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March 29, 2024
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether to issue sanctions against a clothing store for not responding to discovery requests in a lawsuit brought by a former sales associate who claims she was unlawfully denied overtime and minimum wage.
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March 28, 2024
A former New York electrical worker and union rep can't sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for firing him after a return-to-work drug test found evidence of marijuana use, as the union never raised the alarm about such drug tests before, a New York federal judge has ruled.
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March 28, 2024
A split D.C. Circuit panel on Thursday enforced a National Labor Relations Board order finding Starbucks violated federal labor law by barring a worker from passing out union pins, marking the first time a federal appeals court has weighed in on a board decision against the coffee giant.
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March 28, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a former Federal Bureau of Prisons contractor and a Michigan halfway house to pay around $112,000 to two fired workers, supporting the agency's conclusion that the entities are liable for back pay.
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March 28, 2024
Deepfakes have ceased to live solely in the world of science fiction, and their proliferation has already presented disturbing examples of a distorted reality — from phony robocalls by politicians to bogus celebrity nudes.
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March 28, 2024
The AFL-CIO backed the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday in Starbucks' case at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to unify the standards courts apply to the agency's injunction bids, saying the courts all use effectively the same test, even if some apply more or different factors than others.
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March 28, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by constructively discharging a former barista in Buffalo, New York, who is now a union spokesperson, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, while dismissing other unfair labor practice allegations against the coffee chain involving cut hours and failure to negotiate over discipline.
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March 28, 2024
Days before a $20 hourly minimum wage for California fast-food workers takes effect, a last-minute law containing exemptions brings relief but also concerns to employers, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores A.B. 610.
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March 28, 2024
Union federation AFL-CIO announced it has named an experienced attorney who spent nearly 25 years working on government and labor movement matters, including a stint as general counsel with the Communications Workers of America, as its new director of advocacy.
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March 28, 2024
Amazon can't force a group of pro-union employees to reveal what they've told National Labor Relations Board prosecutors during investigations into the company's union response, an NLRB judge ruled, trimming a series of subpoenas issued to the workers.
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March 27, 2024
Unionized Sega of America workers backed the ratification of their first contract with the video game giant, according to an announcement from the union Wednesday, saying the parties agreed to raises, benefits and other protections for workers.
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March 27, 2024
The D.C. Circuit upheld an NLRB ruling that a Cadillac dealer illegally fired a worker even though the board changed the applicable precedent during the appeal, saying Wednesday that the long-running case appears to shake out the same under either version of the shifting standard for worker outbursts.
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March 27, 2024
A Buffalo, New York-area hospital network lost its bid to quash two subpoenas in a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action Wednesday, with a New York federal judge ruling that the network challenged the subpoenas to two of its advisers in the wrong court.
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March 27, 2024
A group of Black workers can't bring race bias allegations against a union, a federal international trade judge concluded, dismissing a proposed class action complaint that claimed the union had a "long history of discrimination" against Black people.
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March 27, 2024
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday that he is directing state agencies to consider including project labor agreements — pre-hiring collective bargaining agreements that can cover multiple contractors and labor unions — in all major capital projects.
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March 27, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor is pushing to expand available remedies for workers whose employers discipline them under unlawfully overbroad work rules, prompting concerns from employers that the initiative could result in a complicated process for determining who is entitled to the relief.
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March 27, 2024
Several construction groups said the U.S. Department of Labor is illegally trying to expand the reach of the Davis-Bacon Act with its final rule regulating prevailing wages, urging a Texas federal court to bring the rule to a screeching halt.
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March 27, 2024
A dispute between The Belt Railway Co. of Chicago and a rail workers union over operations changes must head to arbitration, an Illinois federal judge ruled, siding with the carrier's claims that a potential strike could cause it harm.
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March 27, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors asked a New York federal judge to hold two meatpacking companies in contempt of court for refusing to fully comply with a subpoena in a work transfer dispute, saying their stated reason for withholding certain documents is not valid.
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March 27, 2024
A House committee subpoenaed the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. as part of its probe into a $127 million overpayment to Teamsters pensioners who had already died, distributed as part of a multibillion-dollar bailout of multiemployer funds Congress approved during the pandemic.
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March 27, 2024
A western Massachusetts cannabis retailer has asked a state court to reinstate an employee's petition to decertify a budding local of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which was dismissed by a state labor board following a settlement of separate prohibited practices complaints.
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March 26, 2024
Alcoa USA Corp. violated its collectively bargained obligations when it unilaterally cut off company-provided life insurance benefits, but was within its rights to pay retirees to waive their claims to benefits, an Indiana federal judge ruled.
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March 26, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board may be joining forces to clarify how protections for workers who get heated during union activity square with anti-discrimination law, and experts said specific examples on this interplay are at the top of their wish list.
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March 26, 2024
Benefits funds affiliated with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades can't move ahead with their claims that a turf installer didn't pay contributions, a California federal judge ruled, saying the funds didn't include the calculation for payment in their allegations.
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March 26, 2024
Mercedes-Benz has fired at least three workers for openly backing the United Auto Workers' organizing campaign at an Alabama plant, the union claimed Tuesday in a National Labor Relations Board charge.