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March 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told a Rhode Island federal court it hasn't violated a preliminary injunction reinstating its bargaining contract with over 300,000 employees, arguing the court can't remedy the union's claims of subsequent contract breaches.
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March 25, 2026
Former Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit decision upholding her firing from the agency, arguing that the decision "muddled" the differences between the board and other federal agencies.
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March 24, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has moved to surrender its members' and judges' job protections, urging a Texas federal judge to strike language restricting their removals so the agency can restart a blocked suit accusing a pipeline company of retaliating against a worker.
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March 24, 2026
An Indiana city must allow a Teamsters local to resume picketing in front of a casino because the site is located on public property, the union told the Seventh Circuit, urging the court to reverse a lower court decision.
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March 24, 2026
A D.C. federal judge ruled that four nonprofit groups can continue to pursue their claims that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency violated the Constitution's appointments clause and acted outside their legal authority while dismissing other Administrative Procedure Act and separation of powers claims.
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March 24, 2026
Drivers at a vehicle transportation company's Kansas City, Missouri, location can vote on union representation next month, a National Labor Relations Board official held Tuesday, rejecting the company's request to include workers at other locations in the potential bargaining unit.
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March 24, 2026
A carpenters union and its retirement plan manager failed in an early bid to defeat a class action claiming they violated federal benefits law by investing retirement plan assets in risky funds that lost more than $250 million, with a Washington federal judge saying the Ninth Circuit already determined that the workers have a viable claim.
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March 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't disturb a union pension fund's win in a multimillion-dollar dispute with the federal agency that bails out struggling pension funds, the fund's trustees have argued, asking the justices to reject the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s petition for review of a Second Circuit ruling.
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March 24, 2026
A threatened strike by a Teamsters local representing bus drivers in two Massachusetts public school districts would violate the terms of their collective bargaining agreement, a school transportation company claimed, asking a federal court Tuesday to stop the drivers from going through with the work stoppage.
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March 24, 2026
An oil company agreed to pay $9 million to settle 750 workers' claims alleging they were not compensated for their 12-hour standby shifts, the employees told a California federal court, seeking the final approval for the deal.
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March 23, 2026
Wash. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed employment bills on Monday establishing a fallback framework for the state to oversee certain private-sector labor disputes in the case that the National Labor Relations Board's jurisdiction is scaled back by the federal government and expanding the state's restrictions on noncompete provisions to an outright ban.
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March 23, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board shouldn't revise a recent order finding that Browning-Ferris must bargain with a staffing agency's employees, a Teamsters unit argued, rebuffing the waste management company's argument that the board needs to clarify what terms the company has individual and shared control over.
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March 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hasn't confirmed that its employees are eligible for benefits and protections under a union contract even though a Rhode Island federal judge ordered the agency to resume complying with the contract, an American Federation of Government Employees local claims.
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March 23, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday sided with a nuclear power company in a dispute with an electrical workers union over contributions to employee healthcare premiums, holding that the union couldn't force issues out of court because their disagreement was outside the scope of the collective bargaining agreement's arbitration provision.
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March 23, 2026
Plane parts maker Woodward urged the National Labor Relations Board to shift its precedent to require a vote when a union affiliates with another union, saying its current approach of probing continuity suppresses workers' due process rights.
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March 23, 2026
An organization representing the largest U.S. airlines supported its claims that Chicago's new paid sick leave law could affect air carriers' business, an Illinois federal judge said, keeping alive the group's challenge to the law.
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March 23, 2026
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a former Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner in Los Angeles to bolster its capacity to handle labor and employment matters.
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March 23, 2026
An aircraft parts factory can't force its sonic department employees to monitor more than one ultrasonic testing tank at a time, an Ohio federal judge ruled, shooting down the factory's challenge to the "one operator, one tank" rule.
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March 23, 2026
A group of non-tenure-track faculty members at the University of Southern California can vote on representation by a United Auto Workers unit, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, finding that the workers are not considered managers under federal labor law.
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March 20, 2026
A hydro-excavation company must submit to an audit by a union pension fund, an Indiana federal judge ruled Friday, agreeing with the fund that the company is contractually obligated to do so.
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March 20, 2026
A pilots labor union hit JetBlue Airways with a lawsuit in New York federal court, seeking to force the airline to arbitrate pilots' contract dispute over its Blue Sky partnership with United Airlines, which the union claims allows JetBlue to unfairly farm out flights to other carriers.
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March 20, 2026
An Illinois appeals court has partially revived a lawsuit alleging that a candidate for a secretary treasurer position at a Chicago Fire Fighters Union local made defamatory Facebook comments about his campaign opponent, ruling that several of the comments support the suit's defamation claim.
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March 20, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge has determined that a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Department of Transportation's more than 40-year-old Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program for women- and minority-owned businesses is now moot since the Trump administration overhauled the program last year.
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March 20, 2026
A New York federal judge will consider on Tuesday whether to grant final approval to a $300,000 settlement in a class and collective action accusing a healthcare company of violating federal and state wage and hour laws. Here, Law360 looks at this and other matters coming up on the docket in New York.
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March 20, 2026
The Eighth Circuit should nix a $220,000 penalty imposed on BNSF Railway by the U.S. Department of Labor's whistleblower tribunal, the railway argued, claiming the tribunal lacks the authority under the U.S. Constitution to levy such penalties.