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June 14, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a motion to certify a class of former workers at the Four Seasons Hotel New York who claim the hotel violated federal and state law by not notifying them of furloughs and that the hotel denied them contractually required severance. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 14, 2024
Columbia University's student worker union includes those who logged fewer than 15 hours per week, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Friday, rejecting the university's argument that the United Auto Workers local should exclude them.
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June 14, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential settlement approval in a pay stubs class action against Delta Air Lines that went to the Ninth Circuit and the California Supreme Court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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June 13, 2024
A heating and air conditioning installation company in Indiana violated federal labor law by making workers sign an employment agreement with a noncompete, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Thursday, calling the provision "ridiculously broad in scope."
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June 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher Thursday for the National Labor Relations Board to win temporary injunctions to stop unfair labor practices, rebuking the notion that judges should go easier on the agency than they do other injunction seekers. Here, Law360 looks at three takeaways from this term's biggest labor decision.
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June 13, 2024
A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Thursday moved new legislation that would prohibit classifying student-athletes as employees of any institution, conference or association to the floor for a vote, as the bill's sponsor pushed back at what he described as the influence of big labor.
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June 13, 2024
Workers at a nonprofit human services agency in St. Louis can vote on representation by a Communications Workers of America local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, siding with the local on what the bargaining unit will look like if the union wins the election.
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June 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that the agency will close its New York City office of administrative law judges in July and transfer pending cases to Washington, D.C.
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June 13, 2024
Attorneys from Philadelphia-area law firms Edelson Lechtzin LLP and Willig Williams & Davidson have asked for appointment as interim co-lead counsel for a potential class of former University of the Arts employees who say the school's sudden closure violated federal statutes.
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June 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has granted a Service Employees International Union local's request to stay a representation election at a New York security company, indicating its willingness to consider whether the local was improperly excluded from the running and whether case law from 1984 should stand.
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June 13, 2024
Starbucks illegally maintained a policy telling workers to communicate in a professional and respectful way, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the coffee chain hadn't shown how the rule furthered its business interests.
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June 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for the National Labor Relations Board to win injunctions against employers Thursday in a case involving Starbucks, directing courts to strictly apply a four-factor test when the board sues to stem alleged unfair labor practices.
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June 12, 2024
Republican members on a U.S. House of Representatives labor subcommittee teed off on the National Labor Relations Board's direction under Democratic Chairman Lauren McFerran at a hearing Wednesday as their counterparts in the U.S. Senate consider her recent nomination for a third term.
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June 12, 2024
The Fifth Circuit said Wednesday that it will continue weighing whether a Texas federal judge must pause an administrative suit against SpaceX from proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board, amid the company's constitutional challenge to the agency's structure.
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June 12, 2024
An arbitrator has found a Service Employees International Union affiliate liable for more than $6 million in damages for replacement worker costs from a strike, a California hospital said Wednesday, while a union representative told Law360 that the decision is "outrageous and unprecedented."
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June 12, 2024
Home Depot reached a proposed settlement to an allegation that it violated federal labor law by telling a Minneapolis worker to keep quiet about the company's investigation into his claims of racist treatment by a coworker, according to paperwork presented to a National Labor Relations Board judge.
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June 12, 2024
A Massachusetts cannabis retailer found to have engaged in union busting is appealing a district court order that directed it to bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local and to offer to rehire two fired union supporters.
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June 12, 2024
A security guards union violated federal labor law by continuing to collect dues from certain guards at the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington, D.C., after they revoked the union's authorization to do so, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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June 12, 2024
The Second Circuit vacated on Wednesday a New York federal judge's order barring Amazon from firing workers for engaging in union activity, saying the judge did not explain why she imposed the broad prohibition while at the same time finding the company did not have to rehire a fired union activist.
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June 11, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's final rule including protections for foreign farmworkers within the H-2A visa program doesn't comport with federal labor law, a group of Republican attorneys general claimed in Georgia federal court, saying the rule doesn't give the same rights to U.S. citizen workers.
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June 11, 2024
A landmark settlement the NCAA announced in May in an antitrust class action brought by former college athletes reportedly sets a path for schools to share revenue with players, and experts said it could bolster active efforts to deem college athletes employees under federal labor law.
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June 11, 2024
A UPS worker accused a Teamsters affiliate in Illinois federal court of violating its fair representation duty by "colluding" with the shipping giant to slash his hours and pay him incorrectly while also alleging that the company retaliated against him for an unfair labor practice charge.
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June 11, 2024
A Phoenix cannabis dispensary asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board order compelling the company to recognize a United Food and Commercial Workers local, saying the board shouldn't have certified the union because of an issue with the election notice.
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June 11, 2024
Former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to postpone his sentencing for his bribery and embezzlement convictions, pointing to the possibility of the government retrying him on extortion charges following an April mistrial in that case.
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June 11, 2024
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and other union leaders are under investigation over allegations of retaliation and financial misconduct, an independent monitor has detailed in a report, saying the union has "slow-rolled" access to documents for the probe.