but giving him another shot to prove he sued on time.
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June 03, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed torn over whether it should "split hairs" between religious conduct and religious belief as it weighed whether to uphold a Southwest flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit over graphic anti-abortion messages she sent her union president.
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June 03, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official cleared all full-time and regular part-time employees of an Olympia, Washington, mushroom producer's three facilities to vote on representation by a Laborers local, rejecting the company's challenge to the unit size Monday.
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June 03, 2024
The Fifth Circuit's rebuke of the National Labor Relations Board in an appeal involving software company Thryv Inc. will not affect the board's use of the new remedies it announced in the case, experts said, though it could signal trouble if a future challenge to the remedies comes to the appeals court.