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January 16, 2025
Union leaders and management for ports and shipping companies reached a tentative deal to avoid a major strike, a close call that highlighted how losses from trade disruptions can fall through the cracks of standard insurance coverage. Stephen Raptis, a partner at Reed Smith LLP's insurance recovery practice, spoke to Law360 about the kinds of losses that can result from a strike-induced supply chain disruption, where the usual coverage options fall short and what policyholders in the maritime trade can do to minimize their risks.
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January 16, 2025
A Michigan federal jury on Thursday awarded $133,000 to a fired MGM Grand Detroit warehouse worker who had alleged he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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January 16, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House Monday is expected to usher in some immediate changes at the National Labor Relations Board, including key leadership moves that may lead to less heat on employers.
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January 16, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board's lead prosecutor laid out guidance Thursday for instances in the workplace when the National Labor Relations Act and equal employment opportunity laws intersect, explaining how employers can tweak workplace rules and approach investigations to comply with these statutes.
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January 16, 2025
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has hired a former Jackson Lewis PC attorney, who also has experience working in-house for the National Basketball Association as an associate counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
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January 16, 2025
Workers got back millions of dollars in the last fiscal year while unlawfully employed minors received the protections they deserved after the U.S. Department of Labor stepped in, Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda said in her office's last enforcement report before the new presidential administration takes office.
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January 16, 2025
A pair of labor attorneys looking to bolster their practices' national reach have joined Blank Rome's Philadelphia office, after more than six years with Stevens & Lee PC.
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January 15, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission denied bids from Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx that sought to bar the commission's Democratic members from participating in a case accusing the pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices.
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January 15, 2025
Separate rulings from the National Labor Relations Board and an agency judge about the legality of granting or withholding raises at unionized Starbucks stores "force employers into a box" because they contradict each other, the company claimed, requesting additional briefing to the board on the issue.
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January 15, 2025
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania won't take up an appeal from the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is seeking to block striking union workers from picketing outside a newspaper distribution center, the court announced Wednesday.
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January 15, 2025
Allegiant Airlines is violating the Railway Labor Act by forcing pilots to complete a series of training sessions while bargaining with the Teamsters' Airline Division is ongoing, the union alleged in an injunction petition filed in Nevada federal court, saying the airline must maintain the status quo during negotiations.
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January 15, 2025
Mozilla Corp. settled an unfair labor practice case accusing the maker of the Firefox web browser of turning down an applicant who posted on social media about her job search, with the company agreeing to shell out $300,000 to the worker.
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January 15, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump said late Tuesday he plans to nominate former EEOC Commissioner and Department of Labor official Keith Sonderling for deputy labor secretary, the second-in-command at the DOL.
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January 14, 2025
The Democratic-led Federal Trade Commission held its final meeting before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week, moving to protect unionizing gig workers and examine investor holdings in the single-family-housing market, while the Republican waiting to take the helm said the body should stop announcing new plans.
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January 14, 2025
A court-appointed monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers as part of a corruption case settlement said he launched a new investigation into misconduct claims against union officials, while noting the union has handed over requested documents.
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January 14, 2025
The Railway Labor Act allows a commercial air pilot to independently pursue in arbitration his claim that a commercial air carrier fired him without just cause even after a union refuses to do so, an Alaska federal court ruled Tuesday.
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January 14, 2025
A Missouri federal judge should have let an arbitration board decide whether a wrongfully fired railroad conductor qualified for paid vacation time after his reinstatement, the Eighth Circuit said Tuesday, reversing the judge's decision that the worker qualified and remanding the issue to the arbitration board.
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January 14, 2025
United Food and Commercial Workers locals in California urged the Ninth Circuit to nix a National Labor Relations Board finding that a clause barring subcontracting in a labor contract with Ralphs Grocery Co. is unlawful, challenging the board's reference to a 1980s agency precedent about such provisions.
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January 14, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission released a second "interim" report on pharmacy benefit managers and their effects on specialty drug prices Tuesday, claiming that the companies have driven up prices well over acquisition costs and continue to squeeze independent pharmacies out of the market through low reimbursement rates.
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January 14, 2025
A New Hampshire electric company refused to bargain with its employees' newly installed union as a way to challenge the union's certification in court, the National Labor Relations Board said, ruling the company violated federal labor law and ordering it to begin negotiations.
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January 13, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and Amazon have challenged a decision that the company tainted a union representation election at an Alabama warehouse, with prosecutors saying the NLRB judge should have identified more labor law violations and Amazon saying its opposition to the union campaign was legal.
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January 13, 2025
A Boston hotel violated federal labor law by withdrawing recognition from a UNITE HERE affiliate, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Monday, saying the company did not prove that the union lost majority support.
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January 13, 2025
The Service Employees International Union's reunion with the AFL-CIO last week, experts said, will make it easier for the labor movement to coordinate as it enters what is expected to be a challenging time for unions and organizing.
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January 13, 2025
The Ninth Circuit declined to reinstate a lawsuit brought by former workers for a salmon processing company who accused it of failing to pay them overtime wages when it required them to be on call during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding the workers were not often called to return to work.
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January 13, 2025
Bankrupt trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday that the administrators of its union pension funds have set the company's liability for ending its contributions too high.