A recent National Labor Relations Board complaint alleging Mozilla rejected an applicant because of her online activism offers a warning to employers not to factor candidates' organizing into hiring decisions, though the difficulty of rooting out these cases mitigates the risks.
The United Auto Workers has launched its most ambitious campaign yet to organize nonunion auto plants in the U.S., and experts said the momentum the union built from its recent strike at the Big Three automakers and the subsequent labor deals it reached gives the effort more promise than previous attempts.
A coalition of business groups asked the D.C. Circuit on Monday for permission to intervene in a union's bid to broaden the scope of the National Labor Relations Board's new joint employer rule, telling the court it intends to argue that the union's petition for review should be tossed.
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A recent National Labor Relations Board complaint alleging Mozilla rejected an applicant because of her online activism offers a warning to employers not to factor candidates' organizing into hiring decisions, though the difficulty of rooting out these cases mitigates the risks.
The United Auto Workers has launched its most ambitious campaign yet to organize nonunion auto plants in the U.S., and experts said the momentum the union built from its recent strike at the Big Three automakers and the subsequent labor deals it reached gives the effort more promise than previous attempts.
A coalition of business groups asked the D.C. Circuit on Monday for permission to intervene in a union's bid to broaden the scope of the National Labor Relations Board's new joint employer rule, telling the court it intends to argue that the union's petition for review should be tossed.
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December 06, 2023
Phillips 66 illegally used rules about camera use to fire a worker and discipline another employee who took part in protected activities, the National Labor Relations Board said, severing a claim about the legality of the company's policies and sending it back to an agency judge for reconsideration.
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December 06, 2023
Starbucks violated federal labor law by barring workers at a New York City mega cafe from wearing pro-union T-shirts, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Wednesday, applying the board's revised test for vetting employers' dress codes.
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December 06, 2023
A Ninth Circuit judge on Wednesday questioned Starbucks' confidence that the National Labor Relations Board should not have held a union election via mail over pandemic health concerns, noting COVID-19 case numbers were "bouncing all over the place" at the time.
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December 06, 2023
The Eighth Circuit knocked the National Labor Relations Board's analysis of a U.S. Air Force contractor's termination of more than a dozen workers who discussed unionizing, saying in a decision Wednesday that evidence didn't support the board's findings of federal labor law violations.
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December 06, 2023
A group of Wells Fargo retail banking employees in Florida filed a representation election petition Wednesday, a Communications Workers of America-backed advocacy group said, marking the third time frontline workers have done so at the banking giant.
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December 06, 2023
A Second Circuit panel appeared receptive Wednesday to a New York hospital's attempt to overturn a National Labor Relations Board decision that held it unlawfully fired a nurse who left an operating room to participate in a union action, with judges questioning whether anti-union sentiment motivated the hospital to fire her.
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December 06, 2023
SAG-AFTRA members voted to ratify a three-year labor contract worth over $1 billion with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that includes minimum compensation increases and protections related to the use of artificial intelligence, the union announced Tuesday.
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December 05, 2023
A group of nurses accused a healthcare company of requiring them to sign illegal training repayment agreement provisions and suing them for breach of contract in Ohio state court, according to copies of the charges obtained by Law360 on Tuesday.
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December 05, 2023
A California federal judge will not allow Hilton Management LLC to immediately appeal his decision preserving claims that the hotel operator pocketed tips bound for banquet servers, ruling Tuesday that another court would not likely rule that service fees charged to customers weren't tips.
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December 05, 2023
Trader Joe's will stop grading employees on how much they smile on the job at its unionized locations in Minneapolis; Hadley, Massachusetts; and Oakland, California, pursuant to an agreement struck between the company and Trader Joe's United on Tuesday.
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December 05, 2023
The Sixth Circuit appeared to grapple Tuesday with a worker's push to revive his suit claiming Chrysler-maker FCA US LLC fired him because it saw him as disabled, with one judge seeking more detail from the worker and another pressing FCA on contradictory testimony.
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December 05, 2023
A pair of Del Monte Foods Inc. employees have asked a California federal judge to approve a $2 million settlement to class action wage and hour claims that they often worked through lunch without pay and worked up to 120 days in a row during the peak summer season.
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December 05, 2023
The NLRB's attempt to transfer a suit over its new joint employer rule to the D.C. Circuit is a departure from precedent, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups argued to a Texas federal judge, saying "red flags abound" with the agency's arguments.
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December 05, 2023
A California beverage delivery company violated federal labor law when a manager drunkenly called a worker and asked for help ousting a newly certified union, offering to promote the worker if he helped but threatening dismissal if he continued supporting the union, an NLRB judge ruled.
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December 05, 2023
A Second Circuit panel appeared unlikely on Tuesday to revive an embattled Broadway producer's antitrust lawsuit challenging his placement on the Actors' Equity Association's "do not work" list, saying it seems clear that the union acted appropriately after actors alleged wage violations and a toxic work environment.
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December 04, 2023
A New York federal judge denied a bid by the former owner of a closed Manhattan hotel to block a labor arbitration hearing on whether it must make an extra $6 million severance payment, saying there's no imminent threat to its constitutional rights because the award is a ways off.
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December 04, 2023
The president of a steel reinforcing installation company is facing a civil arrest warrant after failing to produce financial records for a union's audit in an unpaid benefits contributions case, with an Oregon federal judge saying the move was necessary because the official still hasn't complied with monetary sanctions.
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December 04, 2023
The embezzlement trial of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty wrapped up Monday with prosecutors restating their claims to a Philadelphia federal jury that Dougherty stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the union he was duty-bound to protect to pay for home improvements, concert tickets, expensive suits, and other luxuries.
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December 04, 2023
The unions representing Los Angeles public school employees asked a California federal court to toss a think tank's allegations that it was unlawfully denied access to information about when new employee orientations would take place, saying the group has no right to access that information.
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December 04, 2023
A pair of Massachusetts firefighters filed a proposed class action in federal court on Friday alleging the town of Brookline and its fire department improperly calculated base pay and overtime rates as far back as 2000.
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December 04, 2023
An Ohio state appeals court has ruled that the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority might not be done compensating three workers it fired and then reinstated following arbitration awards in the Amalgamated Transit Union's favor, reversing a lower court's refusal to consider the union's claim the workers are owed thousands more.
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December 04, 2023
A union pension fund asked an Illinois federal judge to toss a 67-year-old mechanic's allegations that he was wrongfully denied pension benefits, saying the fund's trustees were within their rights to deny his benefits when he took two multiyear breaks from accepting union-covered work.
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December 01, 2023
Following news of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's death at the age of 93, current and former high court justices paid public homage to her trailblazing career, devotion to the rule of law and illuminating charisma.
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December 01, 2023
BigLaw attorneys mentored by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday after a lengthy battle with dementia, say she'll be remembered as an incisive jurist who always put facts and practical considerations above abstract ideological commitments, as well as a deeply gracious and down-to-earth woman who never let her dedication to the law overshadow her zest for life.
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December 01, 2023
Univar Solutions USA Inc. told an Illinois federal judge that the company isn't liable for thousands in allegedly unpaid pension contributions, claiming the fund accepted a labor contract between the chemical giant and a Teamsters local that ended the business's obligation to pay.