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July 08, 2024
The court-appointed monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers' compliance with a 2021 consent decree that resolved a corruption probe told a Michigan federal judge Monday that the union cannot withhold certain documents from him, saying the consent decree doesn't entitle the union to confidentiality.
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July 08, 2024
The National Education Association locked out employees represented by a staff union Monday after workers were on the picket line for three days during an annual meeting of the national organization.
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July 08, 2024
A Massachusetts appeals panel kept a trial court's decision tossing two school nurses' suit claiming unpaid meal breaks, saying the duo was paid for the breaks they spent while remaining on school grounds.
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July 08, 2024
An Ohio federal judge properly dismissed a fired white female prison guard's claim that her union failed to fight as hard for her reinstatement as it did for the Black male guard fired alongside her, the union told the Sixth Circuit, saying her claims lack merit.
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July 08, 2024
Cozen O'Connor expanded its Pittsburgh office this week with the addition of an attorney with nearly two decades of experience in labor and employment law, who moved his practice after more than five years with K&L Gates LLP.
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July 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board rightly found that a hospital in Puerto Rico violated federal labor law by unilaterally slashing workers' hours, the D.C. Circuit ruled, saying the hospital can't excuse its actions with claims about financial effects from the pandemic.
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July 08, 2024
The second half of the year will feature action in several cases with major implications for the labor law landscape, including SpaceX's suits seeking to gut the National Labor Relations Board and a board case that could extend organizing rights to college athletes. Here, Law360 looks at these and other cases to watch in the second half of 2024.
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July 05, 2024
Seminal rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term will reshape many facets of American society in the coming years. Already, however, the rulings offer glimpses of how the justices view specific circuit courts, which have themselves been reshaped by an abundance of new judges.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's lethargic pace of decision-making this term left the justices to issue a slew of highly anticipated and controversial rulings during the term's final week — rulings that put the court's ideological divisions on vivid display. Here, Law360 takes a data dive into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's dismantling of a 40-year-old judicial deference doctrine, coupled with rulings stripping federal agencies of certain enforcement powers and exposing them to additional litigation, has established the October 2023 term as likely the most consequential in administrative law history.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's session ended with a series of blockbuster cases that granted the president broad immunity, changed federal gun policy and kneecapped administrative agencies. And many of the biggest decisions fell along partisan lines.
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July 05, 2024
When the high court limited the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol, the justices did not vote along ideological lines. In a year marked by 6-3 splits, what accounts for the departure? Here are some moments from oral arguments that may have swayed the justices.
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July 05, 2024
In a U.S. Supreme Court term teeming with serious showdowns, the august air at oral arguments filled with laughter after an attorney mentioned her plastic surgeon and a justice seemed to diss his colleagues, to cite just two of the term's mirthful moments. Here, we look at the funniest moments of the term.
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July 05, 2024
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including gerrymandering, abortion and federal agency authority, and a hot bench ever more willing to engage in a lengthy back-and-forth with advocates. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 05, 2024
United Auto Workers is urging a Michigan federal judge to declare that the union can withhold confidential information — such as "highly sensitive" collective bargaining strategy — from the "unprecedented" amount of discovery requested by a monitor investigating alleged financial misconduct and retaliation within the union.
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July 05, 2024
A Washington federal judge partly blocked U.S. Department of Labor rules on prevailing wage rates that a union claimed depressed farmworkers' wages, saying the agency failed to consider effects on workers and must reinstate wage rates from 2020.
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July 05, 2024
The first half of 2024 included several significant decisions for labor law, including the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling toughening the standard for evaluating injunctions requested by National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and a Texas federal judge's decision striking down the board's joint employer rule. Here, Law360 examines these cases, as well as some of the other most important decisions from the first six months of the year.
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July 05, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday will consider a Long Island restaurant's bid to dismiss a worker's lawsuit claiming the restaurant violated federal and state law by retaining a service charge instead of dividing it among servers as it told customers.
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July 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board can't press pause on SpaceX's second fight over the constitutionality of the agency's structure, a Texas federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the board couldn't demonstrate why the proceeding should be stayed.
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July 03, 2024
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees affiliates accused the city of Philadelphia of violating labor contracts by not bargaining over the end to remote work, telling a state court that the city's move would impact around 2,900 workers in the bargaining unit.
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July 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board recently issued its first order requiring an employer to bargain with a union under a relaxed standard for such orders based on violations during representation elections, but attorneys said the decision did not do much to clarify how the new standard will work.
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July 03, 2024
The owner of a shuttered New York City hotel is on the hook for more than $400,000 in payments to engineers required under an arbitration award, a hotel workers union argued, telling a federal judge that the owner can't evade the arbitrator's decision.
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July 03, 2024
The Bronx Defenders Union's bargaining committee voted on Tuesday to authorize an unlimited unfair labor practice strike beginning the week of July 22, saying the organization's staff continue to face high attrition, unwieldy caseloads and some of the lowest pay rates of New York City's public defenders.
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July 03, 2024
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
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July 02, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board dispute alleging a Kentucky public defender corporation refused to bargain over outsourcing of work with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local should go forward, agency prosecutors argued, saying a nonboard settlement between the parties doesn't warrant termination of the proceeding.