Labor

  • January 22, 2025

    Starbucks Union's Contract Hopes Dim After Peace Fractures

    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.

  • January 22, 2025

    GAO Says Army Corps Reasonably Rejected Contractor's Bid

    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.

  • January 22, 2025

    Co. Wants High Court Ruling On NLRB Deference, GC Firing

    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.

  • January 22, 2025

    Employment Group Of The Year: Epstein Becker

    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.

  • January 22, 2025

    Judge Cans Biden Order Supporting Union Contractors

    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."

  • January 21, 2025

    What Gov't Contractors Must Know About Trump Exec Actions

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Union Hits Kinder Morgan With Counterclaim In Firing Fight

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Yellow Corp. Teamsters Trial Opens With Some Settlements

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    NLRB Targets Post-Gazette Publisher's 'Discretion'  

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Calif. Appeals Court Reinstates Nurses' Wage Suit

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Union Worker Says He Has Standing To Sue Carpenters Plans

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Union Calls For Block To Trump's Federal Workers Order

    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."

  • January 21, 2025

    DOL Pushes To Ax Challenge Against Prevailing Wage Rule

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Split 9th Circ. Backs Enhanced NLRB Remedy Against Macy's

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Employment Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    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.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Orders Federal Workers Back To Office

    On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to theirs.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    Union Says NY Nursing Home Didn't Warn Of Layoffs, Closure

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    NLRB May Be Cautious Of Regulation Post-Loper Bright

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    Teamsters Fight Member's Hiring Dispute For Tom Hanks Film

    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."

  • January 17, 2025

    Predictions For Arbitration Carveout, NLRB Legality And More

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    EEOC Says GM, Union Benefit Rule Dings Older Auto Workers

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    NY Forecast: Second Circuit Hears NYC IT Worker Bias Suit

    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.

  • January 17, 2025

    NLRB Official Seeks Order For Truck Staffing Cos. To Bargain

    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.

Expert Analysis

  • Assessing Work Rules After NLRB Handbook Ruling

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    The National Labor Relations Board's Stericycle decision last year sparked uncertainty surrounding whether historically acceptable work rules remain lawful — but employers can use a two-step analysis to assess whether to implement a given rule and how to do so in a compliant manner, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • A Look At Global Employee Disconnect Laws For US Counsel

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    As countries worldwide adopt employee right to disconnect laws, U.S. in-house counsel at corporations with a global workforce must develop a comprehensive understanding of the laws' legal and cultural implications, ensuring their companies can safeguard employee welfare while maintaining legal compliance, say Emma Corcoran and Ute Krudewagen at DLA Piper.

  • Employers Beware Of NLRB Changes On Bad Faith Bargaining

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    Recent National Labor Relations Board decisions show a trend of the agency imposing harsher remedies on employers for bad faith bargaining over union contracts, a position upheld in the Ninth Circuit's recent NLRB v. Grill Concepts Services decision, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Practicing Law With Parkinson's Disease

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    This Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Adam Siegler at Greenberg Traurig discusses his experience working as a lawyer with Parkinson’s disease, sharing both lessons on how to cope with a diagnosis and advice for supporting colleagues who live with the disease.

  • What A Post-Chevron Landscape Could Mean For Labor Law

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    With the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Chevron deference expected by the end of June, it’s not too soon to consider how National Labor Relations Act interpretations could be affected if federal courts no longer defer to administrative agencies’ statutory interpretation and regulatory actions, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Eye On Compliance: Employee Social Media Privacy In NY

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    A New York law that recently took effect restricts employers' ability to access the personal social media accounts of employees and job applicants, signifying an increasing awareness of the need to balance employers' interests with worker privacy and free speech rights, says Madjeen Garcon-Bonneau at Wilson Elser.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents

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    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • What The NIL Negotiation Rules Injunction Means For NCAA

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    A Tennessee federal court's recent preliminary injunction reverses several prominent and well-established NCAA rules on negotiations with student-athletes over name, image and likeness compensation and shows that collegiate athletics is a profoundly unsettled legal environment, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • Takeaways From NLRB Advice On 'Outside' Employment

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    Rebecca Leaf at Miles & Stockbridge examines a recent memo from the National Labor Relations Board’s Division of Advice that said it’s unlawful for employers to restrict secondary or outside employment, and explains what companies should know about the use of certain restrictive covenants going forward.

  • Shaping Speech Policies After NLRB's BLM Protest Ruling

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    After the National Labor Relations Board decided last month that a Home Depot employee was protected by federal labor law when they wore a Black Lives Matter slogan on their apron, employers should consider four questions in order to mitigate legal risks associated with workplace political speech policies, say Louis Cannon and Cassandra Horton at Baker Donelson.

  • 2026 World Cup: Companies Face Labor Challenges And More

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    Companies sponsoring or otherwise involved with the 2026 FIFA World Cup — hosted jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico — should be proactive in preparing to navigate many legal considerations in immigration, labor management and multijurisdictional workforces surrounding the event, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Eye On Compliance: Workplace March Madness Pools

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    With March Madness set to begin in a few weeks, employers should recognize that workplace sports betting is technically illegal, keeping federal and state gambling laws in mind when determining whether they will permit ever-popular bracket pools, says Laura Stutz at Wilson Elser.

  • There Is No NCAA Supremacy Clause, Especially For NIL

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    A recent Tennessee federal court ruling illustrates the NCAA's problematic position that its member schools should violate state law rather than its rules — and the organization's legal history with the dormant commerce clause raises a fundamental constitutional issue that will have to be resolved before attorneys can navigate NIL with confidence, says Patrick O’Donnell at HWG.

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