Labor

  • April 29, 2025

    USPTO Flouted Labor Law At Examiner Meeting, Union Says

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Joann Floats $1.3M Ohio Closure Deal With Union Workers

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Kroger-Owned Chain Fights To Keep UFCW Suit Alive

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Exxon, USW Settle Texas Court Case About Grievance Spat

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Trump Can't Reorganize Gov't Without Congress, Groups Say

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Union Pension Fund Wins $132M Bailout Suit At 2nd Circ.

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Union Fights Vegas Casino Co.'s Bid To Block NLRB Cases

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    Federal Defenders Of NY Staff Announce Union Drive

    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.

  • April 29, 2025

    3rd Circ. Denies Post-Gazette Bid To Tweak Benefits Order

    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.

  • April 28, 2025

    Judge Says Trump Lacked Power To Erase Bargaining Rights

    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.

  • April 28, 2025

    Exxon Asks Full 5th Circ. To Rethink NLRB Flip In Labor Case

    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.

  • April 28, 2025

    DC Circ. Restores Ban On CFPB Mass Layoffs Amid Appeal

    A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must refrain for now from mass employee firings, backtracking from a prior decision that the Trump administration had used to attempt a now-suspended layoff of nearly all the agency's staff.

  • April 28, 2025

    3rd Circ. Won't Rethink Teamsters Fund's Win In $39M Row

    The Third Circuit won't give a group of dairy businesses a second chance to prevent a Teamsters union pension fund from suing them and their affiliates to enforce a $39 million settlement, the court announced Monday.

  • April 28, 2025

    Judge 'Commandeered' VOA, DC Circ. Told

    The Trump administration is urging the D.C. Circuit to narrow an injunction preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America while the administration appeals a ruling that halted the broadcasting service's dismantling, saying a trial court judge ruled too broadly by reinstating grant agreements and employees.

  • April 28, 2025

    HCA Florida Hospitals Ordered To Arbitrate SEIU's Grievances

    A group of 17 HCA Florida hospitals must go before an arbitrator to resolve a Service Employees International union affiliate's grievances about legal fees tied to a dues deduction dispute, a federal judge ruled Monday, finding the grievances fall under an arbitration provision in the parties' labor contracts.

  • April 28, 2025

    Amazon Defends Firings, Disciplines Amid Ky. Union Drive

    Amazon didn't violate federal labor law by firing and disciplining workers while a union organizing effort was taking off at a facility near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, the e-commerce giant argued, alleging National Labor Relations Board attorneys are seeking an unconstitutional nationwide notice-reading remedy.

  • April 28, 2025

    9th Circ. Backs Vegas Hotel In Ex-Worker's Disability Bias Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to reopen a former bartender's lawsuit alleging a Las Vegas hotel forced her to take leave and eventually fired her for tremors caused by her cancer treatment, saying she hadn't provided enough evidence to back up her claims.

  • April 28, 2025

    Unions Tell Judge To Stop DOGE's Federal Personnel Probe

    A New York federal judge should block the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from disclosing information about federal employees to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, three unions argued in an updated injunction request, saying their position is stronger now that the judge denied the government's dismissal bid.

  • April 28, 2025

    No Harm Shown Over DOGE Access To Tax Data, US Says

    The U.S. government asked a D.C. federal court to throw out four organizations' bid to keep the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data, saying their suit fails to show injury to the groups' members.

  • April 28, 2025

    Trump Fights Foreign Service Union's Injunction Bid

    President Donald Trump disputed the American Foreign Service Association's injunction bid to block portions of his executive order that gutted collective bargaining rights for federal workers, telling a D.C. federal judge the union could still receive dues and represent employees in the grievance process.

  • April 28, 2025

    NLRB's Retreat Doesn't Moot Constitution Suit, DC Circ. Told

    Two Starbucks workers seeking to void National Labor Relations Board members' job protections urged the D.C. Circuit to keep a challenge to their suit's dismissal alive over the objections of the board, which argued its acceptance of the workers' argument moots the case.

  • April 28, 2025

    Teamsters Say UPS Fleeced Workers Through Pay Deductions

    The United Parcel Service deducted hundreds of dollars from unionized workers' April 3 paychecks without their consent, a Teamsters unit and four employees told a New York federal court. 

