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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.
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September 03, 2024
California is forging ahead with plans to test and deploy more heavy-duty autonomous trucks, at the same time that state lawmakers are seeking to ban autonomous trucks from operating without a human driver behind the wheel.
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September 03, 2024
Workers at a Marathon terminal in California can vote on whether they want the United Steelworkers to represent them, an NLRB regional director determined, while rejecting the union's request for an election to let the employees join an existing bargaining unit.
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September 03, 2024
Voters this fall will consider ballot questions asking them to pass laws raising the minimum wage and expanding rights to sick leave and collective bargaining, potentially kicking off litigation that will give courts a chance to weigh in.
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August 30, 2024
Appeals courts have awakened from summertime slumber and crammed their early autumn calendars with arguments of national significance, which Law360 previews in this edition of Wheeling & Appealing. We're also recapping August's top appellate decisions, exploring new polling about U.S. Supreme Court opinions and testing your knowledge of Fifth Circuit history.
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August 30, 2024
The Teamsters have launched an ambitious organizing campaign at Amazon's premiere air cargo facility in Kentucky, hoping to draw on the experience of representing thousands of UPS workers in the state to notch a win that experts said could be the breakthrough the union has been seeking at the e-commerce giant.
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August 30, 2024
A worker's bid to decertify a union representing maintenance employees at Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas can't proceed, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, finding the petition should be dismissed because the board recently issued a bargaining order.
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August 30, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reversed on Friday part of a National Labor Relations Board ruling that UPS illegally refused to provide information to the Teamsters, directing the board to analyze the company's argument that the parties' contract precluded the union's request for workers' phone numbers.
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August 30, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Nexstar Media Inc. to bargain with its workers' newly installed union, ruling that the media conglomerate violated federal labor law by refusing to work with a Communications Workers of America affiliate at its Rochester, New York, television station.
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August 30, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider attempts from the operators of Four Seasons Hotel New York to toss a class action that claims the hotel violated state and federal law by furloughing them without notice.
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August 30, 2024
As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 years old this Labor Day, attorneys reflecting on five decades of development of the federal employee benefits law see a complex path ahead for both litigation and policy. Here are three key takeaways from top attorneys on what’s next for ERISA on its golden anniversary.
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August 30, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5.2 million deal in a wage and hour class action against Walmart alleging the retail giant failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 health screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 30, 2024
A Michigan nursing home that became critically understaffed when COVID-19 hit could offer temporary hazard pay and hire nonunion temporary workers without bargaining with its workers' union because of the emergency circumstances, but it needed to bargain over the effects of hiring the temps, the Sixth Circuit held.
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August 30, 2024
An agency judge rightly cleared Starbucks of claims that the company unlawfully denied an Illinois employee's bids to transfer stores, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, pointing to evidence that the company blocked one request because of the worker's availability.
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August 29, 2024
A Michigan federal court should not "handcuff" the National Labor Relations Board by greenlighting an injunction to stop unfair labor practice proceedings against an auto parts maker, the board contended, fighting back against claims that there are constitutional concerns with the agency.
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August 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon's challenge to the results of a union's election victory at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse, saying Thursday the company did not present strong enough evidence that the union's conduct interfered with workers' choice in the election.
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August 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board said it's teaming up with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate mergers that present competition concerns for workers.
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August 29, 2024
The NFL and Denver Broncos said a former player's revised discrimination lawsuit can't avoid arbitration because claims that he was unfairly fined more than $532,000 for using prescribed THC to treat medical conditions still fall under a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 29, 2024
Starbucks unlawfully texted a worker with questions about union organizing at a Minneapolis cafe, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, nixing the coffee giant's argument that such queries via text message are "inherently less coercive."
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August 29, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission is sparring with Kroger over where, and when, to handle the grocery giant's constitutional counterattack to the FTC's merger challenge, with the agency teeing up a bid to move the company's Ohio federal court suit to Oregon, where it's defending the proposed Albertsons purchase.
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August 29, 2024
A Puerto Rico beer company asked the D.C. Circuit Thursday to reverse a National Labor Relations Board decision finding it unlawfully declared impasse during bargaining and placed a union president on long-term leave, saying the board improperly cited a settlement of an unrelated case as evidence of antiunion sentiment.
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August 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday announced the appointment of an assistant general counsel and e-litigation chief as the agency's first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer.
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August 29, 2024
A Starbucks manager at a Tennessee cafe illegally told a worker that employees became untrustworthy after union organizing efforts sprang up, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying a reasonable employee would consider the remarks a threat of retaliation.
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August 28, 2024
A Teamsters local can't take its challenges about a monthly early retirement benefit to arbitration, a Michigan federal judge determined Wednesday, finding that the grievance process under a collective bargaining agreement doesn't cover the dispute.
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August 28, 2024
The Washington Attorney General's Office told a state court Wednesday that Kroger refuses to commit to sticking with the current terms of its divestiture package in its merger with Albertsons, which the state fears would unfairly "move the goalposts" less than three weeks before a trial on the state's merger challenge kicks off.