The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of two labor cases does not spell an end for employers' arguments disputing how much deference courts owe the National Labor Relations Board, challenges that are increasingly common since the justices' Loper Bright decision last term abandoning Chevron deference.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has significantly reduced its operations in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump directing certain agencies to cut down on their duties and staff, a move that experts and advocates said could make securing mediators in labor disputes harder.
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of two labor cases does not spell an end for employers' arguments disputing how much deference courts owe the National Labor Relations Board, challenges that are increasingly common since the justices' Loper Bright decision last term abandoning Chevron deference.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has significantly reduced its operations in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump directing certain agencies to cut down on their duties and staff, a move that experts and advocates said could make securing mediators in labor disputes harder.
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
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March 28, 2025
An electric company can't use the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to claw back contributions to a union healthcare plan that weren't put toward benefits, a New York federal judge said Friday, tossing the company's suit against the plan's administrator.
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March 28, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense and other agencies asked a Texas federal judge to bless President Donald Trump's move to end collective bargaining with their workers, saying in a new suit that their union deals are hampering national security by inhibiting the president's federal workforce shakeup.
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March 28, 2025
The city of Chicago dodged a former firefighter's lawsuit claiming he was fired for not complying with the city's COVID-19 vaccination policy after being given a religious exemption, with an Illinois federal judge ruling Friday he failed to show he was also exempt from the policy's testing requirement.
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March 28, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an attempt from the former city planner for Newburgh, New York, to revive her lawsuit claiming she was fired for advocating that the city adopt antiracism policies for the city's housing initiatives.
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March 28, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from stopping work and pursuing mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying she had to take action to spare the agency from potential illegal "destruction."
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March 28, 2025
A split D.C. Circuit panel on Friday paused district court orders restoring fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board to work, once again removing them from their posts while the president's challenges play out.
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March 28, 2025
A Minnesota plumbing company illegally turned away an applicant because of his union ties, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, saying the snub placed the company on the hook for a National Labor Relations Act violation.
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March 28, 2025
Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC has promoted Michael L. Abitabilo from office litigation manager to office managing principal in White Plains, New York, the firm has announced.
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March 28, 2025
Starbucks unlawfully suspended union supporters at a South Carolina cafe and temporarily closed the store, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the workers' actions, such as demanding raises from a manager, did not lose protection under federal labor law.
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March 28, 2025
The United Auto Workers escaped a former Howmet Aerospace Inc. employee's lawsuit claiming the union failed to adequately challenge his termination because he's Black, with an Ohio federal judge saying he'd failed to identify a non-Black colleague who received the representation he felt he was owed.
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March 28, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a proposed class action that revolves around a transportation company's alleged piece-rate pay policy. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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March 28, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's move to gut the agency that controls international news outlet Voice of America, saying it appeared to be a "classic case" of arbitrary policymaking.
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March 27, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing workers at a number of agencies "with national security missions," saying that allowing the workers to bargain is "dangerous" in agencies with such responsibilities.
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March 27, 2025
The White House laid out reasoning Thursday for asking the D.C. Circuit to bless President Donald Trump's firing of two Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board members, saying their reinstatement by lower courts interfered with executive authority and saddled Trump with officials "who lack his trust."
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March 27, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge has approved a $225,000 settlement in a case accusing a nonprofit immigration legal services agency of illegally discharging an attorney, bringing an end to a year-old challenge to the lawyer's December 2023 firing.
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March 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board tossed on Thursday an allegation that Starbucks violated federal labor law by not negotiating with Workers United over the discipline of a worker, declining to shift precedent on an employer's bargaining obligation with a union that hasn't notched a first contract.
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March 27, 2025
The Fifth Circuit must not enforce a National Labor Relations Board decision dinging Starbucks for unlawful subpoenas that sought employees' recordings of management and communications with Workers United, the coffee giant argued, challenging the board's application of 30-year-old precedent about discovery.
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March 27, 2025
A Teamsters pension fund can go after a bankrupt dairy business's affiliates for the $39 million that the business owes the fund under the terms of a settlement, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, saying the fund has a viable cause of action under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act.
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March 27, 2025
A fan-maker is seeking for the second time to halt an upcoming unfair labor practice proceeding, telling a Missouri federal judge that the administrative case should be put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court has considered whether NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox's firing was illegal.
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March 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Fifth Circuit not to grant a union's bid to throw out suits SpaceX and two other companies launched challenging the board's constitutionality, saying the dispute remains live even if the Trump administration's views change an aspect of the litigation.
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March 27, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.
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March 26, 2025
A New Mexico federal court on Wednesday sustained some claims from a former vice president for an International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees affiliate who said he was wrongly disciplined after raising concerns about another officer's name appearing on porn websites, while dismissing other allegations under federal racketeering and state laws.
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March 26, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union doomed its lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Postal Service to comply with an arbitration award by also trying to force compliance through the arbitration mechanism in their collective bargaining agreement, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled, saying he now lacks jurisdiction.
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March 26, 2025
As the U.S. Department of Labor leadership takes shape under President Donald Trump and proceeds on wage and hour and other policy priorities, former officials say the new top brass should listen to career staffers and keep enforcement actions fair. Here is what the former officials told Law360.
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March 26, 2025
Former federal workers asked an employment board Wednesday to reinstate them to jobs they lost because of President Donald Trump's executive orders shuttering all government diversity, equity and inclusion positions, stating the firings illegally targeted their assumed political beliefs and fell disproportionately hard on workers who weren't white men.