Labor

  • November 12, 2025

    Republicans Propose Overhauling Federal Labor Law

    A package of Republican labor bills proposes overhauling how workers interact with the National Labor Relations Board and how unions organize workplaces, drawing praise from pro-business groups and criticism from unions and their advocates.

  • November 12, 2025

    2nd Circ. Doubts NLRB Dress Code Test In Starbucks Appeal

    A Second Circuit panel appeared skeptical Wednesday of the revised test underlying the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that Starbucks illegally forbade roastery workers to wear union T-shirts but appeared to buy that the agency's reviews of employers' dress codes generally deserve deference.

  • November 12, 2025

    Providence Health Nears ERISA Deal Over 401(k) Admin Costs

    Providence Health & Services has reached a tentative deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing the nonprofit healthcare system of misspending millions of dollars in forfeited employer retirement contributions in violation of federal benefits law, the parties told a Seattle federal judge.

  • November 12, 2025

    DOT Immigrant Trucker Rule Frozen Pending DC Circ. Review

    The D.C. Circuit has stayed a new U.S. Department of Transportation rule that blocks certain immigrants from driving commercial trucks or buses while it considers whether the rule is arbitrary, as workers and unions have claimed.

  • November 12, 2025

    MVP: Cohen Milstein's Christine E. Webber

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC partner Christine E. Webber helped secure more than $65 million in settlements with major institutions over allegations of gender discrimination, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.

  • November 10, 2025

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • November 10, 2025

    Justices Doubt GEO's Immunity Claim In Forced Labor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared reluctant to adopt GEO Group's interpretation of an 85-year-old ruling as extending immunity to contractors facing lawsuits, as the private prison operator stands accused of forcing immigrant detainees to clean a detention facility. 

  • November 10, 2025

    Landfill Co. Asks Court To Nix Union's Arb. Award Challenge

    An Indiana federal judge should affirm an arbitrator's finding that an engineers union missed its deadline to challenge a landfill employee's firing, the landfill's operator said, asking the judge to toss the union's attempt to revive its firing grievance.

  • November 10, 2025

    High Court Won't Hear Ore. Workers' Union Dues Policy Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court won't resurrect a challenge to an Oregon prison worker union's dues policy that was tossed by the Ninth Circuit earlier this year, according to an order list the justices filed Monday.

  • November 10, 2025

    Justices Give Feds Time To Argue In Machinists Pension Fight

    The federal government can participate in oral arguments when it hears a bid by employers to overturn a D.C. Circuit finding that an International Association of Machinists pension plan could retroactively change how withdrawal payments are calculated, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday.

  • November 10, 2025

    3rd Circ. Rules Post-Gazette Bargained In Bad Faith

    The Third Circuit on Monday affirmed that the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had been bargaining with its unions in bad faith and should not have unilaterally imposed a new contract on newsroom employees more than five years ago.

  • November 10, 2025

    Justices Won't Weigh Contractor's ULP Case Against Union

    The U.S. Supreme Court won't take up a Maryland mechanical contractor's suit accusing a Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers local of initiating a defamatory campaign against the company, the justices said Monday.

  • November 07, 2025

    Alcoa Can't Stay Benefits Injunction During 7th Circ. Appeal

    Alcoa must comply with an injunction compelling it to reinstate life insurance benefits for a group of union-represented retirees, an Indiana federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the aluminum producer's motion to stay the injunction while the Seventh Circuit considers whether to preserve it.

  • November 07, 2025

    Starbucks Union At Crossroads As Open-Ended Strike Looms

    The campaign to organize Starbucks is coming to a head after workers across hundreds of unionized stores voted to authorize an open-ended strike in hopes of reaching an elusive first contract with the coffee giant.

  • November 07, 2025

    8th Circ. Upholds EpiPen Co. Worker's Reinstatement

    The Eighth Circuit affirmed an arbitration award ordering EpiPen maker Meridian Medical to reinstate an employee accused of falsifying job training records, ruling Friday the decision doesn't violate public policy since there are no federal regulations governing auto-injector training that forbids reinstatement for a procedural training violation. 

  • November 07, 2025

    Firefighters Union Wants To Arbitrate Promotion Dispute

    The union representing a Denver Fire Department captain has asked a Colorado state court judge to force the city into arbitration hearings over a grievance the captain filed to protest the hiring of a different candidate for a vacancy within the department.

  • November 07, 2025

    Pension Corp. Installs EEOC Ex-Chair Dhillon As Director

    The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. swore in former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair and commissioner Janet Dhillon as the 17th director of the federal agency, which runs two insurance programs backstopping the nation's single and multiemployer defined-benefit pension plans.

  • November 07, 2025

    Indiana City Can't Bar Union Picketing, Teamsters Local Says

    The city of Shelbyville, Indiana, can't legally ban the Teamsters from picketing on the sidewalk outside a casino, a union local said in a complaint, asking a federal judge to forbid the city from sending in cops to scuttle the picket.

  • November 06, 2025

    Attys Spar Over Dismissal Motion In Nurse Strike Pay Suit

    A Colorado federal judge on Thursday questioned the parties on both sides of a complaint in determining if it has enough details to move forward in the lawsuit from nearly 40 nurses who claim they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike.

