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June 26, 2026
A California federal judge on Friday trimmed a proposed class action against an electrical construction company, dismissing a former worker's overtime, meal and rest break claims, but allowing his minimum wage claim based on alleged off-the-clock work and unlawful rounding to proceed.
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June 26, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor sued an employee benefit trust services company in Texas federal court, alleging the company and its executives breached fiduciary duties of prudence and loyalty by failing to safeguard over $5 billion in employee retirement assets.
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June 26, 2026
Two Michigan masonry contractors and their owners have been hit with federal lawsuits accusing them of failing to pay required union fringe benefit contributions, with one company allegedly owing more than $194,000 after an audit.
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June 26, 2026
A group that advocates against requiring workers to join unions has filed 36 unfair labor practice charges on behalf of California caregivers, accusing several union locals of taking dues from the workers without their permission and ignoring their requests to opt out of union membership.
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June 26, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a class certification hearing in a wage and hour suit against Little Caesars. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 26, 2026
A Michigan crane rental company must pay about $43,000 to a group of union benefit funds, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, agreeing with the funds that the company didn't uphold the contribution obligations outlined in its collective bargaining agreement and a 2018 memorandum of understanding.
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June 26, 2026
This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider whether to give preliminary approval to a $162 million settlement resolving a proposed class and collective action that accused a New York Medicaid program contractor of not paying 200,000 personal assistants accurately and on time.
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June 26, 2026
The House Education and Workforce Committee has approved a bill that would direct the government to research how artificial intelligence is being used in the workplace, in an effort to better understand how the technology could transform the future of work.
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June 25, 2026
The United Auto Workers president ended a union official's oversight of UAW's Stellantis department in retaliation for the official's refusal to do favors for him, the monitor appointed to oversee the union in the wake of a corruption scandal said Thursday in his latest status report, filed in Michigan federal court.
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June 25, 2026
Amazon appears to have engineered a test of one of the Biden National Labor Relations Board's signature policies by provoking a decision by an agency judge this week ordering the company to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco facility.
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June 25, 2026
New York City has moved to bar a food delivery app from operating in the city unless it begins paying its workers the legally required minimum wage, after the company's own reports showed it paid workers as little as $1.82 per hour.
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June 25, 2026
A waste management company violated federal labor law by interrogating, disciplining and firing employees after the workers launched a union organizing campaign with a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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June 25, 2026
The Seventh Circuit declined to revive a transgender bus driver's suit claiming the Chicago Transit Authority fired him due to his gender identity, ruling he failed to show the decision was driven by prejudice rather than claims that he took medical leave that wasn't approved.
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June 25, 2026
An Iowa federal judge has ordered Kraft Heinz Co. to submit a pension eligibility grievance to arbitration, finding the company's collective bargaining agreement requires it to arbitrate the dispute and rejecting its bid to block the proceedings.
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June 24, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a suit from two flight attendants claiming they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, saying they demonstrated a plausible dispute about whether Alaska terminated them based on their religious beliefs.
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June 24, 2026
A beverage-bottling company should be allowed to ban workers from wearing union stickers on the job because the stickers could fall off and contaminate the product, the company argued, asking the Third Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board order that required the company to tolerate the stickers.
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June 24, 2026
The operator of Seattle's Space Needle has asked a Washington federal court to vacate an arbitration award ordering it to reinstate a fired employee, claiming the award fails to "draw its essence" from the operator's agreement with a UNITE HERE local and the arbitrator who issued it overstepped his authority.
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June 24, 2026
Federal labor law required a cargo ship operator to negotiate over the presence of cameras on its new ships, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, dinging the company for refusing to engage in effects bargaining with the International Organization of Masters Mates & Pilots.
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June 24, 2026
A defense contractor lodged a lawsuit seeking to collect $4.78 million from the U.S. Air Force, alleging that the agency failed to properly calculate updated labor rates into its solicitation for support services at a base in Florida.
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June 24, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed what his administration called a first-of-its-kind executive order directing city agencies to develop heat-safety protections for workers who face dangerous temperatures on the job, his office announced.
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June 24, 2026
An industrial cleaning company did not violate federal labor law when it fired a worker who refused to take a drug test without a union representative present, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, finding that the union waived the worker's right to have a representative accompany him.
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June 24, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has reversed a National Labor Relations Board decision finding that Starbucks unlawfully fired a worker for supporting a unionization effort at the store, saying the decision rested on insufficient evidence that the coffee giant acted out of anti-union animus.
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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit rejected petitions Tuesday from the National Labor Relations Board and a Teamsters local to rehear a panel decision finding that the agency erred by failing to use the rulemaking process when it adopted a new standard for issuing bargaining orders against employers.
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June 23, 2026
Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.
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June 23, 2026
A software company and its subsidiary urged the National Labor Relations Board to overturn an agency judge's ruling that they illegally fired an employee for sharing a rumor about impending layoffs that turned out to be false, arguing the judge erred by finding that the former worker did not act with malice.