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April 05, 2024
A finance firm set up for the nation's largest firefighters' union can't escape a whistleblower retaliation claim from the investment adviser it fired after he reported concerns to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a Boston federal judge has ruled.
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April 05, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a dental hygienist's challenge to a New York federal judge's decision to order a new trial over sexual harassment claims against her former employer that resulted in a jury awarding her $1 in damages. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 05, 2024
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired an employment partner from Dorsey & Whitney LLP with 20 years of experience navigating companies through labor, employment and immigration matters.
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April 04, 2024
The former operator of a La-Z-Boy store in Indiana agreed to pay nearly $300,000 and issue apology letters in an unfair labor practice proceeding linked to the termination of two employees who spoke up about working conditions, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by Law360 on Thursday.
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April 04, 2024
A challenge to an Illinois law mandating that many temporary workers receive equivalent benefits to long-term employees has been stayed, as a federal court allowed the state to appeal an order preliminarily blocking the statute.
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April 04, 2024
An attorney for Amazon union reformers seeking to force officer elections slammed the current leadership Thursday for trying to blow up their New York federal court deal to hold a vote this summer, calling "absurd" a new argument that the deal disenfranchises members.
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April 04, 2024
A group of shipping companies is liable for federal labor law violations as a single employer, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the companies illegally recognized the Seafarers International Union and told workers to join the union as a condition of employment.
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April 04, 2024
An Ohio-based baking company illegally fired a driver after he refused to complete a delivery that he said could have violated U.S. Department of Transportation regulations and his union failed to fairly represent him, the worker said in a suit filed Thursday in federal court.
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April 04, 2024
The New York City Council and a union representing legislative employees reached a tentative agreement on their first-ever labor contract, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced.
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April 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's suggestion that a California federal court should keep a transferred constitutional challenge from SpaceX even after the Fifth Circuit reversed the transfer was an act of "zealous advocacy" for itself, the board said Wednesday, responding to urgent questions from the appeals panel.
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April 03, 2024
Amazon violated federal labor law by dinging workers' time-off balances in retaliation for them going on strike at a facility in Shakopee, Minnesota, the National Labor Relations Board's Minneapolis regional director alleged.
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April 03, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors accused Trader Joe's of violating federal labor law by threatening and interrogating workers in the midst of an organizing drive at a California store, according to a complaint obtained by Law360 on Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
A pair of construction industry trade groups urged a Texas federal court to preserve their challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor rule that revises prevailing wage calculations for federally funded projects, arguing that the rule injures both them and the firms they represent.
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April 03, 2024
A Third Circuit judge on Wednesday wondered whether a former Philadelphia mayor's order requiring contractors to pay dues to "city-approved" unions was now moot, given the new administration's assurances that it won't be implemented, as contractors urged the court to find that the scrapped rule should be banned by law.
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April 03, 2024
Contractors performing construction, alteration or repair work on government buildings should have to give the U.S. Department of Labor more detailed information about the deductions they take from workers' wages, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general told the agency in a letter publicized Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
A theatrical production company can't assert confidentiality to duck information requests from Actors' Equity Association, the National Labor Relations Board told the Second Circuit, urging it to affirm a board decision finding that the company unlawfully refused to provide financial details.
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April 03, 2024
A Walgreens in Oregon that closed its pharmacy the day its pharmacist and pharmacy technicians announced their union organizing campaign doesn't have to hold a union representation election, a National Labor Relations Board official said, saying the union can request an election again if the pharmacy reopens.
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April 02, 2024
The Third Circuit this month will consider Keystone Coal Mining Co.'s contention that a lower court erred in deeming a miner's black lung a "total disability," while a shuttered rehabilitation facility has asked the court to undo the National Labor Relations Board's determination that it owes unionized employees back pay and bonuses for work done during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 02, 2024
Southern state legislatures recently have shown an interest in bills that would bar businesses that receive state economic incentives from voluntarily recognizing unions based on authorization cards, and experts expect the concept to spread even as questions remain about whether such measures are preempted by federal labor law.
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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.