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July 29, 2024
A Texas federal judge blocked the National Labor Relations Board on Monday from prosecuting claims that an energy company unlawfully transferred and fired a worker who complained about safety issues, saying the agency's in-house judges are unconstitutionally insulated from removal.
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July 29, 2024
A Texas dentist's office violated federal labor law by firing a front desk employee who raised concerns about working conditions and bonuses, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, recommending that the worker be reinstated with back pay.
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July 29, 2024
An electric company illegally fired a worker who testified before a Texas Senate committee, a split National Labor Relations Board determined on remand from the D.C. Circuit, drawing a dissent from the board's lone Republican member who said the worker's remarks weren't linked to a labor dispute.
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July 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a Kentucky hospital to recognize and bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local, agreeing with an agency judge that the hospital became a successor employer to the contractor Sodexo when it brought its food service operations in-house.
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July 26, 2024
Apple Inc. has signed onto the Biden administration's voluntary guidelines for "responsible" artificial intelligence innovation, joining the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and a dozen other leading tech companies, the White House announced Friday.
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July 26, 2024
The NFL and the Denver Broncos are looking to sidestep a former team member's disability discrimination lawsuit claiming the league and team unfairly fined him $532,500 for using THC to treat an injury, arguing that the collective bargaining agreement they signed preempts state law.
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July 26, 2024
The regional airline SkyWest is fighting a union's claim that it violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by failing to disclose how much money it gives an in-house employees' group, telling a Utah federal judge that only the U.S. secretary of labor can pursue such claims.
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July 26, 2024
A decertification election can proceed at a poultry company in Brooklyn, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, saying the parties didn't have a signed successive contract when a worker filed the petition to oust an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local.
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July 26, 2024
The city of Shelton, Connecticut, fired a public works employee who joined a local Teamsters union after the mayor and other bosses pressured him to invoke a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that allows government employees to avoid paying mandatory union dues, according to a federal lawsuit.
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July 26, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must rethink its decision finding a bargaining relationship between a union and construction contractor required the company to provide requested information, the Eighth Circuit ruled, finding there wasn't enough evidence to back up the board's conclusion over the relationship.
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July 26, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding whether warehouse workers are interstate transportation workers and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements. Here's a look at that proposed class action and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 26, 2024
BNSF Railway violated the Railway Labor Act by eliminating certain union positions at a Minnesota locomotive maintenance shop and assigning out those jobs' tasks to employees in other crafts, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers said in a suit filed in Minnesota federal court.
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July 26, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Friday finalized its rule rolling back Trump-era changes to union election procedures, restoring policies blocking union representation elections when an employer is alleged to have tainted the vote and insulating unions from removal if an employer voluntarily recognizes them.
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July 25, 2024
A public employee relations agency secured an early win against claims from Florida teachers unions that provisions in a state law pertaining to dues deductions and recertification violated the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge ruled, sending only one contracts clause allegation to trial.
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July 25, 2024
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a new request Thursday calling on Mexican authorities to investigate claims that workers at a components manufacturing plant were fired for protected activities and blocked from joining outside unions.
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July 25, 2024
After a year and a half of bargaining that hasn't yielded a union contract, SAG-AFTRA members who provide voiceover and acting work for video games are going on strike, the union announced Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
A Texas federal judge again denied SpaceX's request that he reconsider an earlier decision transferring to California the company's challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board, reaffirming a May decision holding the company did not provide good reason to rethink the transfer.
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July 25, 2024
During oral arguments Thursday in a "messy, complex" union fringe benefits dispute, a Sixth Circuit panel questioned whether ruling for a union pension fund would require a steel contractor to pay benefits twice for out-of-state workers.
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July 25, 2024
A state-run residential care facility was allowed to fire a nurse who kept requesting religious leave after the facility had already given her nine days off to practice nondenominational Christianity — seven more religious days than its union contract required, Washington state's high court ruled Thursday.
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July 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday scrapped from a proposed rule requirements for federal contractors to attest that they were following federal and state labor laws, tossing President Barack Obama's efforts an earlier version of the rule revamped.
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July 25, 2024
Starbucks illegally threatened the loss of a free college tuition benefit if workers unionized at a cafe in upstate New York, the National Labor Relations Board determined while affirming an agency judge's finding that the coffee chain's so-called captive audience meetings were lawful.
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July 25, 2024
The D.C. Circuit should reject a Phoenix cannabis dispensary's challenge to union certification, National Labor Relations Board attorneys argued, saying an agency official properly certified a United Food and Commercial Workers local as the dispensary workers' representative after tossing the argument that the union election notice was tainted.
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July 25, 2024
Kristina Yost of Jones Day has acted as lead counsel for Bloomberg LP in several high-profile Fair Labor Standards Act suits, helped a manufacturing company defeat a suit claiming it failed to pay overtime and worked to resolve an age discrimination case against IBM, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 25, 2024
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Proposition 22 statewide ballot measure from 2020 that exempts certain app-based drivers from the state's independent contractor classification law, a ruling that could have widespread consequences for the gig economy and driver litigation.
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July 24, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's decision last week to drop its appeal of a Texas federal judge's decision striking down its joint employer regulation leaves the future of the policy uncertain, with experts saying one option is for the board to return to setting the standard by deciding cases.