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September 06, 2024
A D.C. federal judge should make the U.S. Postal Service follow an arbitrator's order to assign mail-truck unloading work to union members in Denver, a postal workers' union argued, saying court intervention is needed because the USPS still allows private truck drivers to perform that work.
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September 06, 2024
The Ninth Circuit will weigh two cases involving whether class claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act can be forced into solo arbitration, and the Second Circuit will hear Yale University workers' bid to revive their retirement plan mismanagement suit. Here are four upcoming oral argument sessions that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.
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September 06, 2024
Domestic steel companies and a labor union are seeking additional antidumping and countervailing duties on corrosion-resistant steel imports, telling U.S. trade officials that overseas producers used unfair trade practices to gain an edge in the U.S. market.
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September 06, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board told the D.C. Circuit that Google and its contractor, Cognizant, exercised the level of control typical of joint employers, urging the court to keep the board's conclusion that the two entities must bargain together with a union.
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September 06, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board can't have an indicative ruling to pause an unfair labor practice case against SpaceX amid a challenge to the constitutionality of the board's structure, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying the agency didn't file a separate motion requesting such relief.
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September 06, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a group of workers' attempt to revive their claim that Amazon owed them pay for time they spent undergoing anti-theft screenings after their shifts and during breaks.
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September 06, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has granted a grassroots union's petition for a representation election at a New York City nonprofit, rejecting the nonprofit's argument that the newly established union isn't built out enough to qualify as a labor organization under federal law.
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September 06, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a wage suit against Charter Communications alleging overtime pay violations. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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September 05, 2024
A federal judge in Puerto Rico has found the sports agency tied to music megastar Bad Bunny in contempt, saying the firm defied the court's order to arbitrate claims accusing the Major League Baseball Players Association of hobbling its business.
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September 05, 2024
A candidate in a steward election accused a Teamsters affiliate's top leaders of spreading falsehoods about him in the run-up to the vote, telling a Michigan federal judge that the defamatory statements led him to lose.
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September 05, 2024
The Second Circuit appeared unlikely Thursday to revive a union pension fund's suit looking to hold Wells Fargo and Ocwen Financial Corp. liable for losses on mortgage-backed securities, with two judges signaling the risky loans the fund sued over might not be covered by federal benefits law.
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September 05, 2024
A Minnesota healthcare system urged a federal court to throw out an arbitrator's award in favor of a union, saying the arbitrator ran afoul of a collective bargaining agreement by penalizing the system under state law for recouping wages it overpaid to several employees.
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September 05, 2024
A second National Labor Relations Board official has determined that Amazon jointly employs delivery drivers who work for a contractor, setting up a potential complaint accusing the company of threatening workers over unionization efforts.
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September 05, 2024
A commercial truck driver training company violated federal labor law by demoting a worker who complained about a lack of timely pay, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel determined in granting default judgment, while one board member found that evidence didn't show the business was served board prosecutors' complaint.
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September 04, 2024
A logistics company told a Fifth Circuit panel during oral arguments Wednesday that an employee who was fired for allegedly disparaging comments made over LinkedIn wasn't protected under labor law, although the panel pointed out that an employee can take protected wage complaints to outside parties.
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September 04, 2024
An entertainment industry union local's admissions and job referral practices make it harder for Black and Latino applicants to secure union membership and positions at production studios like HBO and CBS, an electrical technician alleged in a proposed class action filed in New York federal court.
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September 04, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision abandoning its long-standing deference to administrative agencies should not affect the Third Circuit's review of a National Labor Relations Board order broadening when individual employees engage in protected actions, the agency argued in a brief to the appeals court.
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September 04, 2024
A Service Employees International Union affiliate told the Eight Circuit that the National Labor Relations Board wrongly decided not to award a notice reading for a Missouri hospital, arguing that the hospital engaged in widespread labor law violations.
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September 04, 2024
A Washington appeals court refused to overturn a state agency's determination that a concrete company owes workers more than $370,000 in wages for working at a disposal site, saying the work was sufficiently related to a public works project to trigger the state's prevailing wage law.
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September 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's Indianapolis office announced Tuesday that it approved a $200,000 settlement with back pay and benefits to resolve an unfair labor practice case alleging an aluminum windows company helped circulate a decertification petition.
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September 03, 2024
Two National Labor Relations Board cases grace the Third Circuit's September session, when panels will probe the agency's suits against Starbucks Corp. for firing Philadelphia workers attempting to unionize and a plastic company accused of firing a safety whistleblower.
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September 03, 2024
Three NLRB members should recuse themselves after they voted to allow the agency's general counsel to seek a federal court injunction involving a fired worker at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse, Amazon argued to the board, saying the administrative case should be dismissed given due process concerns.
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September 03, 2024
The California Senate voted in favor of a union-backed bill that would bar employers from requiring employees to attend meetings related to religious or political matters — including company-organized meetings used to discourage union-formation — sending the so-called captive audience bill to the governor's desk.
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September 03, 2024
A New Jersey state court judge on Friday tossed the United Auto Workers' complaint claiming a law excluding casino workers from secondhand smoking protections violates the state constitution, reasoning that the law doesn't inhibit the employees' right to pursue safety.
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September 03, 2024
An Arizona property management company has urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the company unlawfully fired a worker who talked about wages, joining a chorus of employers arguing the labor agency is unconstitutionally structured.