Expert Analysis

Consistency Is Key In Pipeline Incident Investigations

A pipeline release that causes worker injury does not trigger one investigation, but five or more, running on different timetab...(read more)

NLRB Ruling Allows Leeway On Disciplining Misconduct

The National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Lion Elastomers gives employers more room to discipline employees for t...(read more)

Defending Hospital Antisteering Clauses From DOJ Scrutiny

The Trump administration has recently made clear that pursuing antitrust challenges to antisteering provisions in hospital-insu...(read more)

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5th Circ. Backs NLRB Bargaining Order For Hyatt Operator

The Fifth Circuit has upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a Texas Hyatt hotel operator to bargain with a UNITE HERE local, ruling that the company failed to establish that the union interfered with th...(read more)

Mass. Voters Approve Public Defenders' Bid For Union Rights

Attorneys and other employees of Massachusetts' public defender agency should have the opportunity to decide whether to form a union, voters said Tuesday in approving a ballot measure authorizing a change to state law.

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Teamsters Say NLRB Prosecutors Can't Redo UNFI Row

Two Teamsters locals on Tuesday urged the National Labor Relations Board to toss a complaint accusing them of unlawfully attempting to enforce an arbitration award, saying the case depends on conduct that falls well outsid...(read more)

En Banc 9th Circ. Kiboshes Election Threat Order Against DOJ

New litigation brought by unions and civil rights groups seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from threatening election workers whipsawed through the Ninth Circuit at lightning speed Tuesday, with a split en banc...(read more)

Transport Cos. Urge 11th Circ. To Ax NLRB Bargaining Rulings

A maritime transport company and its subsidiary asked the Eleventh Circuit to set aside two National Labor Relations Board decisions ordering the companies to bargain with a union, saying the court should take a fresh look...(read more)

Chicago Says Payroll Error Wasn't Willful In Cops' OT Suit

Chicago urged an Illinois federal judge to limit damages in a long-running overtime lawsuit, arguing that a payroll mistake that led to some officers being underpaid was unintentional, while the officers said the city's wa...(read more)

Groups Push Making It Harder For Unions To Win Elections

A pair of free-market think tanks asked the Republican-majority National Labor Relations Board to make it harder for workplaces to unionize, telling the board that unions' wins in representation elections should count only...(read more)

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Ogletree Brings On 3 Attys In Calif. Specializing In Litigation

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded two of its California offices with the recent additions of three attorneys who moved their practices to Los Angeles and San Diego.

House Democrat Urges Labor Agencies To Preserve Records

The top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee urged the U.S. Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board and other federal agencies on Wednesday to preserve government records ahead of the next Co...(read more)

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Medical Transport Co. To Pay $2.2M In EEOC Beard Ban Suit

Emergency services provider Global Medical Response will pay $2.2 million and create a new category of nonemergency jobs to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the company's strict no-beard...(read more)

Turner Sports, Ex-HR Director Reach Deal In Severance Suit

A one-time Warner Bros. subsidiary has struck a deal to end a race bias suit from a former human resources director who claimed she was denied severance benefits after she quit following Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia's 20...(read more)

4th Circ. Keeps CIA Officers' Appeal Rights In DEI Firing Suit

All but one of the Fourth Circuit's judges voted to deny the federal government's request for an en banc rehearing of a panel's split decision that allowed CIA officers to appeal terminations that were allegedly due to the...(read more)

Troops Urge Justices To Delay Review Of Military Trans Ban

A group of transgender servicemembers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to review the Trump administration's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military for now, saying the government's current appeal...(read more)

Ex-Hospital Worker Can't Get Out Of Bias Settlement

A Michigan federal judge has ordered a former William Beaumont Hospital employee to honor a settlement resolving her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, rejecting her attempts to narrow the agreement to exclude potential med...(read more)

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Shake Shack Wants Wage Suit In Arbitration

Shake Shack urged a New York federal judge to send a former employee's proposed wage class and collective action to arbitration, arguing that she electronically signed a binding agreement requiring her to pursue claims ove...(read more)

Construction Worker Says Firm Split Pay To Dodge OT

A construction worker has accused an environmental cleanup and roofing company in Maine federal court of paying crews their regular $50 hourly rate for overtime hours and issuing separate checks for those hours without an ...(read more)

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9th Circ. Told Apple Stock Awards Belong In OT Pay

Hourly Apple workers have asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their claims that the tech giant underpaid them for overtime by excluding the value of company stock they received, arguing that a lower court wrongly allowed App...(read more)

Calif. AG Rob Bonta Wins 2nd Term Over Michael Gates

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general d...(read more)

Worker Says Eatery Co. At Denver Airport Owes Preshift Pay

A former food preparer at a Taco Bell location in Denver International Airport sued the restaurant's operator in Colorado state court, alleging the company failed to pay hourly employees for time spent undergoing security ...(read more)

NYC Flags Revised 9th Circ. Gig Worker Ruling In Tip Fight

New York City has cited a revised Ninth Circuit ruling backing Seattle's gig worker protections in its fight to defend rules requiring DoorDash and Uber to offer customers the option to tip at checkout, according to a cour...(read more)

JPMorgan Gets Wage, Pregnancy Bias Suit Sent To Arbitration

A former JPMorgan Chase employee must arbitrate her wage-and-hour and pregnancy discrimination claims, a California federal judge ruled, rejecting her arguments that the bank's arbitration agreement was unfair and one-sided.