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May 15, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel expressed skepticism Thursday that it had any role in deciding two Starbucks workers' challenge to job protections for National Labor Relations Board members now that the agency agrees with the baristas' argument.
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May 15, 2025
Four local governments and a public sector union must go to the Court of Federal Claims if they want to accuse the Trump administration of improperly canceling public health grants issued during the pandemic, the administration told a Washington, D.C., federal judge, in fighting their injunction bid.
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May 14, 2025
Unions representing employees in the nursing, education, mining and manufacturing industries on Wednesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C., federal court over efforts to gut an agency tasked with protecting workers' health and safety.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has no reason to lift a ban on the Department of Government Efficiency accessing Social Security data, four unions argued in an amicus brief, backing two other unions in their bid to protect the injunction from the Trump administration's bid to defeat it.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. State Department can't carry out President Donald Trump's executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding the American Foreign Service Association is likely to show the directive went beyond the president's powers.
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May 14, 2025
General Motors and United Auto Workers failed to step in after a Black employee complained that a white colleague began stalking her after she started dating her ex-boyfriend and instead forced the Black worker to move departments, a lawsuit filed in New York federal court said.
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May 14, 2025
Two trade groups for apartment owners requested that federal officials eliminate COVID-19-era eviction restrictions and a framework for accepting emotional support animals, as well as undo appliance efficiency standards, union wage rates and other policies the groups say are holding back multifamily development.
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May 14, 2025
The U.S. Postal Service violated federal labor law by withholding disciplinary records that a union needed to resolve a grievance at a facility in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, ordering the Postal Service to hand over the records within two weeks.
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May 14, 2025
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and one of its locals urged an Alaska federal court to toss a pilot's bid to send his claims of unjust firing in front of a commercial airline board for arbitration purposes, saying the Railway Labor Act doesn't give airline employees that option.
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May 14, 2025
Employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips announced Tuesday the opening of a new six-attorney office in Birmingham, Alabama, its second office opening this month.
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May 14, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit must uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the board lacked jurisdiction over a Florida Catholic university, the NLRB argued, saying the university met an analysis under agency precedent for deciding whether a school is a religious institution exempt from federal labor law.
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May 13, 2025
Federal workers' unions have filed numerous lawsuits challenging actions President Donald Trump has taken to cut federal jobs and limit bargaining rights for federal employees, but experts said labor organizations will need tactics outside the courtroom to respond to arguably the most unfavorable climate they have experienced in decades.
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May 13, 2025
A medical school in Nashville, Tennessee, hasn't proven it is likely to win on allegations attacking the constitutionality of National Labor Relations Board proceedings, a Tennessee federal judge ruled, finding U.S. Supreme Court precedents uphold removal protections for board members and resolve a Seventh Amendment claim.
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May 13, 2025
The legal advocacy group Democracy Forward has brought on four former U.S. Department of Justice litigators, adding to a string of hires the organization has made from the federal government as it takes on the Trump administration in court.
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May 13, 2025
The Fifth Circuit should stand by its decision that the National Labor Relations Board correctly vacated Exxon Mobil's win in an agency case after learning that a board member who presided over the litigation had a stake in the company, the agency told the appellate court.
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May 13, 2025
Federal prosecutors requested a six-month prison sentence for a former International Union of Operating Engineers general president after he pled guilty to failure to disclose $315,000 worth of event tickets and additional benefits in annual reports to the U.S. Department of Labor, while the ex-union leader sought probation.
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May 12, 2025
A union representing employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the D.C. Circuit to keep in place a lower court injunction barring the agency from stopping work and firing staff, asserting ahead of oral arguments this week that the Trump administration is trying to "place the executive branch above the law."
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May 12, 2025
The United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Workers of America agreed to drop its claim that the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency violated an agreement to better investigate potentially fraudulent claims as long as the agency takes steps to comply with the deal.
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May 12, 2025
A new position helping with medical imaging at a Pennsylvania hospital must stay in a bargaining unit represented by the United Steelworkers, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded Monday, tossing the hospital's argument that a Service Employees International Union affiliate should represent this role.
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May 12, 2025
The choice of the name Leo XIV signals the new pope intends to make workers' rights a pillar of his papacy as the rise of artificial intelligence presages a workplace shake-up like that of the manufacturing revolution under the last pope to bear the moniker.
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May 12, 2025
Two unions and an advocacy group argued Monday that there's no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to make it easier for the Department of Government Efficiency to access the Social Security Administration's data on millions of Americans, claiming requiring the supposed fraud-busting team to follow protocol doesn't constitute an emergency.
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May 12, 2025
A group of retirees and unions asked an Indiana federal judge not to pause his order requiring Alcoa USA Corp. to reinstate lifetime healthcare benefits, arguing the company isn't likely to win at the Seventh Circuit and delaying the district court's decision harms elderly class members.
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May 12, 2025
The Teamsters and the International Association of Machinists are challenging a bankruptcy court's finding that Yellow Corp. is not liable for failing to tell 22,000 union workers they were about to lose their jobs because the company was folding, asking a Delaware federal judge to reverse the ruling.
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May 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC is growing its West Coast ranks, bringing in a Best Best & Krieger LLP litigator as a principal in its San Diego office.