January 01, 2024
Food and beverage attorneys have no shortage of interesting litigation to follow in 2024, from Starbucks' sprawling fight with employees who are determined to organize, to claims over heavy metals and "forever chemicals" contaminating food, and McDonald's asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue of no-poach clauses in franchisee agreements.
June 22, 2023
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors dropped their bid to have a federal court order the reinstatement of a Starbucks worker who testified before Congress about anti-union retaliation, after the company offered to rehire him.
May 12, 2023
Starbucks urged a Georgia federal judge to probe the National Labor Relations Board's bid to make the company rehire a worker whom prosecutors claim it fired for union organizing, saying the board's belated injunction request is moot because the company already offered to bring him back.
April 26, 2023
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors asked a Georgia federal judge Wednesday for an injunction compelling Starbucks to reinstate a former employee of the company's Augusta, Georgia, store who officials say was discharged in retaliation for union activities.