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August 02, 2024
In a legally rare decision, a Connecticut state judge vacated an arbitration panel's determination that forced a city to reinstate a fired police lieutenant, ruling the arbiters were wrong to ignore an earlier court order banning the lieutenant from coming within 100 yards of the city's police chief.
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August 02, 2024
Two movie production companies for Hallmark films sought reversal of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found them in violation of federal labor law over unlawful terminations of strikers and interrogation, contending that the board awarded compensatory damages in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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August 02, 2024
Two recent decisions by Texas federal judges to block National Labor Relations Board suits on constitutional grounds will hamper the agency's power to prosecute certain cases in the short term, and could gut the agency in the long term if these once-fringe theories gain traction.
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August 02, 2024
A Detroit-area Coca-Cola distributor violated its contract with a Teamsters local by altering the health insurance available to retirees — removing a cap on prescription costs, requiring retirees to pay monthly premiums, limiting certain coverage and changing deductibles, the union alleged in a lawsuit in Michigan federal court.
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August 02, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge declined to grant a construction materials company a win on a truck driver's proposed wage and hour class action, saying to the extent the allegations were based on his work as a mobile sweeper driver, they were not superseded by a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 02, 2024
A Walgreens employee's request to have an election to decertify a United Food and Commercial Workers affiliate can't go forward, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, explaining that the union disclaimed interest in representing a bargaining unit at stores in New York.
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August 02, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a New York City preschool's motion to trim an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former administrator who claims she was falsely promised a promotion and faced discrimination after an accident.
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August 02, 2024
U.S. law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Munich, its second in Germany, in a move to expand its legal services in Europe.
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August 02, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for arguments regarding dueling partial summary judgment bids in a class action alleging Charter Communications failed to pay out unused vacation time when it merged with Time Warner Cable. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 01, 2024
Former Philadelphia union leader and convicted felon John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty will have to pay 90% of the attorney fees that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 incurred while participating in the government's public corruption and embezzlement cases against him, a federal judge said Thursday.
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August 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has urged a Washington federal court to toss a farmworker union's challenge to policies governing the prevailing wage, saying the union's issues actually stem from how state officials interpreted federal rules governing the wage rate.
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August 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court must resolve a circuit split over how to calculate the bills sent to companies that leave union pension plans, a group of employers has argued, fighting an argument by the trustees of an International Association of Machinists pension fund that the split is "tolerable."
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August 01, 2024
Federal labor law doesn't preempt some claims from unionized hospital workers in Pennsylvania over incorrect overtime pay, a federal judge determined, saying interpretation of a labor contract laying out the calculation of wage rates and pension contributions isn't necessary to resolve those allegations.
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August 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged an agency judge to find that players on the University of Southern California's football and basketball teams are employees under federal labor law, arguing their status as students doesn't mean they aren't workers.
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August 01, 2024
The compact that created the bistate Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission gave the commission the authority to require contractors to use project labor agreements in a publicly bid construction project, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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August 01, 2024
An International Association of Machinists local and a Mercedes-Benz dealership told a California federal judge Wednesday that they've reached a deal to end claims that union-represented workers violated federal labor law by blocking a delivery truck from exiting a dealership during a strike.
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August 01, 2024
The head of the National Labor Relations Board's Brooklyn office has declined to pursue a case accusing Amazon of firing a worker for reporting their supervisor to the company's ethics hotline, saying Amazon presented evidence that it fired the worker for "threatening behavior."
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August 01, 2024
A Senate committee on Thursday voted to advance the nomination of National Labor Relations Board Chairman Lauren McFerran and a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner nominated to fill a Republican vacancy on the board, setting up a high-stakes floor fight over key spots at the agency.
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August 01, 2024
A California tribe's bid to nix an arbitration award over an authorization card check process with UNITE HERE can't proceed for now, a federal judge ruled, saying the tribe's counsel didn't discuss the motion with the union's attorney before submitting it.
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July 31, 2024
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Wednesday delivered a win for striking unions picketing outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's warehouse, upholding a county court's decision that the newspaper's claims that the unions disrupted deliveries were out of its jurisdiction.
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July 31, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering furloughing all agency staff for one day in late August to stay under its operational budget, the commission and a union representing its employees confirmed Wednesday.
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July 31, 2024
A decision from the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board to debar a painting contractor in Minnesota is sustained, a federal judge ruled, saying the company didn't show how the agency abused its discretion with its order over allegedly unpaid prevailing wages.
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July 31, 2024
Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division are in the early stages of organizing a union, the union they're seeking to join confirmed Wednesday.
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July 31, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has moved to unwind a 2020 regulation that curtailed the practice of pausing elections over alleged misconduct and limited an insulation period for voluntarily recognized unions, but experts expect a swift challenge given recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent limiting court deference to federal agencies.
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July 31, 2024
A slate of reform candidates for the Amazon Labor Union won all positions on the ballot in an officers election, the union's new president told Law360 on Wednesday, with the results signifying a "different direction" for the union as it aims to win a first contract at the e-commerce giant.