  • April 28, 2025

    Union Tells 3rd Circ. Healthcare Fight Belongs In Arbitration

    A Pennsylvania federal judge properly concluded that a healthcare dispute between a power plant operator and an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local was arbitrable, the union said, asking the Third Circuit to uphold the judge's decision to send the fight to arbitration.

  • April 25, 2025

    Employer-Side Ties May Pose Conflicts For NLRB GC Pick

    National Labor Relations Board general counsel nominee Crystal Carey has taken some criticism for her employment with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a prominent management-side firm that represents big-name clients before the board. Here, Law360 explores federal officials' ethics obligations and what they may mean for Carey's potential role as the labor board's next top cop. 

  • April 25, 2025

    Judge Blocks Trump Order Limiting Fed. Worker Bargaining

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's order last month seeking to end collective bargaining for workers at more than a dozen federal agencies with national security roles, two days after suggesting during oral arguments that Trump's order was retaliatory.

Expert Analysis

  • 4 Employment Law Areas Set To Change Under Trump

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    President Donald Trump's second term is expected to bring significant changes to the U.S. employment law landscape, including the potential for updated worker classification regulations, and challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion that are already taking shape, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • 10 Key Worker-Friendly California Employment Law Updates

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    New employment laws in California expand employee rights, transparency and enforcement mechanisms, and failing to educate department managers on these changes could put employers at risk, says Melanie Ronen at Stradley Ronon.

  • 7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

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    A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights and avoid legal responsibility shines a light on seven unique contractual provisions that violate federal labor laws, and face agressive litigation from the labor solicitor, says Thomas Starks at Freeman Mathis.

  • How Trump Presidency May Influence NLRB's Next Phase

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    Attorneys at Paul Hastings discuss how last year’s key National Labor Relations Board developments may progress once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, including the wave of lawsuits challenging the board’s constitutionality and two landmark board decisions that upset decades of precedent.

  • How Trump Admin May Approach AI In The Workplace

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    Key indicators suggest that the incoming Trump administration will adopt a deregulatory approach to artificial intelligence, allowing states to fill the void, so it is critical that employers pay close attention to developing legal authority concerning AI tools, say attorneys at Littler.

  • Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs

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    General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.

  • Top 10 Employer Resolutions For 2025

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    While companies must monitor for policy shifts under the new administration in 2025, it will also be a year to play it safe and remember the basics, such as the importance of documenting retention policies and conducting swift investigations into workplace complaints, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

  • NLRB Likely To Fill Vacuum After NMB Jurisdiction Ruling

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    The National Mediation Board's recent ruling in Swissport Cargo Services LP abandoned decades of precedent by concluding the Railway Labor Act doesn’t apply to airline service providers, likely leading the National Labor Relations Board to assert its jurisdiction instead and potentially causing more operational disruptions and labor strife, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Ring In The New Year With An Updated Employee Handbook

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    One of the best New Year's resolutions employers can make is to update their employee handbooks, given that a handbook can mitigate, or even prevent, costly litigation as long as it accounts for recent changes in laws, court rulings and agency decisions, say attorneys at Kutak Rock.

  • 9 Things To Expect From Trump's Surprising DOL Pick

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    The unexpected nomination of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., to lead the U.S. Department of Labor reflects a blend of pro-business and pro-labor leanings, and signals that employers should prepare for a mix of continuity and moderate adjustments in the coming years, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.

  • Why State Captive Audience Laws Matter After NLRB Decision

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    As employers focus on complying with the National Labor Relations Board's new position that captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, they should also be careful not to overlook state captive audience laws that prohibit additional types of company meetings and communications, says Karla Grossenbacher at Seyfarth.

  • Pa. Ruling Highlights Challenges Of Employer Arb. Appeals

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    A Pennsylvania federal court's recent ruling in Welch Foods v. General Teamsters Local Union No. 397 demonstrates the inherent difficulties employers face when seeking relief from labor arbitration decisions through appeals in court — and underscores how employers are faced with often conflicting legal priorities, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O'Connor.

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