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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.
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January 22, 2025
The Government Accountability Office has rejected a Georgia-based construction contractor's challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' denial of its building repair contract proposal, saying the agency reasonably deemed the contractor's project labor agreement to be insufficient.
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January 22, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court must weigh in on whether its Loper Bright decision changed the deference standard at the National Labor Relations Board, a highway construction company argued, challenging a Sixth Circuit ruling that also touched on whether the president can lawfully fire the agency's general counsel.
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January 22, 2025
Epstein Becker Green's employment team convinced the Fifth Circuit to strike down a major U.S. Department of Labor rule governing employers' ability to take tip credits out of servers' wages, a blockbuster achievement that snagged it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has invalidated a 2022 executive order by then-President Joe Biden requiring contractors to work with unions to be considered for federal construction projects over $35 million, saying the mandate "stifles competition."
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January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump's flood of executive orders following his inauguration included a number of measures targeted at or broadly affecting federal contractors, such as lifting Biden administration antidiscrimination and climate change-related requirements and restarting border wall construction.
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January 21, 2025
The United Steelworkers hit energy infrastructure giant Kinder Morgan with a counterclaim asking a Texas federal judge to enforce an employee discipline arbitration decision that the company has challenged in court.
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January 21, 2025
Defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. said it has reached a settlement with some former employees who claimed they were terminated without proper notice, as the debtor began a trial in Delaware bankruptcy court that is now focused solely on WARN Act claims from unions.
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January 21, 2025
The proposed contracts for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's production unions would have left workers at a disadvantage during the grievance process because they gave the newspaper publisher broad discretion, counsel for the National Labor Relations Board suggested during a federal court hearing Tuesday.
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January 21, 2025
A California appeals court upended a hospital operator's win on some claims in nurses' wage and hour lawsuit, saying the nurses put forward enough evidence to show their employer's rounding policy resulted in their underpayment.
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January 21, 2025
A Carpenters-represented worker suing a group of union benefit plans for cutting off his and his coworkers' benefits after a collective bargaining agreement expired is fighting to keep his lawsuit in California federal court, urging the court to reject the plans' argument that he lacked standing to sue.
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January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump must halt efforts to enforce his executive order easing the process to fire certain federal employees, the National Treasury Employees Union argued in a lawsuit, claiming thousands of workers could be at risk of termination "for any reason including political agenda."
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January 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor pushed against an effort by two construction groups to ax a final rule updating how prevailing wage rates are calculated under the Davis-Bacon Act, telling a Texas federal court the groups' arguments were rootless and misplaced.
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January 21, 2025
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday enforced a National Labor Relations Board order making Macy's pay heightened remedies to workers it refused to rehire after their 2020 strike ended, opening a split with the Third Circuit.
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January 21, 2025
The plaintiff-side law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC snagged over $78 million last year in settlements for workers who'd faced discrimination on the job, including big payouts from both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to theirs.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 17, 2025
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 17, 2025
A Buffalo, New York-area nursing home violated the law by abruptly closing and laying off 117 workers, a Service Employees International Union local said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday, saying state and federal laws require New York workers to have advance notice of layoffs and shutdowns.
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January 17, 2025
The coming Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board is expected to make swift and dramatic changes to the federal labor policies the board issued under President Joe Biden, but the current legal landscape might discourage the agency from using rulemaking as often as its predecessors.
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January 17, 2025
A Teamsters local in Pittsburgh urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to dismiss a union member's suit alleging the union conspired with production companies not to hire him to work on a Tom Hanks film, saying his lawsuit making age bias and duty of fair representation claims was "meritless."
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January 17, 2025
In the coming year, the debate over a carveout to federal arbitration requirements for interstate transportation workers is expected to heat up, while challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality are set to continue and pay transparency laws will expand to more states. Here, Law360 takes a look at issues experts say are likely to hit the employment law world in 2025.
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January 17, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is challenging a General Motors policy that limits disability payments to Social Security recipients, accusing GM and the United Auto Workers in a lawsuit filed Friday in Indiana federal court of violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act by negotiating the policy.
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January 17, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former New York City IT worker's claim that she faced sexual harassment and discrimination at her job and was ultimately forced from her position in retaliation for complaining.
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January 17, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board is seeking a bargaining order in Illinois federal court against a company that provides workers to truck dealerships, arguing an injunction is necessary to prevent a loss of support for an International Association of Machinists affiliate.