A Washington, D.C., federal judge declined Friday to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive U.S. Department of Labor data, saying that while he "harbors concerns" about privacy risks, the suing labor unions haven't established standing.
Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to her firing last week has teed up an anticipated test of foundational precedent for modern federal regulation that may extend far past the labor board and the ground rules it sets for worker organizing.
A Fifth Circuit panel gave little indication of its leanings during arguments Wednesday in a key challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board, as an agency attorney urged the appeals court to find SpaceX and other companies had not shown the harm necessary to block agency proceedings against them.
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A Washington, D.C., federal judge declined Friday to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive U.S. Department of Labor data, saying that while he "harbors concerns" about privacy risks, the suing labor unions haven't established standing.
Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to her firing last week has teed up an anticipated test of foundational precedent for modern federal regulation that may extend far past the labor board and the ground rules it sets for worker organizing.
A Fifth Circuit panel gave little indication of its leanings during arguments Wednesday in a key challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board, as an agency attorney urged the appeals court to find SpaceX and other companies had not shown the harm necessary to block agency proceedings against them.
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February 07, 2025
The Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers sued the union representing Colorado workers on Friday in federal court, alleging strikes at King Soopers stores in the state are a pressure tactic to "force multi-union bargaining" on the company and other employers.
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February 07, 2025
The caretakers of a Teamsters pension plan dodged a mismanagement lawsuit Friday, with a New York federal judge dismissing the plan participants' claims that the plan's trustees and advisers greenlighted risky investment decisions and hefty plan management fees.
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February 07, 2025
An Ohio airport authority called on a federal judge to nix a union's amended complaint fighting a policy it says places restrictions on picketing and displaying inflatables like Scabby the Rat, arguing the union lacks standing because its claims are based on hypothetical events.
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February 07, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding journalists' attempt to seek federal contractor pay data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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February 07, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Friday issued a "limited" temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Agency for International Development from putting 2,200 employees on paid administrative leave and ordering the agency to reinstate 500 employees already on leave.
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February 07, 2025
The new chairman of the U.S. House panel responsible for oversight of the U.S. Department of Labor said he was confident in President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary and that he doesn't mind the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency looking into the agency. U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg spoke with Law360 about his plans as chairman.
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February 07, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official certified an International Association of Machinists affiliate to represent pharmacists at a CVS store in Rhode Island, rebuffing the company's objection that their vote on the union was impacted by the actions of a worker whom the employer considered a supervisor.
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February 07, 2025
A California federal judge scrapped Stellantis' suit over a Southern California-based United Auto Workers local's strike threat, saying that since the strike is entirely hypothetical at this stage, no judicial intervention is necessary.
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February 07, 2025
A federal judge cut out a brief that the National Labor Relations Board had filed in support of its proposed findings of fact in a long-running dispute with the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but the agency said it was only following the judge's published practices and procedures when it filed.
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February 07, 2025
This week the Second Circuit is scheduled consider a former New York City Economic Development Corp. employee's attempt to revive her lawsuit claiming her supervisor retaliated against her for taking maternity and medical leave. Here, Law360 looks at this and other notable cases on the docket this week in New York courts.
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February 06, 2025
Over a dozen state attorneys general are set to file suit challenging Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency staffers' access to people's sensitive personal information through government payment systems, New York Attorney General Letitia James' office announced Thursday.
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February 06, 2025
The Trump administration's illegal decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development has caused a global humanitarian crisis, cost thousands of Americans their jobs and threatens U.S. national security, groups representing federal employees and foreign service workers alleged in a federal lawsuit Thursday in Washington, D.C.
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February 06, 2025
An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local violated federal labor law by not accepting a Disney World employee's request to resign his union membership and stop dues deductions, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded Thursday, discarding the union's claim that the worker wasn't a union member.
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February 06, 2025
A former Teamsters business agent fell short of proving her exclusion from a slate of candidates in an officers' election constituted age discrimination, retaliation and wrongful discharge, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, tossing the complaint but giving the former business agent an opportunity to refile it.
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February 06, 2025
A former financial secretary for the United Steelworkers in Freedom, Pennsylvania, has changed his plea to guilty in an embezzlement case brought against him, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti of the Western District of Pennsylvania announced Thursday.
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February 06, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday approved a consent order blocking Elon Musk and additional Department of Government Efficiency employees from accessing the federal government's payment systems, although a "special government employee" will have limited access as the Treasury Department and suing plaintiffs spar over a preliminary injunction.
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February 06, 2025
Amazon cannot block a National Labor Relations Board hearing at which it will face allegations of snubbing its delivery drivers' union, a California federal judge has ruled, holding that the e-commerce giant cannot skirt the broad ban on labor-dispute injunctions imposed by the Norris-LaGuardia Act.
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February 06, 2025
Benefit funds for an Operating Engineers local asked a Michigan federal court to adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation of sanctions against a crane rental company in the parties' contributions spat, accusing the business of being "blatantly disingenuous" in its objections to her findings.
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February 06, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official should have unearthed more specifics about an alleged International Association of Machinists merger affecting UPS mechanics before ruling the workers couldn't instead join the Teamsters, a Teamsters local argued, asking the NLRB to vacate the decision and order a fact-finding hearing.
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February 06, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday put on hold the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" program for federal employees, delaying the deadline for workers to accept the offer until Monday while the court weighs the legality of the move.
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February 05, 2025
A Washington federal judge has granted the U.S. Department of Labor a partial win in a farmworker union's challenge to federal policies that have allegedly depressed farmworker wages, concluding that some claims challenge DOL actions that aren't final agency actions.
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February 05, 2025
The AFL-CIO, the Economic Policy Institute and four unions sued the U.S. Department of Labor and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Wednesday, seeking a temporary restraining order to stop DOL leadership from complying with any attempt by DOGE to access DOL data.
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February 05, 2025
A security services company violated federal labor law by threatening to slash compensation and later discharging a guard who was involved in a discussion about wages, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, knocking down the business's claim that the worker resigned.
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February 05, 2025
A Laborers union local on Wednesday called on the National Labor Relations Board to pause a suit accusing the union of mishandling job referrals and the board's chairman to sit the case out following member Gwynne Wilcox's firing.
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February 05, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official greenlighted on Wednesday a mail ballot representation vote between two unions for security officers with a federal contractor in South Carolina, finding an agreement between the incumbent union and employer does not prevent an election.