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March 11, 2024
President Joe Biden proposed a bump in the National Labor Relations Board's budget to $320 million for the following fiscal year, the White House revealed Monday, presenting another potential increase for the board and "significantly increasing penalties for employers."
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March 11, 2024
Microsoft recognized the Communications Workers of America as the representative of Activision quality assurance employees following a vote count, the union announced, highlighting the parties' agreement that the tech giant remain neutral during organizing campaigns.
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March 09, 2024
A Texas federal judge late Friday struck down a 2023 National Labor Relations Board rule that made it harder for employers to show they are not joint employers, restoring a Trump-era rule that eased the test.
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March 08, 2024
An attorney for an anti-union think tank urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to revive a pair of lawsuits alleging his public sector employee clients' constitutional rights were violated by union dues being collected against their will, likening the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2018 Janus ruling.
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March 08, 2024
An aircraft mechanics union has asked a Washington federal judge to back an arbitration board's decision ordering Alaska Airlines to reinstate a unionized worker who testified positive for marijuana, saying the award was properly based on the parties' labor contract.
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March 08, 2024
A recent vote by the Dartmouth College men's basketball team to form a union could set the stage for the next round of litigation in shaping the rights of collegiate athletes, but experts told Law360 some steep obstacles could stand in the way of a breakthrough ruling that turns student athletes into full-fledged employees.
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March 08, 2024
The Communications Workers of America-affiliated Alphabet Workers Union said Friday it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Google and Cognizant, accusing them of laying off YouTube Music's union-represented content operations team in retaliation for organizing.
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March 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a worker's LinkedIn message complaining about wages to a customer is protected under federal labor law, the board argued, challenging a logistics company's claims that the worker was lawfully fired.
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March 08, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, Dartmouth College men's basketball players vote to unionize over the school's objections, a probe into Iowa State University athletes' gambling activities fizzles amid warrantless search allegations, and a Wimbledon champion gets her doping suspension reduced. If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.
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March 08, 2024
The Seventh Circuit should allow an injunction ousting two trustees from a fraud-plagued union benefit fund to take effect, the U.S. Department of Labor told the court, urging it to deny the trustees' bid to stay the injunction.
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March 08, 2024
A Colorado state judge has ruled that a personal injury firm that sued a former attorney for allegedly trying to dodge a prior judgment must face her counterclaim accusing the firm of filing a retaliatory action after she accused it of unfair labor practices.
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March 08, 2024
A California metalworkers' pension plan and its fund manager agreed to end a proposed class action alleging over two dozen retirees had their pension payments slashed even though they were promised full benefits when they retired early, according to an order issued Friday in federal court.
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March 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit must reconsider its decision over the transfer of SpaceX's National Labor Relations Board constitutionality challenge from Texas to California, the rocket company argued, saying the appeals court has to fix the lower court's incorrect application of a venue standard.
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March 08, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a potential ruling on a bid to dismiss part of a former Apple executive's age discrimination lawsuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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March 08, 2024
A Black longshoreman can move forward with a discrimination suit against his union and a company that staffs the Port of Baltimore, a Maryland federal judge ruled, trimming a few time-barred claims but keeping a significant chunk of the litigation alive.
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March 07, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday during his third State of the Union address celebrated rising wages for workers, while urging Congress to raise the federal minimum wage and pass labor legislation.
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March 07, 2024
Washington's highest court has rejected three unions' request for justices to decide how private employers may respond when they erroneously overpay employees, clearing the way for a jury to hear the case contesting a healthcare system's wage clawback after its payroll system was hit by a cyberattack.
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March 07, 2024
Two Hallmark movie production companies violated federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, with one firing nine strikers and threatening to move to Canada and another interrogating and silencing a worker amid a union drive.
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March 07, 2024
A chemical manufacturer has asked a Texas federal court to undo an arbitration award in favor of a former employee accused of using his union to gain confidential information from the company's investigation into his behavior, saying the arbitrator "fashioned a legal standard that makes it nearly impossible" for companies to monitor workplace investigations.
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March 07, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld on Thursday a National Labor Relations Board ruling finding a Texas home health company unlawfully fired a nurse who raised concerns about the company's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, but cleared the company on the claim that it barred workers from discussing wages.
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March 07, 2024
The city of New York must face the bulk of a group of unionized workers' claims that they were illegally denied raises after assuming new positions, as a New York federal judge ruled that the workers had constitutional rights to timely pay and union association.
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March 07, 2024
A luxury electric carmaker settled a claim over the lawfulness of a nondisparagement clause in its severance agreement, a National Labor Relations Board spokesperson said Thursday, with the company agreeing to post a notice about workers' rights.
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March 07, 2024
Over the past year, Julie Su has served as acting labor secretary while also awaiting Senate confirmation to continue leading the U.S. Department of Labor, despite Republican opposition. Su spoke with Law360 about her year as acting secretary, what’s next for the DOL and her prolonged Senate confirmation fight.
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March 07, 2024
A district court doesn't have jurisdiction over the Teamsters' challenge to prehire employment agreements with two airlines providing for incentive payments to newly hired pilots, an Indiana federal judge ruled, saying the parties' collective bargaining agreements arguably give the companies the right to issue the incentives.
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March 07, 2024
Workers represented by the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters may install shower door enclosures at a Boston project site, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, rejecting two International Union of Painters and Allied Trades affiliates' claims that the disputed work should go to their members.