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September 28, 2026
The procedural findings underlying the National Labor Relations Board's recent repudiation of a Biden-era decision that gave workers some cover for outbursts leave some uncertainty about the board's view of the issue, and may make some precedential decisions more vulnerable to challenge.
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September 28, 2026
A billion-dollar dairy cooperative that is trying to shutter a century-old creamery in Vermont cannot revoke the staff's health insurance until it resolves a dispute with a Teamsters local over whether the shutdown is lawful, a state federal judge ruled Monday, partially granting the union's request for an injunction.
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September 28, 2026
The Second Circuit on Monday rejected a former United Airlines employee's bid to force arbitration of a grievance over his firing after a Teamsters local declined to pursue it, ruling that the worker waived his right to pursue the grievance on his own.
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September 28, 2026
An energy company urged the National Labor Relations Board to review a regional director's decision to certify an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local as the representative for a unit of its employees in Illinois, claiming it's "high time" for the board to reconsider a long-standing certification standard.
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September 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board should give its regional directors guidance on when they may schedule a union decertification election at an employer that stands accused of violating federal labor law, Republican board member Scott Mayer said in a footnote to a recent decision.
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September 25, 2026
The Fifth Circuit should toss an AT&T retailer's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on broad nondisclosure agreements in severance pacts, the agency said Friday, fighting the company's argument that gag rules should be considered lawful unless the employer's enforcement of them would violate labor law.
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September 25, 2026
A recent National Labor Relations Board decision finding that documents covered by attorney-client privilege do not need to be disclosed in union information requests could increase litigation over privilege claims at the board and affect how employers approach grievance arbitration, experts said.
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September 25, 2026
Railroad industry groups are asking the Eleventh Circuit to hold an en banc rehearing after a split panel rejected their challenge to a 2024 Federal Railroad Administration rule requiring two-person train crews, saying the panel's decision expands agency authority and goes against Supreme Court precedent.
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September 25, 2026
A coalition of labor unions and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed to settle claims in a dispute challenging the layoffs of federal employees that occurred during the 2025 government shutdown, according to an agreement filed by the parties.
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September 25, 2026
Spirit Airlines' flight attendants' union has told a New York bankruptcy judge that the bankrupt airline has reduced the amount of business data it's proposing to sell to Google for artificial intelligence training, but the files still might include data protected by the union's contract.
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September 25, 2026
A western unit of the American Automobile Association violated federal labor law by bargaining in bad faith with its workers' union, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, saying the company employed dishonest tactics such as going back on an agreement and proposing a dramatic pay cut.
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September 25, 2026
A group of unions and workers' rights advocates has asked the Second Circuit to lift the block on a municipal ordinance banning Uber and Lyft from kicking drivers out of the app without a formal notice or an investigation, claiming the district court was wrong to stop the law.
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September 25, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Aya Healthcare Services Inc.'s attempt to revive a motion to compel arbitration in a wage and hour suit by travel clinicians. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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September 25, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a suit brought by former employees with the Orange County, New York, Sheriff's Office who claim they were fired because they supported the sheriff's opponent in an election.
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September 24, 2026
Illinois Supreme Court justices wrestled Thursday with whether the city of Chicago's history of publicly adjudicating allegations of the most serious police misconduct can establish a statewide public policy requiring open proceedings, while questioning a city police union on why transparency and promoting trust in law enforcement don't justify public attendance.
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September 24, 2026
A New York federal judge gave Novartis permanent relief from a proposed class action alleging it monopolistically delayed generic competition for its blockbuster heart failure drug Entresto, concluding that the drugmaker properly used a patent to ensure exclusivity.
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September 24, 2026
A Nevada federal judge has tossed a casino operator's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure, ruling that the operator failed to show sufficient harm stemming from removal protections for NLRB members and the board's administrative law judges.
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September 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split on whether actuaries must use up-to-date life expectancies when converting pension benefits from one form to another, Kellogg argued, asking the justices to scrap the Sixth Circuit's answer to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act query.
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September 24, 2026
A New York magistrate judge on Thursday recommended rejecting a bid to block the state from imposing a union contract covering agricultural workers at three farms, ruling the farms fell short in showing a likelihood of success on their claims or of irreparable harm.
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September 24, 2026
Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has tapped Cooley LLP's deputy general counsel to serve as its legal leader, the firm announced Thursday.
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September 24, 2026
Big companies will increase their litigation budgets yet again next year, as navigating legal risk is now an essential element of achieving strategic business goals, according to a new report.
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September 23, 2026
The Seventh Circuit recently established how to credit employers for a previous partial withdrawal from a multiemployer pension fund when calculating liability for a complete exit, resulting in a split with the Ninth and Eleventh circuits and raising the likelihood the issue could eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys said.
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September 23, 2026
Employers do not need to disclose communications protected by attorney-client privilege to unions as part of information requests, the National Labor Relations Board held Wednesday, saying a balancing test that typically determines the release of confidential information doesn't apply to such documents.
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September 23, 2026
A Texas pizzeria must bargain with a union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative for a unit of its employees, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday, handing out a decision that will allow the company to challenge the board's certification of the union in a federal appeals court.
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September 23, 2026
A billion-dollar dairy cooperative that is trying to close a century-old creamery in Vermont shouldn't be allowed to revoke the staff's health insurance while the staff's union argues that the shutdown is unlawful, the Teamsters local representing the creamery's workers argued, seeking an injunction in Vermont federal court.