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July 23, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups urged the D.C. Circuit to reject a National Labor Relations Board decision requiring Google and a contractor to bargain with YouTube Music workers, saying the agency relied on an "amorphous conception" of joint employer law in reaching the decision.
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July 23, 2024
An AFL-CIO affiliated union can't stop a utility company from requesting therapy notes from three workers who are trying to return to work from short-term disability, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying that there is a lack of irreparable injury.
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July 23, 2024
A Texas federal judge explained Tuesday why he blocked a case against SpaceX from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board, saying he thinks the company is likely to win its constitutional challenge to the agency's structure.
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July 23, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of Democratic senators Tuesday in introducing a bill to codify the now-defunct doctrine of Chevron deference after it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.
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July 23, 2024
A heating and air conditioning installation company in Georgia violated federal labor law by refusing to hire workers who were union organizers, a National Labor Relations Board judge found, saying the company's owner made comments showing anti-union bias.
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July 23, 2024
Ryan Stewart of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped car rental giant Enterprise dodge $160 million in claims that it illegally collected biometric data from workers when it used their fingerprints to register their arrival at work, on top of other victories he secured for Amazon and sales company Credico, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 22, 2024
A union pension fund that claims it lost $30 million due to bad investment advice it received in the mid-2010s missed its chance to challenge that advice, an investment advisory firm argued in California federal court, saying the fund blew past its deadline to sue and didn't qualify for an extension.
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July 22, 2024
A group of plumbing technicians can vote on union representation, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, saying the election will move forward despite a company's claim that "supervisory taint" affected employees' unionization bid.
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July 22, 2024
A California federal judge has tossed a group of SAG-AFTRA members' claims that the union betrayed them by allowing studios to impose vaccine mandates after the pandemic, saying the workers' state-level claims are preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act and a federal-level claim is untimely.
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July 22, 2024
The labor movement praised President Joe Biden's record in the wake of his announcement Sunday that he will not seek reelection, and began to shift support toward Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.
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July 22, 2024
A provision dealing with subcontracting work in a contract between seven California United Food and Commercial Workers locals and a Kroger subsidiary violates federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Board determined, with two board members signaling an interest in reviewing the board's analysis for such clauses.
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July 22, 2024
Tanvir Rahman of Filippatos PLLC secured a $12 million settlement for a former Fox News producer who said she was used as a scapegoat during the network's legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
Tech giant Meta violated federal labor law by offering laid-off employees separation agreements with "overly broad language" barring them from discussing employment terms or conditions, a National Labor Relations Board judge found on Friday.
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July 19, 2024
A group of security guards at four upstate New York pharmaceutical facilities can vote on union representation, a National Labor Relations Board official said Friday, rejecting their employer's argument that some are union-ineligible supervisors and greenlighting an election for next month.
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July 19, 2024
The practice of labor law is defined by its ideological divide, and few attorneys who start on one side of the labor-management split ever move to the other. Those who have say the move can invite scorn from their former side even as it provides professional satisfaction and a unique perspective on the practice.
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July 19, 2024
A Minnesota restaurant violated the National Labor Relations Act when it put a former server and bartender on probation and then fired her for complaining about her shifts and wages being cut, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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July 19, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board dropped its appeal of a Texas federal judge's decision vacating its rule expanding its definition of joint employer under federal labor law, saying it wants to consider its approach to the policy in light of the court's decision.
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July 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5 million deal to end a class action against a nurse staffing agency. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 19, 2024
The D.C. Circuit should uphold the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that property management company JLL illegally snubbed the union voted in by a group of California maintenance technicians, board attorneys said, urging the court to reject JLL's argument that the election was tainted.
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July 19, 2024
The AFL-CIO backed the National Labor Relations Board's effort to keep a ruling that Home Depot unlawfully forced a worker to remove a Black Lives Matter message from their apron, telling the Eighth Circuit the decision doesn't affect the chain's freedom of speech.
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July 19, 2024
Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
A status conference is scheduled this week in the National Labor Relations Board's recently revived suit seeking an injunction barring Starbucks from violating federal labor law at stores across the country.
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July 18, 2024
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien's speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention has sparked controversy within the union and broader labor movement as organized labor kicks into gear for a prominent role in the upcoming presidential election.
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July 18, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should block claims that SpaceX violated labor law from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board because the company has a good shot at winning its constitutional challenge to the agency's structure, SpaceX argued.
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July 18, 2024
The Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that a former CSX Transporation Inc. engineer waited too long to try to revive his wrongful termination suit stemming from his firing over an online post he made about a fatal train accident.