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August 06, 2024
A union pension fund has carried its $30 million Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against an investment advisory firm past the motion-to-dismiss phase on its second try, with a California federal judge holding that the fund qualified for an extension to its deadline to sue over pre-2016 conduct.
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August 06, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge declined to rule Tuesday on competing motions for summary judgment filed by trucking firm Yellow Corp. and Central States Pension Fund in a $7.8 billion dispute over Yellow's withdrawal from multistate employee pension programs, saying he needed more time to consider the issue.
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August 06, 2024
An Oklahoma electric company must accept the successor contract imposed on it by an arbitration board, the Tenth Circuit said Tuesday, upholding an Oklahoma federal court's decision that the pact between Brent Electric Co. and an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local was imposed lawfully.
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August 06, 2024
Universities concerned about violating students' privacy rights when reporting information to a union can now look to a National Labor Relations Board memo released Tuesday, which outlines how to comply with both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the National Labor Relations Act when disclosing students' records.
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August 06, 2024
Attorneys for Starbucks lawfully questioned workers during representation election hearings, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, concluding that the inquiries were relevant and evidence doesn't back the claim that the questions tried to uncover the identities of union supporters.
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August 05, 2024
A Missouri bank become the latest company to request an injunction pausing National Labor Relations Board proceedings on constitutional grounds, telling a Missouri federal court that it shouldn't have to face a case heard by agency judges who are unconstitutionally protected from presidential removal.
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August 05, 2024
A Las Vegas hospital can't stop a union from sending out copies of a collective bargaining agreement that included statements like "respect us" on the cover, a Service Employees International Union affiliate argued to a Nevada federal judge, saying the contract doesn't bar this type of speech.
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August 05, 2024
SpaceX asked the Fifth Circuit on Monday to step in after a Texas federal judge ordered its challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board transferred to California, saying the appeals court should either vacate the order or pause it until the court can rule on the company's injunction request.
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August 05, 2024
The owner of a Maryland construction company may be arrested for noncompliance with a district court's civil contempt orders regarding subpoenas, a Delaware federal judge ruled, approving the National Labor Relations Board's request for U.S. marshals to take the owner into custody.
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August 05, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing railroad companies' argument that the Federal Railroad Administration overstepped by implementing a rule that requires trains to be operated by at least two people, telling the Eleventh Circuit the rule was imposed without adequate justification or consideration of companies' interests.
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August 02, 2024
In a legally rare decision, a Connecticut state judge vacated an arbitration panel's determination that forced a city to reinstate a fired police lieutenant, ruling the arbiters were wrong to ignore an earlier court order banning the lieutenant from coming within 100 yards of the city's police chief.
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August 02, 2024
Two movie production companies for Hallmark films sought reversal of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found them in violation of federal labor law over unlawful terminations of strikers and interrogation, contending that the board awarded compensatory damages in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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August 02, 2024
Two recent decisions by Texas federal judges to block National Labor Relations Board suits on constitutional grounds will hamper the agency's power to prosecute certain cases in the short term, and could gut the agency in the long term if these once-fringe theories gain traction.
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August 02, 2024
A Detroit-area Coca-Cola distributor violated its contract with a Teamsters local by altering the health insurance available to retirees — removing a cap on prescription costs, requiring retirees to pay monthly premiums, limiting certain coverage and changing deductibles, the union alleged in a lawsuit in Michigan federal court.
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August 02, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge declined to grant a construction materials company a win on a truck driver's proposed wage and hour class action, saying to the extent the allegations were based on his work as a mobile sweeper driver, they were not superseded by a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 02, 2024
A Walgreens employee's request to have an election to decertify a United Food and Commercial Workers affiliate can't go forward, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, explaining that the union disclaimed interest in representing a bargaining unit at stores in New York.
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August 02, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a New York City preschool's motion to trim an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former administrator who claims she was falsely promised a promotion and faced discrimination after an accident.
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August 02, 2024
U.S. law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has opened an office in Munich, its second in Germany, in a move to expand its legal services in Europe.
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August 02, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for arguments regarding dueling partial summary judgment bids in a class action alleging Charter Communications failed to pay out unused vacation time when it merged with Time Warner Cable. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 01, 2024
Former Philadelphia union leader and convicted felon John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty will have to pay 90% of the attorney fees that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 incurred while participating in the government's public corruption and embezzlement cases against him, a federal judge said Thursday.
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August 01, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has urged a Washington federal court to toss a farmworker union's challenge to policies governing the prevailing wage, saying the union's issues actually stem from how state officials interpreted federal rules governing the wage rate.
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August 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court must resolve a circuit split over how to calculate the bills sent to companies that leave union pension plans, a group of employers has argued, fighting an argument by the trustees of an International Association of Machinists pension fund that the split is "tolerable."
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August 01, 2024
Federal labor law doesn't preempt some claims from unionized hospital workers in Pennsylvania over incorrect overtime pay, a federal judge determined, saying interpretation of a labor contract laying out the calculation of wage rates and pension contributions isn't necessary to resolve those allegations.
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August 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged an agency judge to find that players on the University of Southern California's football and basketball teams are employees under federal labor law, arguing their status as students doesn't mean they aren't workers.
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August 01, 2024
The compact that created the bistate Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission gave the commission the authority to require contractors to use project labor agreements in a publicly bid construction project, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday.