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July 16, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors should continue seeking injunctions in federal court while pursuing unfair labor practice litigation in administrative court despite the U.S. Supreme Court making it harder to obtain those injunctions, the agency's general counsel said in a memo issued Tuesday.
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July 16, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit from a Black worker accusing a manufacturing company of firing him in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination with his union, saying there's no error in the lower court's decision despite it relying on his former plant manager's flubbed testimony.
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July 16, 2024
The trustees of two union health plans said Elevance Health Inc. and its subsidiaries violated federal benefits law when they overpaid themselves for administrative services and medical providers for patient care, arguing the insurer had significant control over the management of the plans and their assets.
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July 16, 2024
A Texas-based energy company told a Galveston federal judge Tuesday that parties are afforded "certain rights not to face trial," pushing the court to halt an upcoming National Labor Relations Board administrative proceeding against the company on the basis that the board's process is unconstitutionally structured.
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July 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's finding that Google and its contractor Cognizant are joint employers is "riddled with … flaws," the two companies argued to the D.C. Circuit, challenging the board's application of its 2020 rule when reviewing control over supervision and benefits.
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July 16, 2024
Workers at a Jollibee fast-food restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey, can vote on representation by an independent union, a National Labor Relations Board official found, saying Jollibee Workers United qualifies as a labor organization under federal labor law.
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July 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board will review an agency official's decision to let four supervisors at a Southern California company vote on unionizing, indicating Tuesday that it plans to take a closer look at whether the supervisors have the type of authority that would render them ineligible to unionize.
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July 16, 2024
Law firms' ongoing initiatives to address diversity challenges have driven another year of progress, with the representation of minority attorneys continuing to improve across the board, albeit at a slower pace than in previous years. Here's our data dive into minority representation at law firms in 2023.
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July 16, 2024
Law360’s law firm survey shows that firms' efforts to diversify their equity partner ranks are lagging. But some have embraced a broader talent pool at the equity partner level. Here are the ones that stood out.
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July 15, 2024
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is trying to intervene in a suit over a California law's mandate for labor peace agreements to obtain money, a cannabis retailer claimed, telling the court that the union lacks an interest to justify its intervention.
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July 15, 2024
A Kansas federal judge held firm Monday on her decision to throw out Yellow Corp.'s $137 million lawsuit against the Teamsters, in which the trucking company accused the union of driving it into bankruptcy by fighting a necessary corporate restructuring.
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July 15, 2024
Remnants remain of the "culture of fear and reprisal" that gripped the United Auto Workers when union leaders were embezzling funds and accepting bribes from automakers in the 2010s, but progress has been made toward cultural change at the union, a court-appointed monitor said in his latest report.
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July 15, 2024
An administrative law judge's decision reinstating a Jersey City police officer after the officer was fired for off-duty marijuana use provides an argument for dismissing the city's lawsuit against the state in which it argues that federal law is at odds with New Jersey law, police officers say in a letter filed Monday in federal court.
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July 15, 2024
A bakery in New York City's Harlem neighborhood violated federal labor law by firing a worker who complained about issues workers had with tips and scheduling at the shop, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, rejecting the bakery's argument that the worker quit.
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July 15, 2024
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the Chapter 11 case of trucking firm Yellow Corp., telling a Delaware bankruptcy judge the $7.8 billion dispute over Yellow's withdrawal from multistate employee pension programs is a pure question of law that can be decided in the PBGC's favor.
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July 15, 2024
A pension fund for the International Association of Machinists urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb its win in a dispute with two employers over the correct way to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer retirement plans, saying retroactive recalculations are valid.
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July 15, 2024
Workers United and former Starbucks employees must provide information requested in subpoenas about impacts to union support at a Long Island cafe following a worker's firing, a New York federal judge ruled, saying the company's probe is relevant to a National Labor Relations Board injunction case.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 12, 2024
In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, the landmark decision has emerged as a live issue in dozens of administrative challenges, with federal courts already pausing agency regulations expanding LGBTQ+ rights in education and healthcare and with a wave of parties seeking to use the new decision to win their cases.
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July 12, 2024
Apple should be held responsible for a federal labor law violation for interrogating, disciplining and firing a software engineer who sent mass emails about her workplace concerns, a National Labor Relations Board prosecutor told an agency judge after a hearing in a case against the technology giant.
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July 12, 2024
A divided D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding that a Brooklyn hotel's operator illegally refused to bargain with a union over economics until noneconomic issues were settled, finding the board's bargaining order was proper under federal labor law.
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July 12, 2024
A recent Fifth Circuit ruling vacating a National Labor Relations Board decision that restored protections for workers who mouth off during workplace actions doesn't undercut the board's policy but may complicate its enforcement, at least in the short term.
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July 12, 2024
An Ohio federal judge refused to throw out a Black truck driver's suit against the International United Auto Workers, saying he put forward enough information to support his allegation that the union did a poor job of representing him when his employer fired him for his social media posts.
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July 12, 2024
The first half of 2024 saw labor gaining ground in contract talks between Starbucks and Workers United and an organizing victory for the United Auto Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, but experts shared that the presidential election this year could affect unions' momentum.
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July 12, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge tossed two former union members' claims that their Laborers local maintained an unwritten, arbitrary rule at its Las Vegas hiring hall that it didn't tell members about, holding that the rule was sensible and members were informed of it.