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July 01, 2025
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
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July 01, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.
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July 01, 2025
UPS must shell out a specified back pay amount ordered by an arbitration panel for a reinstated worker, a Teamsters local told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing the award clearly required the company to provide a certain amount of compensation that did not factor in unemployment benefits.
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July 01, 2025
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has limited universal injunctions, employers, workers and their advocates could have to turn to motions to vacate, associational standing and other pathways to relief in employment law litigation, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the potential impact.
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July 01, 2025
A supermarket in California lawfully fired an employee for secretly recording a colleague, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in a memorandum, determining the terminated worker's actions lost federal labor law protection.
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July 01, 2025
A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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July 01, 2025
A Georgia man hit KBR Inc. and HomeSafe Alliance LLC with a proposed class action alleging that they failed to provide notice before terminating some 200 employees after the U.S. government scrapped a moving services contract worth up to $20 billion for performance troubles.
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June 30, 2025
The Trump administration is planning to roll back a Biden-era rule that protected seasonal farmworkers on H-2A visas from facing retaliation for workplace organizing, with the U.S. Department of Labor announcing its intent to rescind the contentious 2024 rule Monday.
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June 30, 2025
A contractor operating rental car shuttle services at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and a staffing firm are joint employers of workers seeking Teamsters representation, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding the transportation company has power over some key employment terms.
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June 30, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board must order a rerun representation election at Lodi, a restaurant in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a union argued, saying an agency judge was "badly mistaken" when he concluded some federal labor violations did not warrant a second vote.
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June 30, 2025
Two chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys held practice pickets on Monday afternoon after voting to authorize a strike as members across New York City approach the end of their collective bargaining agreements.
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June 30, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official has approved an election for about 1,500 postdoctoral fellows and research assistants at the University of Pennsylvania to vote on representation by the United Auto Workers, rejecting the university's contention that they were ineligible to unionize under federal labor law.
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June 30, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a fight Monday over the correct way to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer retirement plans, granting an employer-side petition for review of a D.C. Circuit decision favoring a machinists' union.
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June 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board asked a New Jersey federal judge Friday to extend an injunction that requires a Marriott-affiliated hotel to recognize a union and reinstate six workers, saying it can't resolve an administrative case at the moment due to the board's lack of a quorum.
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June 27, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling finding George Washington University Hospital bargained in bad faith with a Service Employees International Union local, saying evidence supported the board's conclusion that the hospital did not expect its proposals to lead to an agreement.
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June 27, 2025
As uncertainty looms over the future of the federal mediation agency that employers and unions often rely on to break bargaining standoffs, a few states and private institutions are seeking to fill in the gaps with new or expanded services.
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June 27, 2025
A D.C. federal judge Friday voiced his "grave" concerns about the White House's Department of Government Efficiency obtaining personal information, but the district court declined to stop the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from giving this access.
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June 27, 2025
The Seventh Circuit on Friday affirmed a decision dismissing a Black elevator mechanic's claims that his union mishandled his firing challenge, saying the union treated him fairly by winning his case despite his qualms with its strategy.
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June 27, 2025
The NewsGuild asked the Fifth Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Starbucks sent overbroad subpoenas to two California workers, saying the subpoenas wrongfully requested communications between workers and the media.
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June 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel laid out his theory for why secretly recording parties at the negotiating table is unlawful, saying the act of taping these discussions is bad faith bargaining under federal labor law.
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June 27, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for arguments in a staffing company's renewed attempt to toss a disability discrimination case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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June 26, 2025
New York cannabis regulators fought a dispensary operator's challenge to a state law making companies sign on to labor peace agreements with unions to have a license, telling a federal judge Thursday that the business can't show harm from the pact because it doesn't have employees.
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June 26, 2025
Two Hallmark-contracted movie studios asked the Tenth Circuit to rehear a claim from the National Labor Relations Board that the studios violated federal labor laws by refusing to rehire striking employees, calling the previous panel opinion both "inconsistent" and "confusing at best."
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June 26, 2025
The Republican chairman of a House subcommittee unveiled a new iteration of a bill he said would provide a right to secret-ballot representation votes and that would bar diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in labor contracts.
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June 26, 2025
The agency that negotiates Washington state employees' union contracts can reject public records requests for bargaining-related documents until the contracts are finalized and funded, the Washington Supreme Court held in an 8-1 vote Thursday, upholding a Washington Court of Appeals decision.