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May 08, 2024
Apple violated federal labor law by denying a Communications Workers of America supporter's requests for leave at a New Jersey store, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Wednesday, ahead of a union representation election set to begin at the end of this week.
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May 08, 2024
A Starbucks manager unlawfully threatened a worker while discussing a Workers United organizing campaign at a Wisconsin cafe, a divided National Labor Relations Board determined, with the board's lone Republican finding what the manager said didn't rise to the level of a threat or interrogation.
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May 08, 2024
A farmworkers union in Washington state is challenging rules the U.S. Department of Labor introduced in 2022 that the union said are depressing farmworkers' wages.
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May 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board found an agency judge wrongly denied Amazon's request for an in-person hearing over an unfair labor practice complaint alleging the company illegally disciplined a worker, saying there weren't "compelling circumstances" to warrant a remote proceeding.
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May 07, 2024
Almost three-quarters of U.S. employers share great concern over the impact the U.S. Department of Labor's and the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement actions will have on their businesses, according to a survey Littler Mendelson PC released Wednesday.
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May 07, 2024
The D.C. Circuit rejected on Tuesday a Puerto Rico hospital's request for an en banc rehearing over the appeals court's decision to affirm the National Labor Relations Board's conclusions that the hospital illegally withdrew a union's recognition after becoming a successor employer.
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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.