  • November 06, 2025

    9th Circ. Backs NLRB Ruling On Nurses' Pandemic Pay Fight

    The Ninth Circuit has affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's order finding a trio of Southern California hospitals violated federal labor law by unilaterally implementing a COVID-19 pandemic pay program without first bargaining with a Service Employees International Union affiliate representing registered nurses and professional workers. 

  • November 06, 2025

    6th Circ. Becomes Latest To Reject NLRB's Thryv Remedy

    The Sixth Circuit is the latest court to weigh in on the National Labor Relations Board's 2022 decision that employers must cover any financial hits that workers take due to company misconduct, joining the Third and Fifth circuits and opposing the Ninth Circuit in ruling that the board overstepped.

  • November 06, 2025

    Unions Decry Trump 'Loyalty Question' On Job Applications

    The Trump administration is violating federal job hopefuls' First Amendment rights and corrupting the government by asking applicants to detail their support for the president's policies, a union coalition said Thursday in a Massachusetts federal lawsuit challenging this "loyalty question."

  • November 06, 2025

    VA Union Sues Feds Over CBA Termination

    A union representing more than 300,000 employees in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have sued the federal government in Rhode Island federal court, alleging the agency's termination of the parties' collective bargaining agreement is unconstitutional. 

  • November 06, 2025

    8th Circ. OKs Home Depot Barring Worker's Display Of 'BLM'

    An Eighth Circuit panel vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Home Depot illegally forced out a worker who insisted on showing Black Lives Matter support at work, holding Thursday that social unrest at the time of their February 2021 display justified the company's caution.

  • November 05, 2025

    10th Circ. Revives Yellow's $137M Suit Against Teamsters

    The Teamsters once again must face Yellow Corp.'s allegations that the union drove the trucking company into bankruptcy by holding up a corporate restructuring, with a Tenth Circuit panel reviving Yellow's $137 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the union Wednesday.

Expert Analysis

  • Axed ALJ Removal Protections Mark Big Shift For NLRB

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    A D.C. federal court's recent decision in VHS Acquisition Subsidiary No. 7 v. National Labor Relations Board removed long-standing tenure protections for administrative law judges by finding they must be removable at will by the NLRB, marking a significant shift in the agency's ability to prosecute and adjudicate cases, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • The Future Of ALJs At NLRB And DOL Post-Jarkesy

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    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 Jarkesy ruling, several ongoing challenges to the constitutionality of the U.S. Department of Labor's and the National Labor Relations Board's administrative law judges have the potential to significantly shape the future of administrative tribunals, say attorneys at Wiley Rein.

  • Water Cooler Talk: 'Harry Potter' Reveals Magic Of Feedback

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    Troutman Pepper's Tracey Diamond and Emily Schifter chat with Wicker Park Group partner Tara Weintritt about various feedback methods used by "Harry Potter" characters — from Snape's sharp and cutting remarks to Dumbledore's lack of specificity and Hermione's poor delivery — and explore how clear, consistent and actionable feedback can transform workplaces.

  • What To Expect From Trump's Deputy Labor Secretary Pick

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    President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, Keith Sonderling, has a track record of prioritizing clear guidance on both traditional and cutting-edge issues, which can provide insight into what employers can expect from his leadership, say attorneys at Littler.

  • A Look At Order Ending Federal Contractor Affirmative Action

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    To comply with President Donald Trump's executive order revoking affirmative action requirements in the next 90 days, federal contractors should focus on identification of protected groups, responsibilities of "diversity officer" positions and annual compliance reviews, says Jeremy Burkhart at Holland & Knight.

  • The Implications Of E-Cigarette Cos. Taking Suits To 5th Circ.

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    The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds over the definition of an "adversely affected" person under the Tobacco Control Act, and the justices' ruling will have important and potentially wide-ranging implications for forum shopping claims, says Trillium Chang at Zuckerman Spaeder.

  • 4 Employment Law Areas Set To Change Under Trump

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    President Donald Trump's second term is expected to bring significant changes to the U.S. employment law landscape, including the potential for updated worker classification regulations, and challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion that are already taking shape, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • 10 Key Worker-Friendly California Employment Law Updates

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    New employment laws in California expand employee rights, transparency and enforcement mechanisms, and failing to educate department managers on these changes could put employers at risk, says Melanie Ronen at Stradley Ronon.

  • 7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

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    A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights and avoid legal responsibility shines a light on seven unique contractual provisions that violate federal labor laws, and face agressive litigation from the labor solicitor, says Thomas Starks at Freeman Mathis.

  • How Trump Presidency May Influence NLRB's Next Phase

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    Attorneys at Paul Hastings discuss how last year’s key National Labor Relations Board developments may progress once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, including the wave of lawsuits challenging the board’s constitutionality and two landmark board decisions that upset decades of precedent.

  • How Trump Admin May Approach AI In The Workplace

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    Key indicators suggest that the incoming Trump administration will adopt a deregulatory approach to artificial intelligence, allowing states to fill the void, so it is critical that employers pay close attention to developing legal authority concerning AI tools, say attorneys at Littler.

  • Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs

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    General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.

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