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May 09, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge should toss a renewed challenge to the Trump administration's resignation incentive program for the same reasons he tossed it before, the government argued, saying the union-brought challenge is doomed because of standing issues and because it belongs before an agency, not a federal judge.
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May 09, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider social media platform X's attempt to reverse a lower court order requiring it to pay fees for arbitration proceedings with employees who claim they were not paid the full amount of severance they were owed. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 09, 2025
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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May 09, 2025
A New York federal court deemed an arbitration award of about $895,000 valid against a construction company that failed to comply with an audit required under a collective bargaining agreement with the New York City District Council of Carpenters.
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May 09, 2025
Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
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May 09, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board defended its decision finding Nexstar Media Inc. shift leads in Denver are statutory employees who can unionize, telling the Fifth Circuit to nix the company's challenge to a union's certification and its objections to a representation election.
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May 09, 2025
Employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips has launched a Tokyo office in response to increasing client demand from American and multinational companies doing business in Japan and from Japanese companies doing business in the Americas.
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May 09, 2025
The D.C. Circuit doesn't need to rethink its finding that a company violated federal labor law by snubbing a union after acquiring a Puerto Rico hospital, the AFL-CIO has argued, fighting the company's challenge to both its loss and the National Labor Relations Board's successor bar doctrine.
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May 09, 2025
The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.
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May 09, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial approval of a $7.2 million deal in a proposed wage and hour class action against Marathon Refining Logistics Services and related companies. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 09, 2025
Justice David Souter, who saw the high court as a moderating force apart from the messiness of politics, subverted the expectations of liberals and conservatives alike during his 19 years on the bench.
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May 09, 2025
Retired Justice David H. Souter, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at 85, the court announced Friday.
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May 08, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday held that a lower court overstepped by ordering several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" following a flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit, finding that the training wouldn't benefit the flight attendant or persuade Southwest to comply with an earlier order.
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May 08, 2025
If a United Food and Commercial Workers local wants to accuse King Soopers of violating a post-strike agreement, the union must take its argument to the National Labor Relations Board, the Kroger-owned grocery chain told a Colorado federal judge Thursday, asking her to throw the allegation out of federal court.
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May 08, 2025
The Trump administration defended what it says is a lawful executive order looking to reorganize agencies and terminate workers, telling a California federal judge that unions, nonprofits and local governments "waited far too long" to seek a temporary restraining order.
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May 08, 2025
The en banc D.C. Circuit on Wednesday restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while the Trump administration appeals a lower court ruling blocking cuts to the agency that oversees Voice of America.
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May 08, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday appeared open to reviving suits against Kellogg and FedEx from married pensioners who alleged their employers' outdated actuarial assumptions shortchanged their joint-and-survivor benefits, with multiple judges seeming to doubt a lower court's assertion that employers had unfettered latitude when choosing what data to use.
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May 08, 2025
Nexstar Media Group Inc. challenged the certification of a union representing NewsNation workers, claiming the National Labor Relations Board's ban on what are known as captive audience meetings violated the company's First Amendment rights and unfairly influenced the vote's outcome.
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May 08, 2025
A Massachusetts heating and plumbing company's response to an organizing drive violated federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company illegally fired five workers for union activity, told union supporters to quit, and promised workers better job assignments if they opposed the union.
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May 07, 2025
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that a suit challenging its sick leave settlement with Colorado is moot because a recent collective bargaining agreement between the airline and its workers in the state already applies a 2020 law.
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May 07, 2025
A United Auto Workers affiliate representing attorneys at a New York legal services organization violated federal laws when the union thwarted antisemitism measures in the workplace, a nonprofit alleged Wednesday in announcing charges it filed at the National Labor Relations Board and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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May 07, 2025
The mostly stable jurisdictional lines between the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board are in flux as the NLRB seeks the NMB's take on which agency should oversee SpaceX and the airline industry deals with an abrupt shift in the federal labor overseers' treatment of contractors.
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May 07, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official has tossed a worker's petition to decertify a union representing workers at a Minnesota glass company, saying a settlement between the company and union in a separate case prevents the election from going forward.
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May 07, 2025
Amazon did not violate federal labor law by firing a union supporter and unilaterally changing certain policies about cellphone use and COVID-19 tests at a New York warehouse, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while finding the company illegally denied union representation during investigatory interviews.
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May 07, 2025
The United Steelworkers violated federal labor law by resolving a member's grievance in a manner that caused another member to be demoted, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, ordering the union to pursue another grievance on behalf of the demoted member.