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May 16, 2025
A Chicagoland medical center network that serves the Hispanic community failed to sufficiently loop in its workers' union after the IRS identified potential issues with four workers' Social Security numbers, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, holding the employer responsible for a labor law violation.
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May 16, 2025
National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel William Cowen instructed regional officials on Friday to exercise more discretion over the remedies they pursue when seeking to settle cases, walking back instructions from his predecessor to seek maximum remedies in settlements.
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May 16, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel grappled Friday with the extent of the president's power to fire federal officials with the U.S. Supreme Court's views in flux, with two judges straining to pin the government's attorney down on what divides agencies Congress can insulate and those it can't.
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May 16, 2025
The Trump administration's immigration policies could lead to changes in how the National Labor Relations Board investigates and prosecutes cases that involve immigrant workers, and could make it less likely that those workers participate in agency proceedings, experts said.
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May 16, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an appeal of a federal judge's decision dismissing a discrimination lawsuit brought by New York court interpreters who claim they are systematically paid less than a federal benchmark because they are foreign born. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 16, 2025
A dishwasher equipment company violated federal labor law by threatening the elimination of a promised wage hike if workers unionized with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while dismissing allegations about flyer language and a threat end to profit sharing.
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May 16, 2025
In the coming two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the California Supreme Court regarding whether federal law preempts state statutes involving arbitration fees. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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May 15, 2025
Two former captains and a statewide union sued a Southwest Colorado fire district and its chief Thursday for allegedly stopping a union campaign in its tracks by retaliating against organizers, claiming the chief fired the captains after they organized a vote showing nearly three-quarters of workers backed unionization.
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May 15, 2025
A California federal judge must greenlight a nationwide injunction to stop multiple federal agencies from moving ahead with implementing reorganization and mass termination plans linked to an executive order, a coalition of unions and groups argued, making their request on the heels of a temporary restraining order.
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May 15, 2025
A grocery worker suing Kroger and Albertsons over an alleged no-poach agreement is pushing back on the companies' claim the litigation is preempted by federal labor law, telling the Colorado federal judge hearing the case that antitrust laws have not been displaced by labor law, especially in labor market collusion.
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May 15, 2025
A Miami Beach hotel didn't violate federal labor law by banning workers from contacting hotel guests about workplace grievances, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, holding that the ban is justified and does not explicitly restrict union activity.
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May 15, 2025
The writing may be on the wall for two fired labor officials' defenses of orders restoring them to work as they make their cases Friday to three D.C. Circuit judges who have already weighed in on their joint test of the president's power to remove executive appointees.
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May 15, 2025
A farmworkers' union said that the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 H-2A prevailing wage regulations cannot stand and could leave farmworkers without prevailing wage protections, urging a Washington federal court to grant the union a partial win.
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May 15, 2025
A Teamsters local asked the D.C. Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board decision concluding a waste transportation company illegally refused to bargain about its decision to place monitoring cameras in trucks, arguing the unilateral installation is unlawful under differing standards from the NLRB and court.
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May 15, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel expressed skepticism Thursday that it had any role in deciding two Starbucks workers' challenge to job protections for National Labor Relations Board members now that the agency agrees with the baristas' argument.
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May 15, 2025
Four local governments and a public sector union must go to the Court of Federal Claims if they want to accuse the Trump administration of improperly canceling public health grants issued during the pandemic, the administration told a Washington, D.C., federal judge, in fighting their injunction bid.
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May 14, 2025
Unions representing employees in the nursing, education, mining and manufacturing industries on Wednesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C., federal court over efforts to gut an agency tasked with protecting workers' health and safety.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has no reason to lift a ban on the Department of Government Efficiency accessing Social Security data, four unions argued in an amicus brief, backing two other unions in their bid to protect the injunction from the Trump administration's bid to defeat it.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. State Department can't carry out President Donald Trump's executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding the American Foreign Service Association is likely to show the directive went beyond the president's powers.
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May 14, 2025
General Motors and United Auto Workers failed to step in after a Black employee complained that a white colleague began stalking her after she started dating her ex-boyfriend and instead forced the Black worker to move departments, a lawsuit filed in New York federal court said.
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May 14, 2025
Two trade groups for apartment owners requested that federal officials eliminate COVID-19-era eviction restrictions and a framework for accepting emotional support animals, as well as undo appliance efficiency standards, union wage rates and other policies the groups say are holding back multifamily development.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. Postal Service violated federal labor law by withholding disciplinary records that a union needed to resolve a grievance at a facility in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, ordering the Postal Service to hand over the records within two weeks.
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May 14, 2025
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and one of its locals urged an Alaska federal court to toss a pilot's bid to send his claims of unjust firing in front of a commercial airline board for arbitration purposes, saying the Railway Labor Act doesn't give airline employees that option.
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May 14, 2025
Employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips announced Tuesday the opening of a new six-attorney office in Birmingham, Alabama, its second office opening this month.
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May 14, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit must uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the board lacked jurisdiction over a Florida Catholic university, the NLRB argued, saying the university met an analysis under agency precedent for deciding whether a school is a religious institution exempt from federal labor law.