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May 29, 2025
Massachusetts' highest court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit brought by a former appellate court staff attorney who said he was intentionally undermined by supervisors, finding that he had made a reasonable showing that two of the three original defendants had demonstrated actual malice toward him.
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May 29, 2025
A divided Fifth Circuit panel again blessed the National Labor Relations Board's order that supported a former acting general counsel's withdrawal of an unfair labor practice complaint against two Teamsters locals, analyzing the dispute on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 29, 2025
The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing in early June on President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration, according to a news release Thursday.
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May 28, 2025
Kevin Costner and the producers of the American West film series "Horizon" were sued in California state court by a stunt double who alleged she had to perform an impromptu, unscripted violent rape scene without an intimacy coordinator on set and other protocols under the actors' union contract.
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May 28, 2025
An Oregon federal judge's recent decision to block a state law requiring employers in the cannabis industry to reach labor peace agreements with unions could bolster challenges to similar laws in other states as the issue continues on a path experts expect to land at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 28, 2025
Two longtime members of a Service Employees International Union affiliate who served in leadership posts accused their union of unlawfully suspending them and imposing a gag order about their discipline, telling a Michigan federal judge that they weren't given a fair hearing.
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May 28, 2025
President Donald Trump has pardoned a former International Union of Operating Engineers president who was facing the prospect of six months in prison for accepting free sports tickets without disclosing their value to the U.S. Department of Labor, his attorneys told a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday.
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May 28, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board "thumb[ed] its nose" at employers' speech rights by ruling that Starbucks threatened workers and using the case to reverse precedent letting employers opine that a union would come between them and workers, the company told the Ninth Circuit.
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May 28, 2025
A social services nonprofit in California was within its rights to fire an employee who supported organizing efforts with a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, but broke the law when it told the worker union discussions must not happen in the office.
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May 27, 2025
The First Circuit quashed a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering Northeastern University in Boston to negotiate with a union representing campus police department employees, determining the board strayed from precedent when finding sergeants are not supervisors under federal labor law.
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May 27, 2025
A Washington federal judge seemed troubled by the government's February move to rip up a union deal covering Transportation Security Administration workers, but didn't tip her hand at a hearing Tuesday as to whether she thinks the American Federation of Government Employees deserves an injunction.
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May 27, 2025
A United Food and Commercial Workers local and a Colorado healthcare group affiliated with Kaiser Permanente must resolve their understaffing dispute in arbitration, a Colorado federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the evidence presented at a six-day bench trial revealed that the fight is arbitrable.
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May 27, 2025
Stellantis and a United Auto Workers affiliate representing the company's Denver parts distribution center have agreed to drop their dispute over a December strike authorization vote, according to a joint stipulation for dismissal filed by the parties in Colorado federal court.
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May 27, 2025
Connecticut's municipal employee pension system unlawfully barred a group of firefighters with over two decades of service from participating in a deferred retirement program because they're under 55 years old, the workers and their union claimed in a federal lawsuit.
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May 27, 2025
A split Fifth Circuit panel has denied the National Labor Relations Board's request to enforce a 2013 back pay order against a Louisiana plumbing company, with the majority saying it's unfair to make a mom-and-pop shop that's recovering from two floods pay out roughly $100,000 over a decade-old matter.
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May 27, 2025
United Airlines and the Teamsters can appeal a lower court order concluding that the Railway Labor Act gives individual airline employees the right to take their grievances to arbitration despite the union's objection, a California federal judge ruled, saying a Ninth Circuit ruling could end the case.
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May 27, 2025
A seasoned BigLaw attorney who left Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC five years ago to move into an in-house legal position at Vice Media has rejoined the labor and employment law firm Tuesday as a shareholder.
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May 27, 2025
A union representing 28,000 United Airlines flight attendants has struck a tentative deal with the airline on a five-year employment contract, hailing the agreement as a "historic" pact that comes with a pay bump and other benefits for its workers.
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May 23, 2025
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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May 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to endorse a freeze on the reinstatements of two fired labor officials bodes poorly for precedent permitting Congress to insulate certain agencies from presidential control, but the justices signaled that the Federal Reserve will remain above politics. Here, Law360 looks at takeaways from Thursday's ruling.
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May 23, 2025
A California federal judge has extended her block of President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, saying a coalition of unions, nonprofits and cities has shown it is likely to succeed in showing the order exceeded the president's authority.
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May 23, 2025
Cannabis company Curaleaf violated federal labor law by laying off store associates at its Illinois facilities without bargaining with their union and must reinstate them, a National Labor Relations Board judge has held.
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May 23, 2025
A Boston commuter rail operator is refusing to resume arbitrating a raise dispute with a Teamsters unit after a Massachusetts federal judge said only an arbitration board could resolve a key issue, the union said, asking the judge to clarify that his decision compelled the parties to reenter arbitration.
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May 23, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a New York speech therapist's attempt to revive her lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her race when her school district fired her in 2022. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 23, 2025
The state of Missouri urged a federal judge to reject Starbucks' bid to dismiss its suit claiming its diversity policies discriminate based on race and gender, arguing it has put forward enough evidence showing how the company's practices have harmed its citizens to keep the case in court.