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May 05, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Monday seemed poised for another split on letting the government share citizens' personally identifiable information with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, with a line of questioning that parroted their earlier division over pausing the trial court's injunction blocking DOGE from accessing that data.
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May 05, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge tossed a challenge to a Biden-era regulation that enhanced the organizing rights of seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas, saying Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor didn't act arbitrarily and capriciously when it issued the regulation.
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May 05, 2025
The Service Employees International Union asked the D.C. Circuit to examine the National Labor Relations Board's 2020 joint employer rule, renewing its fight against the employer-friendly board regulation that limited the criteria for finding shared liability.
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May 05, 2025
Immigrants rights groups called on the D.C. Circuit to pause the Trump administration's interim final rule requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution, after a lower court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.
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May 05, 2025
An Illinois chemical company is fighting to preserve allegations that a Teamsters local violated federal labor law through aggressive behavior during a strike the company claims was illegal, telling an Illinois federal judge that its amended complaint is strong enough to beat the union's dismissal motion.
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May 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of a shuttered New Jersey nursing home's challenge to the Third Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found the employer unlawfully slashed or ended COVID-19 bonuses for unionized workers.
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May 05, 2025
A company tapped to manage a hotel at the center of a $1.1 million withdrawal liability lawsuit between the City of San Jose and a UNITE HERE pension fund has reached a deal with the plan to exit the case, according to a California federal court filing.
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May 02, 2025
Amazon can't use an appeal of a National Labor Relations Board order to challenge the board's conclusion that so-called captive audience meetings are unlawful, prosecutors told the Eleventh Circuit on Friday, saying the conclusion isn't appealable by Amazon because it wasn't applied to Amazon.
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May 02, 2025
The Social Security Administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a Maryland federal judge's order that limits the Department of Government Efficiency's access to millions of Americans' data, in the first high court case involving the supposed fraud-busting actions of Elon Musk's group.
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May 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board's Manhattan office urged a New York federal judge to make a nonprofit that operates youth homeless shelters meet a Service Employees International Union affiliate at the bargaining table, claiming the nonprofit's alleged federal labor law violations have harmed workers.
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May 02, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel has paused a lower court order that restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while leaving intact other aspects of a ruling preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America.
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May 02, 2025
The Trump administration urged a New York federal judge to reject unions' challenge to the administration's decision to end $400 million in federal money for Columbia University, saying the unions have not shown they have a legal right to the money or that its loss will cause them or their members harm.
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May 02, 2025
Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries can keep their jobs for now, with a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issuing a temporary restraining order blocking a mass layoff scheduled for May 4 from going into effect.
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May 02, 2025
A California district court must stop federal agencies from moving ahead with President Donald Trump's directive to reorganize and terminate government workers, unions and other groups argued, calling for a temporary restraining order based on alleged harms from the administration's "radical restructuring."
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May 02, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential preliminary approval of a $12 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against Delta Air Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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May 01, 2025
Amazon's Constitution-based bid to block a National Labor Relations Board case cannot stand now that the company's argument has been rejected in Washington, D.C., federal court, a Teamsters unit told a California federal judge, pointing to the recent D.C. ruling that board members' job protections are constitutional.
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May 01, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board attorney dropped a trio of requests to overturn board precedents about workplace rules and proof of anti-union bias, saying the move to withdraw these efforts stems from the acting general counsel's walk back of some of his predecessor's memoranda.
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May 01, 2025
A Vermont software company is fighting the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it violated federal labor law by firing four workers after a salary spreadsheet circulated at the company, telling the D.C. Circuit that it didn't fire the workers for their legally protected workplace activism but for their hostility toward the company.
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May 01, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has voted to initially hear as a full court the government's challenge to an order blocking a probe of the Social Security Administration and keep the block in place, with a majority differentiating a similar case it recently left to a three-member panel sans injunction.
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May 01, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit not to reconsider its enforcement of a board decision requiring Macy's to pay locked out workers for "direct or foreseeable" harms, arguing the NLRB has the power to issue this remedy under federal labor law.
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April 30, 2025
The operator of the Lodi restaurant in Rockefeller Center violated federal labor law when a manager quoted workers' remarks in a chat about her "fake tears," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, while nixing other allegations, including that management presence illegally increased before a representation vote.
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April 30, 2025
Three cities, a county and a public employees' union asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday to block the government from rescinding $11 billion in public health grants doled out through pandemic-era laws, saying the grants weren't intended to stop when the pandemic stopped.
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April 30, 2025
The AFL-CIO has thrown its weight behind the National Labor Relations Board in the agency's opposition to a constitutional challenge filed by a Texas diner, telling the Fifth Circuit that the diner's "radical theory" rests on an argument the U.S. Supreme Court rejected nearly a century ago.
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April 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenged a bid to halt agencies from giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive systems, telling a D.C. federal judge that a group of unions didn't show personal information would be leaked.
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April 30, 2025
Sports betting company DraftKings Inc. told a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday that she was wrong to allow an MLB players organization's suit over unlicensed use of athletes' likenesses to proceed, arguing that the Third Circuit should weigh in on potentially novel legal issues that could quickly end the case.