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June 04, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission doesn't want staff attorneys to be able to seek state bar association guidance if they dispute the legality of an instruction, arguing in a fight with the FTC's union that seeking such guidance would gum up the gears of commission work.
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June 04, 2025
A California federal judge ordered the Trump administration Wednesday to explain why preparations for layoffs at the State Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development do not violate an injunction she issued last month, saying she needed more details about the agencies' plans to evaluate their compliance.
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June 04, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reopened a former flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines used allegations of misconduct as a pretext to fire her because she was in her 50s, saying a trial court erred in concluding that her case was preempted by federal labor law.
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June 04, 2025
A former Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney representing employers in wage-and-hour disputes and traditional labor matters has started as a partner at Fisher Phillips LLP in Seattle, the firm announced, and will remain focused on tackling labor and employment claims for his clients.
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June 04, 2025
A New York federal judge on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from eliminating Job Corps, saying the agency can't move ahead with shutting down the more than 60-year-old job training program without approval from Congress.
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June 04, 2025
A Service Employees International Union local unlawfully provided a Black former university employee with second-rate representation when he challenged his termination over a minor offense despite aggressively supporting white union members who engaged in more serious misconduct, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 03, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday sent a free speech lawsuit brought by immigration judges back to district court, reasoning a lower court judge must first determine if a federal law is working as intended with respect to claims that might otherwise be handled administratively.
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June 03, 2025
The Fifth Circuit must reject Nexstar's challenge to a union's certification representing workers at two television stations in Denver, the National Labor Relations Board argued, saying the company isn't following the agency standard used when an employer wants excluded workers added to a bargaining unit.
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June 03, 2025
A trio of veteran labor law experts is proposing to turn the National Labor Relations Board into a special labor court, aiming to slow the pace of policy shifts that they warn could get even more rapid if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down removal protections for board members.
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June 03, 2025
Two former members of an elevator operators union didn't support their claims that they were booted from the union for supporting a candidate that the local's president didn't support, the union said, asking a New York federal court to toss the case.
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June 03, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold a ruling that a trash hauler ducked its duty to bargain under a revived test of employers' contractual rights despite the court's well-established qualms with the union-friendly standard the board used the case to return to.
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June 03, 2025
The U.S. should work with partners at the World Trade Organization to apply further trade pressure on China, making sure the country is complying with rules and trading fairly, a Skadden partner nominated by President Donald Trump to represent the U.S. at the WTO told lawmakers Tuesday.
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June 03, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision concluding a trucking company in Virginia made an illegal threat to workers in response to a union organizing push, and also clarified what messages from employers are protected under federal labor law.
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June 03, 2025
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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June 02, 2025
A Washington federal judge on Monday blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from scrapping a union deal for Transportation Security Administration workers, saying the American Federation of Government Employees had a "strong" argument that DHS was retaliating for challenging the Trump administration's "attacks on federal workers."
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June 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has proposed trimming its budget by $14 million and eliminating close to 100 jobs, cuts that experts said will further slow the agency's sluggish case-handling pace if they hold.
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June 02, 2025
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld the convictions of a former Massachusetts state police union president and a Beacon Hill lobbyist who were found guilty of running a kickback scheme, but ordered new sentencing hearings for them after vacating some of the guilty findings.
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June 02, 2025
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to lift a California federal judge's order barring the implementation of layoffs and reorganization plans at various federal departments and agencies, arguing the order imposes nonexistent congressional limits on his presidential authority.
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June 02, 2025
A Teamsters local in Virginia violated federal labor law by not using an objective standard when referring drivers to work on film productions, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while also finding the union unlawfully refused to refer a worker who filed an unfair labor practice charge against it.
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June 02, 2025
A pickle manufacturer violated federal labor law by not bargaining with a union over the effects of the sale of its retail business and related layoffs, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, rejecting the company's argument that its only bargaining obligations were those in its labor contract.
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June 02, 2025
The Fifth Circuit must find that the National Labor Relations Board rightly concluded former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz illegally told a pro-union worker they could "go work for another company," the board argued, saying a reasonable employee would consider the remark as a threat.
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June 02, 2025
A longshoremen's union has lost its bid to disqualify an attorney from representing a former member in a wrongful termination suit in New Jersey federal court that alleges the union gave him bad advice that prevented him from properly fighting claims that led to his termination.
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June 02, 2025
An acute care hospital must reimburse a group of nurses it put on leave and offer reinstatement to one it fired because the hospital disciplined them in retaliation for their union-protected activities, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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May 30, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to lift a California federal judge's preliminary block of President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, handing a win to a coalition of unions, nonprofits and cities that argue the order exceeded the president's authority.
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May 30, 2025
Saying that June's circuit court calendars include important arguments in all practice areas would be hyperbolic — but just slightly. That's because significant showdowns are imminent involving appellate procedure principles, "click-to-cancel" rules, government procurement protests, judiciary employment protections and litigation risk insurance — as well as President Donald Trump's felony convictions and extraordinary deportation measures.