Employers that aim to keep politics out of the workplace in this contentious election year should be mindful of federal labor law, experts say, as it may limit their ability to stop workers from touting social causes, especially under President Joe Biden's National Labor Relations Board.
A security company will pay more than $286,000 to workers to settle an unfair labor practice charge, the National Labor Relations Board announced Friday, with the NLRB general counsel winning a lost bargaining opportunity remedy.
The National Labor Relations Board's decision loosening the standard for ordering employers to bargain based on labor law violations is likely to change how courts weigh granting injunctions requested by agency prosecutors, experts said, though it remains to be seen whether that shift will lead to more or fewer injunctions.
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Employers that aim to keep politics out of the workplace in this contentious election year should be mindful of federal labor law, experts say, as it may limit their ability to stop workers from touting social causes, especially under President Joe Biden's National Labor Relations Board.
A security company will pay more than $286,000 to workers to settle an unfair labor practice charge, the National Labor Relations Board announced Friday, with the NLRB general counsel winning a lost bargaining opportunity remedy.
The National Labor Relations Board's decision loosening the standard for ordering employers to bargain based on labor law violations is likely to change how courts weigh granting injunctions requested by agency prosecutors, experts said, though it remains to be seen whether that shift will lead to more or fewer injunctions.
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March 18, 2024
Dartmouth College is rejecting a bid by a Service Employees International Union local to bargain for a contract covering men's basketball players, a university spokesperson said Monday, signaling the school's plan to take to federal court its fight over whether collegiate athletes are statutory employees.
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March 18, 2024
Kaiser Permanente and the California Nurses Association defeated a fired nurse's lawsuit Monday, with the Ninth Circuit affirming that the nonprofit health care giant had valid reasons for firing her and that the union adequately represented her in her challenge to the termination.
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March 18, 2024
The House Education and Workforce Committee's chairwoman began an investigation into 12 unions over concerns about union officials' "fraud, embezzlement, and corruption," according to an announcement, calling for labor organizations to share documents with the committee.
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March 18, 2024
Digital content business Minute Media has purchased the publishing rights for Sports Illustrated, keeping alive a longtime brand that recently obliterated its newsroom with layoffs and shut down its betting platform, according to a Monday announcement.
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March 18, 2024
The Second Circuit won't revive a suit lodged by six Jewish professors at the City University of New York claiming that a state law unlawfully requires them to associate with a union that they allege holds antisemitic views, ruling that the provision passes muster under the U.S. Constitution.
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March 18, 2024
An Ohio insulation manufacturer is still making the union-represented staff of its Newark, Ohio, factory perform two jobs at once, the United Steelworkers have claimed in a new lawsuit against the company, seeking to enforce an arbitration award banning the business from mandating so-called double duty.
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March 18, 2024
ExxonMobil enforced an "unlawfully overbroad" rule governing the sharing of corporate information, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, applying a recent shift in board precedent to find that the company illegally fired a worker who posted an internal email on social media.
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March 15, 2024
A former American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees leader who faced charges that he skirted hiring rules wants a Pennsylvania federal court to find that a hearing officer overstepped his authority when he removed him from office and banned him from running for reelection last month.
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March 15, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board asked the Second Circuit to hold a radio station operator in contempt for violating a consent judgment enforcing a board decision, saying the station hasn't restored an unlawfully laid-off worker to a comparable position and has given union work to non-union workers.
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March 15, 2024
Starbucks unlawfully took down union material posted at a cafe in Maine and disciplined a worker who wrote "stop union busting" on a whiteboard, a National Labor Relations Board judge found while dismissing other allegations that the company violated federal labor law.
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March 15, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm says it won't take enforcement action against pension plans that return overpayments made by the nation's pension backstop agency during the COVID-19 pandemic, as Congress continues to probe an accidental $127 million overpayment to a Teamsters plan.
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March 15, 2024
The Second Circuit this week will consider whether to revive suits brought by two former Buffalo Public Schools administrators who say they were improperly fired from their positions for allegedly failing to secure a required certification. Here, Law360 explores these cases on the docket in New York.
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March 15, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments before the full Ninth Circuit in a case by Uber, Postmates and two drivers challenging California's worker classification law. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the state.
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March 14, 2024
An attorney for Welch Foods hatched a flock of duck-related metaphors Thursday during an oral argument over whether a male ex-worker's vulgar comments to a female coworker amounted to sexual harassment, and if an arbitrator had been wrong to reinstate the ex-worker despite the facts before her.
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March 14, 2024
The American Guild of Variety Artists has given up its role as the bargaining representative of Medieval Times workers, according to an announcement from Medieval Times Performers United, ending an organizing effort that began in California and New Jersey about two years ago.
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March 14, 2024
Dartmouth College must bargain with its men's basketball team after the National Labor Relations Board certified the players' recent landmark vote to unionize with the Service Employees International Union on Thursday, but a legal challenge looms.
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March 14, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official gave the green light to nurses at an Indiana nursing home to vote on representation by a Teamsters local, rejecting the facility's argument that the nurses are union-ineligible supervisors.
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March 14, 2024
The D.C. Circuit should uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a real estate management firm illegally fired a union supporter, the board argued, saying evidence doesn't back the company's claim that it lawfully terminated the worker because he hadn't been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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March 13, 2024
A group of farmworkers unions and nonprofits that advocate for farmworkers' interests have sued the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., federal court, saying the agency hasn't been complying with a 1980 regulation designed to improve its enforcement of farmworkers' legal protections.
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March 13, 2024
Volunteer ski patrol workers must be included in a proposed bargaining unit at a Colorado ski resort, an NLRB official found Wednesday, siding with the employer's bid to broaden the unit in a representation election with the Communications Worker of America.
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March 13, 2024
An Oregon federal court has scheduled an August hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of Kroger's planned $24.6 billion purchase of fellow grocery store giant Albertsons, a deal also under attack by state enforcers in Washington and Colorado.
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March 13, 2024
A production company that worked on the 2020 film "Roe v. Wade" must pay SAG-AFTRA about $382,000 in a dispute over actors' salaries and benefits, a California federal judge ruled, confirming an arbitration award and granting the union's attorney fee request.
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March 13, 2024
A Service Employees International Union local won its request to pause an election in which workers would choose which of two other security officers' unions would represent them, with the National Labor Relations Board indicating it may consider shifting board precedent for union intervention in representation votes.
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March 12, 2024
Trader Joe's violated federal labor law by threatening workers at a Kentucky store with the elimination of raises over their potential backing for an independent union, according to National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' complaint obtained by Law360 on Tuesday.
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March 12, 2024
Federal labor law doesn't preempt parts of a Service Employees International Union-backed ordinance increasing the hourly minimum wage to $25 for healthcare workers in a California city, a federal court ruled, while finding one section of the law could interfere with collective bargaining.