February 04, 2019
Railroad workers' unions have said they'll ask the First Circuit to review a Massachusetts federal judge's finding that the state's paid sick leave law is preempted by the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and cannot be enforced against railroads.
August 10, 2018
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday that the state's entire Earned Sick Time Law is preempted by the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and cannot be enforced against railroads, expanding an appellate court's ruling that found only one section covering just a worker's own sick leave was preempted.
February 21, 2018
The Massachusetts attorney general told a federal judge Tuesday that certain sections of a state law providing earned sick-time for employees aren't preempted by the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and that enforcing them against railroads won't interfere with interstate commerce.
January 18, 2018
Railroad giant CSX Transportation Inc. asked a Massachusetts federal judge Thursday to conclude that the state's entire earned sick time law is preempted by the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and cannot be enforced against railroads, arguing for the expansion of a previous circuit court ruling.
September 14, 2016
The Massachusetts attorney general on Wednesday appealed to the First Circuit a recent federal court ruling that the commonwealth cannot enforce its new paid sick leave law against railroads because they're already required to provide their employees sick leave benefits under federal law.
August 24, 2016
Massachusetts cannot enforce its new paid sick leave law against railroads because they're already required to provide their employees sick leave benefits under federal law, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
July 08, 2016
Applying Massachusetts' new paid sick time law to railway companies would fly in the face of federal authority and eviscerate Congress' intention to preempt state laws in a domain that belongs to the U.S. government, CSX told a federal judge in Boston on Friday.
June 07, 2016
CSX Transportation Inc. and Amtrak told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday that the commonwealth's new paid sick leave law cannot apply to railroad employees, insisting that state and federal officials are twisting up controlling federal statute to claim Massachusetts' law passes muster.
May 24, 2016
The federal government told a Massachusetts federal court on Monday that the commonwealth's new paid sick leave law is not preempted by a federal law that provides wage replacement for sick railroad workers, a boost for the state as it faces a lawsuit from CSX Transportation Inc. and Amtrak.
May 16, 2016
Massachusetts' attorney general insisted Monday that CSX Transportation Inc. and Amtrak are not exempt from the state's new paid sick time law and urged a federal court not to let the rail companies "undo the results of the democratic process."