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May 02, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential preliminary approval of a $12 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against Delta Air Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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May 01, 2025
Amazon's Constitution-based bid to block a National Labor Relations Board case cannot stand now that the company's argument has been rejected in Washington, D.C., federal court, a Teamsters unit told a California federal judge, pointing to the recent D.C. ruling that board members' job protections are constitutional.
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May 01, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board attorney dropped a trio of requests to overturn board precedents about workplace rules and proof of anti-union bias, saying the move to withdraw these efforts stems from the acting general counsel's walk back of some of his predecessor's memoranda.
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May 01, 2025
A Vermont software company is fighting the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it violated federal labor law by firing four workers after a salary spreadsheet circulated at the company, telling the D.C. Circuit that it didn't fire the workers for their legally protected workplace activism but for their hostility toward the company.
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May 01, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has voted to initially hear as a full court the government's challenge to an order blocking a probe of the Social Security Administration and keep the block in place, with a majority differentiating a similar case it recently left to a three-member panel sans injunction.
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May 01, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit not to reconsider its enforcement of a board decision requiring Macy's to pay locked out workers for "direct or foreseeable" harms, arguing the NLRB has the power to issue this remedy under federal labor law.
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April 30, 2025
The operator of the Lodi restaurant in Rockefeller Center violated federal labor law when a manager quoted workers' remarks in a chat about her "fake tears," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, while nixing other allegations, including that management presence illegally increased before a representation vote.
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April 30, 2025
Three cities, a county and a public employees' union asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday to block the government from rescinding $11 billion in public health grants doled out through pandemic-era laws, saying the grants weren't intended to stop when the pandemic stopped.
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April 30, 2025
The AFL-CIO has thrown its weight behind the National Labor Relations Board in the agency's opposition to a constitutional challenge filed by a Texas diner, telling the Fifth Circuit that the diner's "radical theory" rests on an argument the U.S. Supreme Court rejected nearly a century ago.
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April 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenged a bid to halt agencies from giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive systems, telling a D.C. federal judge that a group of unions didn't show personal information would be leaked.
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April 30, 2025
Sports betting company DraftKings Inc. told a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday that she was wrong to allow an MLB players organization's suit over unlicensed use of athletes' likenesses to proceed, arguing that the Third Circuit should weigh in on potentially novel legal issues that could quickly end the case.
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April 30, 2025
Starbucks flouted federal labor law at a Philadelphia store by encouraging workers to report union activity to their managers and by firing two workplace activists over violations of a previously unenforced attendance policy, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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April 30, 2025
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has deepened its labor and employment practice group with a partner in Austin who also serves as co-chair of the firm's higher education industry team and came aboard from Littler Mendelson PC.
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April 30, 2025
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that they said would expand access to paid family leave by incentivizing states to establish their own programs and facilitating the exchange of information between state and federal officials.
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April 29, 2025
The labor union representing the federal government's patent examiners has filed a formal complaint alleging a representative for the union was blocked from being able to talk at a meeting between the workers and the federal patent office.
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April 29, 2025
Bankrupt crafting supply seller Joann Inc. proposed a deal on Monday with unionized workers at an Ohio distribution facility that will pay $1.3 million in severance and unused time-off payments for staying at work until the facility is closed.
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April 29, 2025
The Kroger-owned grocery chain King Soopers urged a Colorado federal judge Tuesday to preserve its lawsuit against a United Food and Commercial Workers local, saying the company can prove that the union is placing unlawful pressure on it to bargain with multiple locals at once.
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April 29, 2025
Exxon Mobil and a United Steelworkers local ended the oil giant's Texas federal court dispute aiming to halt the union from relitigating an issue about the automatic granting of grievances, with a judge approving the parties' request to toss the case.
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April 29, 2025
President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.
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April 29, 2025
A union pension fund won its multimillion-dollar dispute with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. on appeal Tuesday, with the Second Circuit reversing a New York federal judge's 2023 decision that the PBGC was within its rights to reject the fund's 2022 application for $132 million in financial assistance.
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April 29, 2025
A union is fighting Station Casinos LLC's argument that the National Labor Relations Board lacks the authority to prosecute the company for violating labor law, telling a Nevada federal judge that Station's constitutional challenge to the board's structure is an attempt to evade responsibility for its illegal anti-union tactics.
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April 29, 2025
Staff members at the Federal Defenders of New York have announced their plans to join their attorney colleagues as members of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.
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April 29, 2025
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't get the Third Circuit to clarify or tweak an order to put its newsroom employees back on their old health insurance plan, despite concerns from the newspaper company that it may not have been eligible to reenroll them in the plan and would rather go back to bargaining instead.
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April 28, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Monday explained his rationale for blocking President Donald Trump's effort to end collective bargaining for certain federal workers last week, saying that it's likely the president doesn't have the authority to exclude a slew of federal agencies from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.
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April 28, 2025
An ExxonMobil unit Monday urged the full Fifth Circuit to undo a panel of judges' decision backing the National Labor Relations Board in holding the company liable for unfair labor practices despite the board freeing it from allegations years prior, warning of a "politicization" of federal labor laws.