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September 02, 2026
The Second Circuit faulted the test the National Labor Relations Board applies to neutral dress codes that restrict workers' displays of union insignia, tossing Wednesday a ruling that Starbucks illegally barred workers at a Manhattan shop from wearing pro-union shirts.
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September 02, 2026
New Jersey's attorney general has asked a federal court for leave to file a motion for expedited discovery in a federal antitrust suit claiming that Amazon has unlawfully maintained its dominant buying power in the delivery driver services market, claiming there is an "immediate need" for discovery in the case.
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September 01, 2026
Starbucks Corp. has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss Starbucks Workers United's request for permission to maintain its current name and logo, saying an Iowa federal judge should decide whether the union's name and logo infringe Starbucks' copyrights.
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September 01, 2026
A Colorado federal judge Tuesday following oral arguments dismissed a complaint from DirecTV seeking to vacate an arbitration award over layoffs of union technicians after the court found that its "narrow" ability to review arbitration decisions bars the litigation.
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September 01, 2026
The American Federation of Teachers is seeking to enter a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's bid to obtain a database containing information on 17 million commercial driver's license holders, telling a Virginia federal court Tuesday that the 24 states bringing the suit don't adequately represent the interests of the union.
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September 01, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board urged the full D.C. Circuit on Tuesday to rethink a recent panel decision limiting the court's regard for the agency's legal positions in a vigorous defense of the board's policymaking power after the U.S. Supreme Court scrapped a sweeping deference doctrine.
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September 01, 2026
The Tenth Circuit reversed a district court ruling exempting aviation customer service workers from arbitration, finding Tuesday that the lower court misread the Supreme Court's framework for determining when workers fall outside the Federal Arbitration Act by focusing on individuals rather than their job class as a whole.
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September 01, 2026
An International Longshoremen's Association local has urged the Third Circuit to overturn a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the union unlawfully barred a worker from jobs after he engaged in dissident union activity, arguing that it didn't refuse to refer the worker or cause him to stop seeking work.
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August 31, 2026
A Teamsters local that represents dozens of school bus monitors and drivers in Pickerington, Ohio, can't include the employee who punishes students who act out on the bus, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, saying the student discipline coordinator's role is too different from the drivers' and monitors'.
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August 31, 2026
An International Longshoremen's Association local violated federal labor law by failing to notify a member of the internal charges filed against him and using "questionable evidence" to make its case, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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August 31, 2026
Seven dispatchers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority for Erie, Pennsylvania, are not "supervisors" exempt from membership in the authority's labor union, since their roles in scheduling overtime or reporting rule infractions were constrained by their contract and only occasionally crossed the line into supervision, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.
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August 31, 2026
This summer, hundreds of New York City public defenders met their managers at the bargaining table armed with the same strategies their union peers used a year ago, though they found a changed financial and political landscape.
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August 31, 2026
Microsoft did not violate federal labor law by firing two workers who organized a protest of the war in Gaza at the company's Washington headquarters because the event didn't have a clear enough tie to their work, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in a newly released advice memo.
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August 31, 2026
A food services contractor at a U.S. Army base in Washington state violated federal labor law by firing a worker who requested a union representative after her manager angrily called her into a meeting, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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August 31, 2026
Amazon has urged a New York federal court to toss the remaining claims in a lawsuit alleging the company illegally called the police on labor demonstrations after its workers' union affiliated with the Teamsters, arguing that the allegations failed to demonstrate the area the protestors were occupying was public property.
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August 31, 2026
A Michigan federal court has granted final approval of a nearly $3.8 million settlement resolving overtime claims brought by current and former hourly production employees at Fiat Chrysler's U.S. facilities, with $1.26 million of that amount going to attorney fees.
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August 28, 2026
The federal government Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a finding that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management wrongfully fired 25,000 probationary workers shortly after President Donald Trump took office, arguing that the OPM was operating well within its statutory authority, the district court lacked jurisdiction, and the workers are "simply out of luck."
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August 28, 2026
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey has been circumspect about her policy priorities as she focuses on cutting a hefty case backlog she inherited, but a new memo laying out precedents she's targeting for change aligns with practitioners' expectations for the Republican chief prosecutor.
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August 28, 2026
A West Virginia convenience store pushed out a deli clerk after she requested a coworker's opinion about whether a pay offer was fair, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, holding Go-Mart Inc. responsible for violating the National Labor Relations Act.
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August 28, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official on Friday rejected a Teamsters local's bid to add a student discipline coordinator to an existing bargaining unit at an Ohio student transportation company, ruling that the coordinator doesn't share a sufficient community of interest with the workers in the unit.
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August 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board upheld an agency judge's decision finding that an Illinois construction equipment company lawfully fired a field service technician one day before his probationary period ended, rejecting claims that the company's "continued investment" in his training showed the termination was pretextual.
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August 28, 2026
A Nevada waste-disposal service violated federal labor law by snubbing the union that its drivers brought in two years ago in various ways, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company owed the Teamsters local recognition, information, implementation of the union contract and bargaining over workplace decisions.
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August 28, 2026
This week the Second Circuit will consider the United Auto Workers' challenge to a trial court decision that declined to enforce an arbitration award requiring Ford to rehire a pipefitter it fired just days after reinstating him at an arbitrator's direction. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in the Empire State.
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August 28, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against furniture retailer Wayfair. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 27, 2026
A group of pilots is doing its best to fulfill Hawaiian Airlines' discovery request in a legal dispute over COVID-19 vaccine mandate exemptions, the pilots told a Hawaii federal judge, asking him not to sanction them for taking time to redact and format a Telegram group chat.