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May 06, 2024
Justices on Massachusetts' highest court appeared unlikely Monday to strike down ballot proposals to reinvent app-based drivers' relationships with Uber, Lyft and the like, commenting that the scattershot ideas for voters in March all carry the underlying theme of creating a carveout from the state's worker-friendly employee classification law.
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May 06, 2024
An Illinois federal judge should compel a Midwestern bakery workers union to rerun a 2023 officer election because it didn't properly update its members' addresses before sending out ballots, the U.S. Department of Labor has claimed in a new lawsuit against the union.
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May 06, 2024
A Starbucks worker in Michigan can't proceed with a bid to oust the Workers United union, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, finding that pending refusal-to-bargain claims block the petition from moving ahead for now.
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May 06, 2024
A Nebraska electrical contractor improperly withheld wage information from an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, with one member writing that he would be open to a remedy requiring that employers let NLRB agents train workers on their labor rights.
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May 06, 2024
The College Football Players Association will meet this week with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to craft legislation that gives athletes certain worker protections and collective bargaining rights but stops short of classifying them as full employees, the organization said Monday.
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May 06, 2024
Fisher Phillips LLP is building out its New Jersey presence with the addition of a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP labor and employment partner coming aboard as of counsel.
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May 03, 2024
Two cruise ship contractors and a union pension fund told a Louisiana federal judge Friday that they're winding down their dispute over the contractors' $2.8 million debt to the fund, asking him to toss the case but let them reopen it if they can't settle the last outstanding issue.
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May 03, 2024
A handful of recent decisions out of the National Labor Relations Board offer employers a reminder that they may risk labor lawsuits if they probe workers' conversations with colleagues or unions to bolster their cases in wage suits, challenges to union elections and other litigation.
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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, a federal magistrate judge will consider whether to grant class certification to New York income tax preparers who claim they were denied overtime pay due to their employer's practice of paying them on commissions. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 03, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit a former flight attendant lodged against Spirit Airlines accusing it of firing her after she complained that its medical leave policies ran afoul of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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May 03, 2024
President Joe Biden vetoed a congressional resolution to block an enjoined National Labor Relations Board rule treating more employers as joint employers Friday, following through on an earlier threat to shoot down the measure.
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May 03, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board judge said a home remodeler's social media policy violated federal labor law under the board's revised standards, but nonetheless tossed a worker's challenge to the policy because it's unfair to apply the new standard retroactively.
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May 03, 2024
A New York City waiter's participation in a staff walkout partially motivated his managers' decision to fire him about three months later, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, deeming the firing illegal and ordering the restaurant to rehire him with back pay.
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May 03, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments before the California Supreme Court on the issue of the right of workers bringing a case under the state's Private Attorneys General Act to intervene in a separate matter. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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May 03, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board has upheld an agency judge's decision to greenlight a redo of a union representation election at a New Jersey waste management company, finding the company tainted the first election by creating the impression that the union's presence was interfering with an upcoming raise.
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May 02, 2024
Two orchestra musicians represented by an American Federation of Musicians local accused their union in New York federal court of breaching its duty of fair representation by not enforcing an arbitration award after the duo was suspended based on allegations from years ago.
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May 02, 2024
A Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday paused an ongoing National Labor Relations Board suit against SpaceX to consider the company's challenge to what it calls the "effective" denial of its bid to block a suit by an agency it claims is unconstitutional.
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May 02, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by delaying its response to Workers United's request for information about temporary closures of a New Jersey store, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday.
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May 02, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board backed dismissals of decertification petitions from Starbucks workers at two stores, with the board's lone Republican member noting the consideration of delays in processing unfair labor practice cases when weighing the toss of ouster bids.
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May 02, 2024
North Carolina Democrats have proposed broad legislation to bolster protections for employees in the Tar Heel State — from abolishing at-will employment to repealing the ban on collective bargaining for public employees and shoring up safeguards for contract workers.
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May 02, 2024
Kaiser Permanente violated federal labor law by getting a restraining order against a longtime building engineer who helped lead a 2021 strike, calling the police when he showed back up to the picket line and ultimately firing him, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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May 01, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law by making public predictions that workers looking to unionize would be "better off not doing so," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, but determined Jassy's comments that unionization would change workers' relationship with the company were lawful.
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May 01, 2024
A California federal judge ordered Trader Joe's to pay $112,622 in attorney fees to a union of its employees in a suit alleging the union's logo infringes the grocer's name and trademarks, saying Trader Joe's claim that the suit is unrelated to a labor dispute "cannot be taken seriously."
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May 01, 2024
The Second Circuit will be asked to revive a 401(k) mismanagement suit against Deloitte, the Sixth Circuit will consider whether to force arbitration of a 401(k) fee suit against two automotive companies, and the Seventh Circuit will review the U.S. Department of Labor's court-ordered takeover of a multiemployer benefit fund. Here, Law360 looks at five appellate arguments benefits attorneys will want to keep an eye on this month.
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May 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board attorneys requested a federal court injunction to make a Michigan hospital bargain with a Service Employees International Union affiliate, alleging the hospital aided decertification efforts and withdrew recognition from the union.