The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to stay an order reinstating fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox doesn't preclude the D.C. Circuit from finding NLRB members fit an exception to the president's firing power, Wilcox told an appeals panel.
A recent National Labor Relations Board charge challenging a production company's use of artificial intelligence to voice Darth Vader in a video game underscores the many emerging risks for workers and employers lurking around the use of AI.
An Oregon federal judge's recent decision to block a state law requiring employers in the cannabis industry to reach labor peace agreements with unions could bolster challenges to similar laws in other states as the issue continues on a path experts expect to land at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to stay an order reinstating fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox doesn't preclude the D.C. Circuit from finding NLRB members fit an exception to the president's firing power, Wilcox told an appeals panel.
A recent National Labor Relations Board charge challenging a production company's use of artificial intelligence to voice Darth Vader in a video game underscores the many emerging risks for workers and employers lurking around the use of AI.
An Oregon federal judge's recent decision to block a state law requiring employers in the cannabis industry to reach labor peace agreements with unions could bolster challenges to similar laws in other states as the issue continues on a path experts expect to land at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 30, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to lift a California federal judge's preliminary block of President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, handing a win to a coalition of unions, nonprofits and cities that argue the order exceeded the president's authority.
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May 30, 2025
Saying that June's circuit court calendars include important arguments in all practice areas would be hyperbolic — but just slightly. That's because significant showdowns are imminent, involving appellate procedure principles, "click-to-cancel" rules, government procurement protests, judiciary employment protections and litigation risk insurance — as well as President Donald Trump's felony convictions and extraordinary deportation measures.
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May 30, 2025
Attorneys in the National Labor Relations Board's Division of Advice recommended not pursuing a case accusing Starbucks of issuing overly broad subpoenas and unlawfully questioning witnesses during an unfair labor practice prosecution due to "limited agency resources," according to a memo released on Friday.
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May 30, 2025
A New Jersey state appeals court on Friday supported a state employment board's conclusion that Teamsters-represented workers at a concrete manufacturing company who went on strike are eligible for unemployment benefits, finding federal labor law does not preempt the state agency's decision.
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May 30, 2025
Two Black ex-employees should lose their federal racial discrimination lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. because one was fired for stealing time, and the other has shown "no evidence of any adverse employment action," the company said in seeking summary judgment Thursday.
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May 30, 2025
A union can't seek to represent liquor sales employees in St. Louis, an acting National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding workers in the proposed bargaining unit have similar employment terms to those at the alcohol distributor's other facilities in Missouri.
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May 30, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for California Supreme Court oral arguments regarding what an employer must show for a good faith defense in a wage case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the Golden State.
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May 30, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether a class of former workers at a Four Seasons hotel can withdraw their request for a jury trial in their suit claiming the hotel did not provide required notices before laying them off.
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May 30, 2025
The Third Circuit's June argument lineup will find a finance company fighting a proposed class action over allegedly predatory payday loan fees because of its tribal ties, while a plumbing company argues that it does not have to arbitrate a union grievance.
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May 29, 2025
A Michigan woman is seeking at least $1 million in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Michigan federal court against the U.S. subsidiary of Dutch automaker Stellantis and the United Auto Workers on allegations she was replaced as a team leader by less experienced male colleagues and that the union would not represent her — both due to her gender.
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May 29, 2025
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters asked a New York federal judge to toss a former United Airlines technician's lawsuit seeking to force arbitration of a grievance over his firing, saying federal labor law does not give individual employees the right to arbitrate grievances over their union's objection.
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May 29, 2025
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday issued two memos outlining plans for hiring federal workers based on merit, following President Donald Trump's executive orders declaring that the federal hiring system focuses too much on anti-discrimination and not enough on employees willing to serve the executive branch.
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May 29, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge hinted she may grant an injunction against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management related to what she called a "rushed, indeed chaotic, grant of access" to sensitive information for agents of the Department of Government Efficiency, before urging the government to hammer out a deal with the union plaintiffs.
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May 29, 2025
Oregon's cannabis regulator said Thursday that it would no longer enforce a voter-approved law requiring cannabis businesses to enter into labor peace agreements with their employees, following a federal judge's ruling that the law was preempted by federal policy.
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May 29, 2025
A nonprofit in New York City that operates youth homeless shelters told a federal judge to block National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' bid for an "intrusive" bargaining order, arguing the court should not consider the injunction petition based solely on evidence from the unfair labor practice proceeding.
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May 29, 2025
Massachusetts' highest court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit brought by a former appellate court staff attorney who said he was intentionally undermined by supervisors, finding that he had made a reasonable showing that two of the three original defendants had demonstrated actual malice toward him.
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May 29, 2025
A divided Fifth Circuit panel again blessed the National Labor Relations Board's order that supported a former acting general counsel's withdrawal of an unfair labor practice complaint against two Teamsters locals, analyzing the dispute on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 29, 2025
The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing in early June on President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration, according to a news release Thursday.
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May 28, 2025
Kevin Costner and the producers of the American West film series "Horizon" were sued in California state court by a stunt double who alleged she had to perform an impromptu, unscripted violent rape scene without an intimacy coordinator on set and other protocols under the actors' union contract.
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May 28, 2025
Two longtime members of a Service Employees International Union affiliate who served in leadership posts accused their union of unlawfully suspending them and imposing a gag order about their discipline, telling a Michigan federal judge that they weren't given a fair hearing.
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May 28, 2025
President Donald Trump has pardoned a former International Union of Operating Engineers president who was facing the prospect of six months in prison for accepting free sports tickets without disclosing their value to the U.S. Department of Labor, his attorneys told a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday.
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May 28, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board "thumb[ed] its nose" at employers' speech rights by ruling that Starbucks threatened workers and using the case to reverse precedent letting employers opine that a union would come between them and workers, the company told the Ninth Circuit.
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May 28, 2025
A social services nonprofit in California was within its rights to fire an employee who supported organizing efforts with a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, but broke the law when it told the worker union discussions must not happen in the office.
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May 27, 2025
The First Circuit quashed a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering Northeastern University in Boston to negotiate with a union representing campus police department employees, determining the board strayed from precedent when finding sergeants are not supervisors under federal labor law.
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May 27, 2025
A Washington federal judge seemed troubled by the government's February move to rip up a union deal covering Transportation Security Administration workers, but didn't tip her hand at a hearing Tuesday as to whether she thinks the American Federation of Government Employees deserves an injunction.