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June 10, 2025
Mayer Brown LLP has rehired the former co-chair of its practice focused on retirement benefit matters, who returns to the firm after helping to lead a team of attorneys at Fidelity Investments responsible for health and retirement plan litigation.
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June 10, 2025
A Communications Workers of America affiliate pushed the Fifth Circuit to uphold the National Labor Relations Board's bargaining order against Nexstar at two television stations in Denver, challenging the company's claims that the union unfairly swayed a representation election.
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June 10, 2025
The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board signaled Tuesday that the board may soon return to full function after months operating mostly without a quorum, saying "nominations are imminent" to fill at least some of the panel's vacancies.
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June 09, 2025
A New York federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction bid against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in a lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully disclosing employees' personal information to the Department of Government Efficiency, saying OPM granted broad access to the information despite there being no "credible need."
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June 09, 2025
A disabled pilot accused American Airlines and its third-party administrator of systematically miscalculating workers' long-term disability benefits by excluding certain forms of compensation from their monthly benefit calculations, according to a suit filed in Texas federal court.
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June 09, 2025
The acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board signaled optimism Monday that the board will be spared the ax in President Donald Trump's culling of federal agencies, saying that the administration has "treated us well."
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June 09, 2025
Three Democratic senators called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice on Monday to provide legal justification for the arrest of the president of a Service Employees International Union affiliate in California during an immigration enforcement raid last week.
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June 09, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.
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June 09, 2025
The Second Circuit ruled Monday that a doctor couldn't use a power-of-attorney arrangement to sue on behalf of a patient who said their union's health plan illegally stuck them with a $150,000 medical bill, but directed a trial court to determine if the patient can pursue the case.
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June 09, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors are seeking reinstatement for a Washington Post reporter who spoke up about a coworker's retweet that she found offensive, arguing the journalist's complaints on Slack and social media were protected under federal labor law.
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June 09, 2025
A nonprofit that supplies janitors to the city of Portland, Oregon, is challenging the city's requirement for certain city contractors to enter into labor peace agreements with unions, claiming in a new lawsuit in federal court that the rule is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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June 06, 2025
Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries cannot immediately get blocked President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the agency, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Friday, saying there is a likelihood the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.
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June 06, 2025
The American Guild of Musical Artists and the Metropolitan Opera announced Friday that the parties saw eye-to-eye on a tentative agreement for a one-year collective bargaining agreement, saying the deal includes wage hikes.
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June 06, 2025
California's labor commissioner asked a federal court Friday to toss a lawsuit challenging the state's law prohibiting so-called captive audience meetings, arguing that the nonprofit that sued to block the law lacks standing because it hasn't sufficiently alleged an injury or "a credible threat of prosecution."
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June 06, 2025
Three federal worker unions urged a Massachusetts federal judge not to toss their challenge to the president's deferred resignation offer, saying the personnel agencies the government wants to send their suit to can't decide their claims or give them a fair shake.
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June 06, 2025
A nuclear plant operator unlawfully refused to give an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local information about wages for workers the union didn't represent, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the company must still hand over the information even though the parties notched a labor contract.
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June 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday that the Department of Government Efficiency could obtain unlimited access to Social Security Administration data on millions of Americans while a legal dispute over privacy concerns plays out.
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June 06, 2025
The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that the judge's finding that almost 1,400 employees must be reinstated to ensure the department's continued operation "has no basis in reality."
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June 06, 2025
An Eighth Circuit panel will mull how federal labor law applies to workers' support for social causes Wednesday as it hears Home Depot's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that it illegally forced out a worker who wrote "BLM" on their apron. Here, Law360 breaks down what to expect from the case.
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June 06, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding the extent to which federal labor law preempts employment law claims, in a case involving UPS. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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June 06, 2025
A longtime Teamsters member in Pittsburgh urged a federal judge not to dismiss his allegations accusing the union of age discrimination and breaching its duty of fair representation when he wasn't hired to work on a Tom Hanks film, saying the claims must head to discovery.
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June 06, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an attempt from a former dean at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University to revive his suit claiming he was demoted in retaliation for advocating against widespread discrimination against students and faculty. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 05, 2025
A "sparse and self-serving" record provided by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management still shows the agency unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire probationary employees en masse, so a California federal court can reach a final decision now and "unwind" those terminations, a coalition including unions and advocacy groups said Thursday.
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June 05, 2025
An American Federation of Teachers affiliate settled a federal court case aiming to stop a Connecticut hospital from requiring nurses to work overtime, with the parties telling the judge on Thursday that they agree to dismiss the union's allegations.
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June 05, 2025
Starbucks Workers United celebrated after workers at a 600th Starbucks store voted to be represented by the union, the latest milestone in the four-year effort to organize the coffee giant.