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January 27, 2025
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys infringed on three members' rights by moving to expel them for trying to stop the union from voting on a controversial pro-Palestine resolution, the attorneys said, asking a New York federal judge to preserve claims that the union violated labor and anti-discrimination laws.
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January 27, 2025
The Sixth Circuit upheld a win for the nation's oldest maritime union Monday, finding that the organization had no ability to defend a cook who was fired by a steamship company after she missed her boat.
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January 27, 2025
The D.C. Circuit appeared unlikely Monday to decide whether the National Labor Relations Board correctly tagged Google as the joint employer of quality assurance contractors, with a panel seeming skeptical that it can weigh in a year after Google ended its deal with the workers' direct employer.
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January 27, 2025
A transportation services provider in Arizona hasn't shown that some of its workers are supervisors unable to unionize under federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, saying these workers don't use independent judgment when it comes to work assignments or discipline.
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January 27, 2025
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored significant employer-side wins this year, including a Texas federal court's decision to nationally invalidate a federal rule banning noncompetes and defeating misclassification claims against Uber in Massachusetts, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2025
A parking contractor unlawfully snubbed a United Food & Commercial Workers affiliate and refused to hire 35 union employees upon taking over valet services at a Long Island, New York, hospital, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, deeming the contractor a successor to the previous contractor.
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January 24, 2025
An SEIU affiliate is off the hook for allegations from a government employee that the union forged her signature on a membership agreement authorizing dues deductions, an Oregon federal judge ruled Friday, finding the outcome of a related state employment board proceeding precludes her claims in court.
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January 24, 2025
The AAA motor club unit spanning some Western states can't implement a contract proposal to cut workers' commissions on renewed insurance policies, a California federal judge ruled, while denying the National Labor Relations Board's requests for a bargaining order and reinstatement of a fired union supporter.
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January 24, 2025
A group that advocates for college athletes to be paid can drop its claim that these players are National Labor Relations Act-protected employees, the Pac-12 Conference said, consenting to the group's request to withdraw a case being heard by a National Labor Relations Board judge.
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January 24, 2025
The ex-fire chief of a Michigan paper plant urged the Sixth Circuit to revive his suit claiming the United Steelworkers unfairly refused to challenge his 2021 firing, arguing his rep blindly accepted the company's explanation for canning him even though he gave reasons to doubt it.
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January 24, 2025
In the next week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $3.6 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against a freight carrier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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January 24, 2025
Shegerian & Associates won two jury trials for an oncologist in her gender discrimination lawsuit and secured a $14 million award for a bank manager who was fired for taking leave to care for her critically ill husband, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
A group of nurse educators can vote on whether they want to join an existing bargaining unit at a Brooklyn hospital, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, rejecting the employer's claims that the educators are statutory supervisors and the parties' labor contract prevents the election.
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January 24, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider YouGov's bid to toss a former executive's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against because of her gender and ultimately forced to resign after she complained about her treatment.
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January 23, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would be uniquely harmed if forced to follow the Trump administration's return to office mandate, given its nearly 30-year history of telework that has led to 96% of its employees being permanently remote.
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January 23, 2025
Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court has ruled that the city of Pittsburgh overcharged retired police officers for healthcare benefits, rejecting the city's argument to overturn an arbitrator's award in favor of the local Fraternal Order of Police lodge as too expansive.
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January 23, 2025
President Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely usher in a more difficult organizing climate for labor unions, and experts said the coming changes could particularly complicate organizing in academia and industries with many low-wage workers.
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January 23, 2025
Defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday that its last delivery was made the day before it laid off 22,000 union workers, making it a "liquidating fiduciary" that would not be liable for inadequate mass-layoff notices under the WARN Act.
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January 23, 2025
An Arizona federal judge must nix a restaurant group's constitutional claims against the National Labor Relations Board, the agency argued, saying the company hasn't shown how removal protections for board members and administrative law judges brought about harm.
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January 23, 2025
UPS and a Teamsters local defeated a fired employee's race discrimination and Americans with Disabilities Act suit Thursday before the Eleventh Circuit, with the appellate court upholding a victory by the company and union before a Florida federal judge.
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January 23, 2025
Paul Hastings LLP represents major companies like Nike and Google, and handled overlapping discrimination government investigations against video game company Activision Blizzard, ultimately notching settlements that closed the book on both probes, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
A fired United Airlines technician asked a New York federal judge to compel arbitration of a grievance he filed in June over his termination, saying he has a right to have the grievance arbitrated under the Railway Labor Act.
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January 23, 2025
A California appeals court refused to reinstate a challenge from several employer associations seeking to strike down new regulations governing how apprentices can spend their time working, saying the California Apprenticeship Council was in the clear to promulgate the new rules.
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January 22, 2025
Amazon's 2021 firing of a worker at a North Las Vegas fulfillment center did not violate the National Labor Relations Act, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting board prosecutors' argument that the worker's firing was linked to her complaints about working conditions.
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January 22, 2025
Starbucks Workers United's hopes of reaching favorable contracts with the coffee giant have diminished amid a breakdown in once-promising negotiations and the reignition of the bitter legal battle that clouded the campaign's first two years.