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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.
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July 24, 2024
A floor cleaning company can't pursue its claim that Safeway took part in a civil conspiracy with a Service Employees International Union affiliate to award a contract to a competitor, a California federal judge ruled.
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July 24, 2024
Six City University of New York professors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ax a state law that lets unions represent all employees of certain public-sector workplaces, saying the law violates their First Amendment right to dissociate from advocacy groups that support policies they oppose.
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July 24, 2024
Union organizing did not lead Starbucks to combine three stores in Seattle into one corporate unit, the coffee giant argued to a National Labor Relations Board judge, opposing agency prosecutors' bid for various remedies, including an "unprecedented" disbandment of a business operation called the Heritage District.
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July 24, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by offering smaller raises to employees of stores where workers started a nationwide union drive than it did to nonunion workers, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, recommending a broad cease-and-desist order against the company given its "proclivity" to break the law.
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July 24, 2024
Labor unions and energy industry groups are joining Enbridge Energy's push for the full Sixth Circuit to rehear a panel decision that sent a Michigan lawsuit aiming to shut down the company's Line 5 pipeline back to state courts.
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July 24, 2024
Rebecca Sivitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has helped several companies successfully handle mergers and restructuring, including helping The Kroger Co. face a first-of-its-kind challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 23, 2024
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday backed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that a mining company violated federal labor law by unilaterally barring employees from clocking in more than five minutes before their shift, but it denied a union's bid to extend the violation to strike replacements.
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July 23, 2024
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has protested over terms of an Army Corps of Engineers construction contract requiring bidders to enter into a project labor agreement, mandated by regulation, saying the PLA requirement violates a competitive contracting law.
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July 23, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court should step into a dispute over how National Labor Relations Board prosecutors prove that employers harbor anti-union bias, considering the justices just held that courts have greater authority than agencies to interpret federal statutes, a Los Angeles hotel told the high court.
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July 23, 2024
A nonprofit advocating for graduate students accused the union representing them at the University of Chicago of antisemitism, claiming the union is violating the First Amendment by making student workers pay fees to continue their employment despite statements the union has made about the war in Gaza.
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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.