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April 03, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors accused Trader Joe's of violating federal labor law by threatening and interrogating workers in the midst of an organizing drive at a California store, according to a complaint obtained by Law360 on Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
A pair of construction industry trade groups urged a Texas federal court to preserve their challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor rule that revises prevailing wage calculations for federally funded projects, arguing that the rule injures both them and the firms they represent.
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April 03, 2024
A Third Circuit judge on Wednesday wondered whether a former Philadelphia mayor's order requiring contractors to pay dues to "city-approved" unions was now moot, given the new administration's assurances that it won't be implemented, as contractors urged the court to find that the scrapped rule should be banned by law.
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April 03, 2024
Contractors performing construction, alteration or repair work on government buildings should have to give the U.S. Department of Labor more detailed information about the deductions they take from workers' wages, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general told the agency in a letter publicized Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
A theatrical production company can't assert confidentiality to duck information requests from Actors' Equity Association, the National Labor Relations Board told the Second Circuit, urging it to affirm a board decision finding that the company unlawfully refused to provide financial details.
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April 03, 2024
A Walgreens in Oregon that closed its pharmacy the day its pharmacist and pharmacy technicians announced their union organizing campaign doesn't have to hold a union representation election, a National Labor Relations Board official said, saying the union can request an election again if the pharmacy reopens.
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April 02, 2024
The Third Circuit this month will consider Keystone Coal Mining Co.'s contention that a lower court erred in deeming a miner's black lung a "total disability," while a shuttered rehabilitation facility has asked the court to undo the National Labor Relations Board's determination that it owes unionized employees back pay and bonuses for work done during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 02, 2024
Southern state legislatures recently have shown an interest in bills that would bar businesses that receive state economic incentives from voluntarily recognizing unions based on authorization cards, and experts expect the concept to spread even as questions remain about whether such measures are preempted by federal labor law.
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April 02, 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration on Tuesday finalized a rule requiring freight trains to be operated with at least two people, forging ahead with a mandate long supported by rail workers' unions and safety advocates, but one that major rail carriers have decried as unnecessary and costly.
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April 02, 2024
A worker requested attorney fees and costs as a make-whole remedy in an unfair labor practice case in which the NLRB's general counsel pushed for broadened relief in work rule disputes, arguing that he had to hire private counsel in his challenge to a mortgage lender's employment agreement.
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April 02, 2024
A former Harvard Business School professor who was denied tenure after his angry emails to a restaurant went viral was among the winners from a slate of recent Massachusetts state court decisions, which also addressed claims about "forever chemicals" in firefighting gear and a popular gym shut down during the pandemic.
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April 02, 2024
A Michigan federal judge stood firm on his decision to send a roughly $40 million dispute between a demolition company and a union pension fund back to an arbitrator, rejecting the company's bid for him to reconsider his opinion.
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April 02, 2024
A California state lawmaker has introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that would give workers the right to ignore emails, text messages and phone calls from their employers after they clock out.
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April 02, 2024
A group of labor law professors defended the National Labor Relations Board's ability to dodge certain injunction requirements placed on private parties in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, recommending the justices side with the agency over Starbucks in a dispute about how the NLRB obtains injunctions.
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April 02, 2024
A plastics manufacturer called on the Third Circuit to uphold an arbitration award that denied reinstatement to a fired worker in Delaware, contending that the arbitrator correctly used an evidentiary doctrine to block a rehire remedy because the company found out the worker was intoxicated after his termination.
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April 02, 2024
One of the attorneys representing a proposed class of Philadelphia Uber drivers in their wage suit against the company left the Steel City's Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP for the new New Jersey office of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, his co-counsel in the ride-hailing case.
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April 01, 2024
Workers United and a fired Starbucks employee must comply with subpoenas seeking information about workers' sentiments toward the union at a Long Island cafe following the worker's termination, a New York magistrate judge ruled, finding no confidentiality concerns.
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April 01, 2024
A bankrupt coal company's affiliates have dodged claims that they owe $6.5 billion to a union pension plan, with a Washington, D.C., federal judge holding that the plan's trustees lacked standing to sue under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because one trustee wasn't properly appointed.
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April 01, 2024
Conservative media personality Steven Crowder was hit with a National Labor Relations Board charge alleging he's leaning on an illegal separation agreement in a suit to stop an ex-producer from speaking out about him.
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April 01, 2024
A Christian postal worker who claimed he was unlawfully punished for seeking Sundays off should lose his religious bias case under the standard the U.S. Supreme Court set when it revived his case in 2023, a letter carriers union told a Pennsylvania federal judge.
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April 01, 2024
Carlton Fields PA has added a labor and employment attorney from Stearns Weaver Miller as of counsel in its Tampa office, the firm announced Monday.
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April 01, 2024
Workers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are entitled to perform certain work at a port terminal in Seattle, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, rejecting the International Association of Machinists' bid for its members to take on the work.
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April 01, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official denied a petition from an Office and Professional Employees International Union affiliate to hold an election to represent workers at a consulting firm, saying the characteristics of workers who would be included and excluded from the proposed bargaining unit aren't clearly delineated.
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April 01, 2024
The president of UNITE HERE has stepped down after 11 years of leading a union that represents 300,000 workers, the union announced Monday.
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April 01, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has hired a more than 20-year veteran of the National Association of Home Builders' in-house legal department to bolster its expertise counseling employers on construction liability, regulatory compliance and related matters, the firm recently announced.