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April 02, 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration on Tuesday finalized a rule requiring freight trains to be operated with at least two people, forging ahead with a mandate long supported by rail workers' unions and safety advocates, but one that major rail carriers have decried as unnecessary and costly.
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April 02, 2024
A worker requested attorney fees and costs as a make-whole remedy in an unfair labor practice case in which the NLRB's general counsel pushed for broadened relief in work rule disputes, arguing that he had to hire private counsel in his challenge to a mortgage lender's employment agreement.
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April 02, 2024
A former Harvard Business School professor who was denied tenure after his angry emails to a restaurant went viral was among the winners from a slate of recent Massachusetts state court decisions, which also addressed claims about "forever chemicals" in firefighting gear and a popular gym shut down during the pandemic.
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April 02, 2024
A Michigan federal judge stood firm on his decision to send a roughly $40 million dispute between a demolition company and a union pension fund back to an arbitrator, rejecting the company's bid for him to reconsider his opinion.
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April 02, 2024
A California state lawmaker has introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that would give workers the right to ignore emails, text messages and phone calls from their employers after they clock out.
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April 02, 2024
A group of labor law professors defended the National Labor Relations Board's ability to dodge certain injunction requirements placed on private parties in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, recommending the justices side with the agency over Starbucks in a dispute about how the NLRB obtains injunctions.
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April 02, 2024
A plastics manufacturer called on the Third Circuit to uphold an arbitration award that denied reinstatement to a fired worker in Delaware, contending that the arbitrator correctly used an evidentiary doctrine to block a rehire remedy because the company found out the worker was intoxicated after his termination.
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April 02, 2024
One of the attorneys representing a proposed class of Philadelphia Uber drivers in their wage suit against the company left the Steel City's Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP for the new New Jersey office of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, his co-counsel in the ride-hailing case.
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April 01, 2024
Workers United and a fired Starbucks employee must comply with subpoenas seeking information about workers' sentiments toward the union at a Long Island cafe following the worker's termination, a New York magistrate judge ruled, finding no confidentiality concerns.
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April 01, 2024
A bankrupt coal company's affiliates have dodged claims that they owe $6.5 billion to a union pension plan, with a Washington, D.C., federal judge holding that the plan's trustees lacked standing to sue under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because one trustee wasn't properly appointed.
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April 01, 2024
Conservative media personality Steven Crowder was hit with a National Labor Relations Board charge alleging he's leaning on an illegal separation agreement in a suit to stop an ex-producer from speaking out about him.
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April 01, 2024
A Christian postal worker who claimed he was unlawfully punished for seeking Sundays off should lose his religious bias case under the standard the U.S. Supreme Court set when it revived his case in 2023, a letter carriers union told a Pennsylvania federal judge.
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April 01, 2024
Carlton Fields PA has added a labor and employment attorney from Stearns Weaver Miller as of counsel in its Tampa office, the firm announced Monday.
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April 01, 2024
Workers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are entitled to perform certain work at a port terminal in Seattle, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, rejecting the International Association of Machinists' bid for its members to take on the work.
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April 01, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official denied a petition from an Office and Professional Employees International Union affiliate to hold an election to represent workers at a consulting firm, saying the characteristics of workers who would be included and excluded from the proposed bargaining unit aren't clearly delineated.
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April 01, 2024
The president of UNITE HERE has stepped down after 11 years of leading a union that represents 300,000 workers, the union announced Monday.
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April 01, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has hired a more than 20-year veteran of the National Association of Home Builders' in-house legal department to bolster its expertise counseling employers on construction liability, regulatory compliance and related matters, the firm recently announced.
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April 01, 2024
A New Jersey city's lawsuit demanding clarity over whether state or federal law governs off-duty pot use for cops could help cannabis and employment lawyers navigate a growing battle between workers' rights and workplace safety.
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March 29, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge dismissed defamation and trade libel allegations by nursing home operators against a union and its affiliates in light of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, saying the unions' statements at the center of the claims are connected to a labor dispute.
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March 29, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's representation election process remains analog in 2024 despite a series of pushes to lift a long-standing legislative bar on pursuing electronic voting. Here, Law360 explores the debate over e-voting at the NLRB.
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March 29, 2024
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a final rule Friday broadening workers' right to choose who represents them during safety inspections, overwriting an old standard that required the representative to be a fellow employee and opening the door for outside representatives such as those from unions.
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March 29, 2024
Amazon violated federal labor law by maintaining a policy that restricted off-duty workers' access to a Kentucky facility, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Friday, saying the rule gave the company too much discretion over access and rejecting the company's claim that it quickly walked back the rule.
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March 29, 2024
The Fifth Circuit shouldn't revive staffing companies' First Amendment claim challenging a memo from the National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor arguing that so-called captive audience meetings are illegal, the lead agency official argued, saying district courts lack jurisdiction to review the allegations over her guidance.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming two weeks, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a pair of cases involving the ministerial exception. Here's a look at those cases and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 29, 2024
The Service Employees International Union local that recently won a landmark election to represent the Dartmouth College men's basketball team defended a National Labor Relations Board official's decision to greenlight the election, saying the case fell within her jurisdiction under federal labor law's "strikingly" broad definition of employee.