Fired Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board members are overstating the reach of U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowing limits on the president's power to remove independent agency leaders, the Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Friday as it seeks to reverse decisions reinstating the members.
Continued uncertainty over whether the National Labor Relations Board has a quorum amid a legal challenge to member Gwynne Wilcox's firing could make unions consider taking more direct actions instead of turning to the board, attorneys for unions and employers said.
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused an en banc D.C. Circuit's order reinstating two fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board on Wednesday, in a dispute that challenges a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting certain government officials from presidential removal.
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Fired Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board members are overstating the reach of U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowing limits on the president's power to remove independent agency leaders, the Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Friday as it seeks to reverse decisions reinstating the members.
Continued uncertainty over whether the National Labor Relations Board has a quorum amid a legal challenge to member Gwynne Wilcox's firing could make unions consider taking more direct actions instead of turning to the board, attorneys for unions and employers said.
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused an en banc D.C. Circuit's order reinstating two fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board on Wednesday, in a dispute that challenges a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting certain government officials from presidential removal.
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April 11, 2025
A Pennsylvania transit workers union can keep its win against a regional public transit operator over the firing of a bus driver accused of harassment, a state appellate court concluded Friday, finding that an arbitration award that changed the firing to a suspension drew its essence from the collective bargaining agreement.
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April 11, 2025
A New York City television station operated by Nexstar violated federal labor law by refusing to give requested financial information to the NewsGuild of New York, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday, concluding the union had a right to seek these details amid contract talks.
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April 11, 2025
The Federal Labor Relations Authority upheld an arbitrator's conclusions that the National Labor Relations Board's collective bargaining agreement with a union shuts out a grievance about a probationary attorney's performance review, tossing the union's challenge to the award.
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April 11, 2025
A cannabis retailer challenging the constitutionality of a California law that requires marijuana businesses to have labor peace agreements is bringing its legal battle to the Ninth Circuit.
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April 11, 2025
Affiliates of a bankrupt dairy business are urging the Third Circuit to hold a full court rehearing on its split panel decision that a Teamsters union pension fund can sue them to enforce a $39 million settlement, arguing the law "simply does not say" what the majority ruled it says.
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April 11, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on a motion to send a worker's individual WARN Act claims against Tesla to arbitration and stay or dismiss nonindividual claims the worker is bringing. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the Golden State.
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April 11, 2025
A plumbing company in Utah threatened to fire employees for talking about compensation and terminated a worker in violation of federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the owner of the business can't bar employees from discussing pay with one another.
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April 11, 2025
A Detroit trucking company's union contract required it to provide its workers with health insurance, but the company didn't take the necessary steps to ensure that employees signed up, a Teamsters local told a Michigan federal judge, seeking to compel the company to provide the benefit.
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April 10, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration is acting against Congress' will by making significant cuts to the agency that serves as "the lifeblood of the American library system," the American Library Association and a federal workers' union argued in Washington, D.C., federal court Thursday, asking the court to reverse the cuts.
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April 10, 2025
The D.C. Circuit rejected on Thursday a request by Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc.'s for the appeals court to rethink its enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board bargaining order against the company and toss of challenges to a union representation election.
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April 10, 2025
The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court's toss of constitutional claims about pulling permission for union dues deductions from current and former employees of the state of Oregon, finding Thursday that the workers haven't shown concrete harm linked to some of their First Amendment allegations.
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April 10, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense violated a Biden-era executive order by saying it won't use project labor agreements on large-scale construction projects, two labor organizations told a Washington, D.C., federal judge, saying the executive order is still valid despite a successful challenge to it before the Court of Federal Claims.
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April 10, 2025
The D.C. Circuit's leanings were tough to glean Thursday as judges raised few questions about a National Labor Relations Board ruling that George Washington University Hospital's aggressive bargaining proposals showed it approached negotiations with a longtime union in bad faith.
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April 10, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor, under the leadership of the acting general counsel, sought to withdraw some unfair labor practice claims against an auto parts maker and asked to drop a bid to make the employer bargain with a United Auto Workers affiliate.
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April 09, 2025
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
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April 09, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday will consider enforcing a National Labor Relations Board ruling that George Washington University Hospital sabotaged union negotiations by sticking to aggressive proposals, weighing when the content of an employer's bargaining positions can cross the line into bad faith.
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April 09, 2025
Google challenged National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' summary judgment bid alleging the company illegally refused to bargain with the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America, arguing the company does not jointly employ unionized content creation workers at Accenture.
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April 09, 2025
The Teamsters and the National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit to reject Amazon's bid for an injunction blocking an agency prosecution, with the board arguing it is not in the public interest to lock workers out of the only federal labor law enforcement venue over alleged constitutional defects.
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April 09, 2025
Apple will revise some parts of its confidentiality agreement and other worker policies as part of an unfair labor practice settlement at the National Labor Relations Board, according to the deal, which requires the tech giant to put up a post indefinitely on a public-facing website.
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April 09, 2025
An SEIU affiliate asked the Third Circuit to uphold a lower court's denial of a preliminary injunction bid challenging the constitutionality of NLRB proceedings against a New Jersey nursing home, saying the facility's claims about showing harm could lead to making the "nation's labor laws unenforceable."
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April 09, 2025
Greenspoon Marder LLP has hired a labor and employment duo from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, which they had joined in December after leaving a firm that one of them helped launch in 2022, the firm has announced.
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April 08, 2025
Six unions asked a California federal court to block the Trump administration from imposing an executive order that would ax collective bargaining agreements at federal agencies that have "national security" aims, arguing the unions are likely to win on their claims that the government is committing constitutional violations.
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April 08, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has offered his views on how state, federal and bankruptcy laws impact billions of dollars in disputed claims as defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. looks to confirm a Chapter 11 plan and a settlement with pension funds.
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April 08, 2025
Starbucks urged a Missouri federal judge to toss a suit from the state's attorney general claiming the company employs diversity quotas that discriminate against white and male applicants, arguing the state hasn't presented any evidence that its diversity, equity and inclusion policies have negatively affected Missourians.
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April 08, 2025
A congressional hearing Tuesday on the future of college sports under labor law mostly retread the same debates over athletes unionizing, though one Republican lawmaker's call to "get the [National Collegiate Athletic Association] out" drew attention from the other side of the aisle.