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July 15, 2024
Workers United and former Starbucks employees must provide information requested in subpoenas about impacts to union support at a Long Island cafe following a worker's firing, a New York federal judge ruled, saying the company's probe is relevant to a National Labor Relations Board injunction case.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 12, 2024
In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, the landmark decision has emerged as a live issue in dozens of administrative challenges, with federal courts already pausing agency regulations expanding LGBTQ+ rights in education and healthcare and with a wave of parties seeking to use the new decision to win their cases.
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July 12, 2024
Apple should be held responsible for a federal labor law violation for interrogating, disciplining and firing a software engineer who sent mass emails about her workplace concerns, a National Labor Relations Board prosecutor told an agency judge after a hearing in a case against the technology giant.
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July 12, 2024
A divided D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding that a Brooklyn hotel's operator illegally refused to bargain with a union over economics until noneconomic issues were settled, finding the board's bargaining order was proper under federal labor law.
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July 12, 2024
A recent Fifth Circuit ruling vacating a National Labor Relations Board decision that restored protections for workers who mouth off during workplace actions doesn't undercut the board's policy but may complicate its enforcement, at least in the short term.
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July 12, 2024
An Ohio federal judge refused to throw out a Black truck driver's suit against the International United Auto Workers, saying he put forward enough information to support his allegation that the union did a poor job of representing him when his employer fired him for his social media posts.
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July 12, 2024
The first half of 2024 saw labor gaining ground in contract talks between Starbucks and Workers United and an organizing victory for the United Auto Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, but experts shared that the presidential election this year could affect unions' momentum.
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July 12, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge tossed two former union members' claims that their Laborers local maintained an unwritten, arbitrary rule at its Las Vegas hiring hall that it didn't tell members about, holding that the rule was sensible and members were informed of it.
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July 12, 2024
A New York City-based artist violated federal labor law by requiring workers to attend a so-called captive audience meeting and firing a union supporter, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors alleged, calling for the employer to issue an apology letter and read a notice of workers' rights.
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July 12, 2024
The first half of 2024 in Washington courts was punctuated by a fizzled startup's $72 million trial win against The Boeing Co., and Monsanto Co.'s appellate reversal of a $185 million verdict in one of a series of high-profile PCB poisoning cases. Here is a closer look at some of the biggest decisions in Washington state and federal courts in the first half of 2024.
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July 12, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial sign-off on a nearly $4 million settlement to resolve a proposed wage and hour class and collective action against language interpretation company Language Line Services Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 11, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board panel on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a Starbucks worker's bid to oust the union at a Portland, Oregon, cafe, drawing a dissent from the board's lone Republican appointee, who thought the decertification election should happen despite pending unfair labor practice claims.
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July 11, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday said it has been able to cut down lags in reviewing patent and trademark applications through increased hiring, better pay for patent examiners and improving technology.
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July 11, 2024
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. asked a Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge to reject a sale process proposed by some of the debtors in a Pittsburgh-area nursing home network's consolidated Chapter 11 case, saying it gave the debtors too much leeway to change what contracts they will maintain.
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July 11, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has greenlit over two dozen warehouse employees of an Oklahoma food distributor to vote on union representation by a Laborers local, rejecting the company's bid to expand the voting pool to include employees who work outside the warehouse.
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July 11, 2024
A United Food and Commercial Workers local can continue litigating its claim that Kaiser Permanente affiliates violated provisions in labor contracts guaranteeing adequate staffing, a Colorado federal judge ruled, saying there are outstanding issues to be resolved at trial.
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July 11, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday urged the Eighth Circuit to affirm a ruling that Home Depot illegally pushed out a worker who refused to remove the letters "BLM" from their apron, saying federal labor law protected the worker's protest because it echoed other discrimination complaints.
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July 11, 2024
Amateurism can't shield the NCAA from student-athletes' Fair Labor Standards Act claims, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, laying out a test to sort out whether athletes can be considered employees under the federal statute.
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July 11, 2024
The U.S. Senate confirmed an attorney with years of experience in the federal government and a federal employees union to a seat on the Federal Labor Relations Authority, returning the agency to a full slate of members after a yearlong vacancy.
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July 11, 2024
A group of Oregon home healthcare and hospice workers may vote on representation by a union that already represents their co-workers, provided that the so-called professional employees in the bargaining unit also vote yes on them joining, a National Labor Relations Board official has said.
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July 11, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday tapped an attorney who most recently served as of counsel at Cohen Weiss & Simon LLP to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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July 11, 2024
John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia, was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after being convicted of bribing a city councilman and stealing over $500,000 from the union.
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July 11, 2024
The Third Circuit upheld a lower court's nix of an arbitration award of more than $427,000 against a painting company over a union pension fund's withdrawal liability claims, determining Thursday that the fund waited too long to request payment under federal benefits law.
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July 11, 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled its latest initiative to bolster domestic automotive production by offering nearly $2 billion in grants to convert 11 auto manufacturing and assembly facilities that have been shuttered or are at risk of closing to build electric vehicles and related components.