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April 09, 2024
A group of carpenters urged the Ninth Circuit to revive allegations that their union's retirement plan trustees played fast and loose with their savings, saying Tuesday that the trustees should face claims that their risky investment choices caused two retirement plans to plummet in value when the pandemic hit.
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April 09, 2024
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo hit back Tuesday at SpaceX, Amazon, Starbucks and other employers that have challenged the agency's constitutionality after it accused them of labor law violations, casting their arguments as attempts to slow board prosecutions and avoid obligations to workers.
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April 09, 2024
A Hilton hotel in Alaska is on the hook for federal labor law violations after renovating rooms in a way that changed housekeepers' work conditions without sufficiently looping in the employees' union, the D.C. Circuit held Tuesday, enforcing a National Labor Relations Board decision.
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April 09, 2024
Representation election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board rose by about 35% in the first half of the current fiscal year compared with fiscal year 2023, the agency announced Tuesday, attributing the boost to its Cemex decision, which increased the petitions filed by employers.
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April 09, 2024
Medieval Times has dropped its bid to revive trademark infringement claims against the labor union representing its entertainers, according to a filing in the Third Circuit.
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April 09, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered a Kentucky distillery to bargain with a Teamsters local after finding the distillery violated federal labor law by giving workers raises and free bourbon, among other job improvements, in trying to undermine support for an organizing campaign.
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April 09, 2024
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has recovered nearly $127 million mistakenly allotted to dead Teamsters pensioners in a bailout of multiemployer retirement plans approved during the pandemic, the federal government said.
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April 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor issued a memorandum Monday telling regional offices to seek make-whole remedies for workers "regardless of whether those employees are identified" in an unfair labor practice investigation involving illegal work rules or employment agreements.
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April 08, 2024
An Indiana federal judge correctly held that a Sysco distribution center in Indianapolis didn't have to arbitrate a dispute with a Teamsters local over workers' entitlement to early retirement benefits, the company has told the Seventh Circuit, asking the appellate court to uphold the judge's ruling.
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April 08, 2024
A civil marine contractor successfully convinced a California federal judge to toss an ex-worker's wage and hour proposed class action for lack of evidence, but the judge left the door open for the worker to refile the suit.
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April 08, 2024
The Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a meat processor in Nebraska illegally bargained in bad faith with a United Food and Commercial Workers affiliate, backing the board's broad remedies order that included reimbursing the union for negotiating expenses.
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April 08, 2024
A former GM worker told the Seventh Circuit it should intervene in his suit alleging his United Auto Workers local withdrew a grievance over his termination without telling him because he's Black, arguing a trial court judge ignored the appeals court's previous instructions when ending the suit.
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April 08, 2024
A Missouri federal judge tossed a black worker's suit Monday claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs subjected him to a racially hostile work environment and suspended him for complaining about it, ruling he didn't put forward proof that bias drove the agency's decision making.
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April 08, 2024
A school-choice nonprofit must offer to reinstate an employee who was fired after telling co-workers she believed her supervisor was racist, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, reconsidering the case after the board used the dispute to hold federal labor law protects worker advocacy for nonemployees.
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April 08, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has expanded the labor and employment department in its Dallas office after opening the office late last year, bringing on a former longtime Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner to serve as its founding L&E partner in the North Texas city, the firm announced on Monday.
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April 08, 2024
The California Fast Food Council has a mandate to reform the fast-food industry, and coming off its first meeting, employment law practitioners have questions about how it can improve upon the state's already robust regulations and whether it will be balanced. Here, Law360 explores three such questions for the council as it gets up and running.
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April 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's landmark decision in August that reworked the process for union representation elections has put more focus on unions' requests for voluntary recognition from employers, but experts said the changes have been more technical than drastic.
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April 05, 2024
Starbucks denied Friday that complying with federal labor law was "mission critical" to its business as it urged a Washington state judge to dismiss a shareholder suit accusing company leaders of union busting, which they say tanked Starbucks' reputation.
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April 05, 2024
Whole Foods should be found in violation of federal labor law for preventing workers from wearing Black Lives Matter apparel and buttons, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors contended Friday, saying an agency judge wrongly found the workers' adornment of the gear wasn't protected.
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April 05, 2024
A law preventing smoking in certain indoor workspaces violates New Jersey's Constitution by excluding casino workers, the United Auto Workers alleged Friday in a state court suit against the governor and state health department commissioner.
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April 05, 2024
The United Auto Workers petitioned the National Labor Relations Board on Friday to hold a union representation election among more than 5,000 workers across two Mercedes plants in Alabama, the union's second petition targeting Southern car plants amid an organizing blitz.
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April 05, 2024
The United Steelworkers have urged a Washington federal judge to enforce an arbitrator's order that Shell and its successor at a Washington refinery rehire a worker fired over an offensive meme, saying that the order jibes with a union contract and that the employers share liability for fulfilling it.
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April 05, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor joined a U.S. Department of Justice pledge to enforce civil rights and related federal laws in the use of automated tools like artificial intelligence.
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April 05, 2024
Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles implored the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering the rehire of more than 100 workers, telling the justices to create a uniform rule for evaluating evidence of anti-union bias.
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April 05, 2024
California cannabis delivery company Eaze Technologies and its subsidiary Stachs LLC face a possible work stoppage just ahead of the April 20 weekend, after the union representing drivers announced they have rejected the companies' contract proposal and secured strike authorization from its members.