Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced.
Labor advocates are raising concerns over a conservative group's framework for changes in the next Republican administration that calls for the National Labor Relations Board to support the position that political conflicts of interest can support fair representation claims against unions, among other changes to labor law.
The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion Friday ending its practice of deferring to agencies' legal interpretations cuts back on but doesn't curb the deference courts have historically given the National Labor Relations Board, though just how much the courts will second-guess the board's policy choices remains to be seen.
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Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced.
Labor advocates are raising concerns over a conservative group's framework for changes in the next Republican administration that calls for the National Labor Relations Board to support the position that political conflicts of interest can support fair representation claims against unions, among other changes to labor law.
The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion Friday ending its practice of deferring to agencies' legal interpretations cuts back on but doesn't curb the deference courts have historically given the National Labor Relations Board, though just how much the courts will second-guess the board's policy choices remains to be seen.
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July 02, 2024
A Michigan hospital that withdrew recognition from a union urged a federal judge to dismiss a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid against it, arguing the related agency proceeding is unconstitutional because administrative law judges and the board have protections from presidential removal.
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July 02, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to undo the tossing of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a Broadway producer who accused a stage workers union of illegally putting him on a "do not work" list, ruling that the union is shielded from liability since it acted in legitimate self-interest.
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July 02, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the D.C. Circuit to rethink its approval of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision granting market benefits for a small-scale solar energy project in Montana following the justices' blockbuster decision upending judicial deference to regulatory agencies.
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July 02, 2024
System administrators can't join a bargaining unit of technicians represented by an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers affiliate at a Florida aerospace facility, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, saying there isn't enough evidence that the administrators' role changed significantly.
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July 01, 2024
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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July 01, 2024
A building management services company fought the certification of an International Union of Operating Engineers local at the D.C. Circuit on Monday, claiming a National Labor Relations Board agent left the ballot box "unsecured and unattended" during a representation election.
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July 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the American Civil Liberties Union filed dueling briefs in a board challenge to an ex-policy attorney's firing, with prosecutors claiming she was fired for speaking out about bad bosses and the group claiming she relentlessly smeared Black supervisors.
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July 01, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board should find that Amazon lawfully barred a pro-union banner in the breakroom at a Staten Island, New York, facility, the e-commerce giant argued, disputing an agency judge's conclusions of federal labor law violations and credibility findings for union salts.
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July 01, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to grant a marketing company's request to block a U.S. Department of Labor rule that raises the salary thresholds for claiming overtime-exemption under federal law, saying the firm failed to show it will be harmed by the new standards.
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July 01, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by enforcing a rule that barred workers from putting messages like "union strong" on customers' cups during a "sip-in" action, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the policy could dissuade a reasonable worker from participating in union activities.
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July 01, 2024
Legal challenges to federal regulations can be brought outside the normal statute of limitations if someone isn't adversely affected until after the six-year window of time to file suit, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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June 28, 2024
By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys. But for those attorneys, the achievement is merely a means to an end, and experts expect a litigation blitzkrieg to materialize quickly in the aftermath.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overrule a decades-old judicial deference doctrine may cause the "eternal fog of uncertainty" surrounding federal agency actions to dissipate and level the playing field in challenges of government policies, but lawyers warn it raises new questions over what rules courts must follow and how judges will implement them.
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June 28, 2024
A clause in a firefighters union's collective bargaining agreement that permits taking paid leave for negotiations does not violate the Lone Star state's constitution, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday while reversing an award of attorney fees and sanctions against some of the plaintiffs.
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June 28, 2024
A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reliance on in-house courts spares the National Labor Relations Board's similar administrative system for now, but leaves the door open to future challenges to how the board operates, experts said.
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June 28, 2024
Claims that an oil pipeline operator wrongfully fired an employee should go before a jury, not the National Labor Relations Board, the company argued in a new lawsuit in Texas federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's rebuke of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house court.
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June 28, 2024
U.S. Marshals should take the owner of a construction company into custody for his noncompliance with court orders over subpoenas, the National Labor Relations Board told a Delaware federal judge, calling for more stringent measures and thousands of dollars in fines.
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June 28, 2024
Tesla Inc. laid off approximately 14,000 employees without giving them a fair warning required under both federal and California law, a former parts advisor alleges in a putative class action seeking back pay and penalties on the automotive company.
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June 28, 2024
An Illinois sprinkler installer that faked its shutdown to avoid working with employees' new union should have to pay workers for the lost opportunity to bargain, the union told the National Labor Relations Board, urging it to impose stronger remedies after ruling in the union's favor.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, depriving courts of a commonly used analytic tool and leaving lots of questions about what comes next.
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June 27, 2024
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay a combined $175 million and provide drivers with a suite of benefits to settle an employee classification lawsuit brought by the state of Massachusetts.
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June 27, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law when it suspended employees who presented demands for a raise to their manager at a South Carolina cafe, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors told an agency judge, but the coffee chain claims the manager "was targeted by partners in a workplace violence event."
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June 27, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's first application of a restored standard shielding workers from punishment when they mouth off to bosses during workplace protests demonstrates the strength of the so-called loss-of-protection standards, particularly in the hands of worker-friendly decision-makers, experts say.
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June 27, 2024
A D.C. Circuit panel's holding that the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act could compel a letter carriers union to publish a union officer candidate's advertisement in its magazine sets a dangerous precedent, the union argued Thursday, urging the full D.C. Circuit to undo the panel's ruling.
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June 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Texas federal court it included a minimum salary aspect in executive, administrative or professional rules since the Fair Labor Standards Act's inception, arguing a marketing firm doesn't have the basis to halt a final overtime rule.