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December 15, 2025
A Washington federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines of understaffing that forced workers to miss meal and rest breaks, ruling on Monday that the plaintiff's "bare-bones allegations" were insufficient to allow the suit to proceed.
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December 15, 2025
The full Fifth Circuit declined to reconsider a panel decision to back a National Labor Relations Board order requiring Nexstar to start bargaining with a newly installed Communications Workers of America affiliate at two of its Denver television stations.
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December 15, 2025
The United Food & Commercial Workers asked a D.C. federal judge to toss two union members' challenge to the union's system of allocating convention delegates, saying the system complies with federal labor law and the members should challenge it at the convention if they want to change it.
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December 15, 2025
UPS "played the Grinch" by failing to pay seasonal workers it hires between October and January for work they performed outside their shifts, leading to millions in unpaid wages and overtime, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Monday.
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December 12, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel based its decision to uphold Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris' firing on a mischaracterization of the agency, Harris argued Friday to the full D.C. Circuit, asking the en banc court to override the decision, bring her back to work and preserve MSPB members' job protections.
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December 12, 2025
A Nevada federal judge Thursday froze a proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts, giving the airline and the former workers behind the suit a chance to try and reach a deal.
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December 12, 2025
A Michigan healthcare staffing company violated federal labor law by requiring its phlebotomists to sign employment agreements containing overly broad and restrictive provisions, a National Labor Relations Board judge has determined.
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December 12, 2025
A California federal judge should follow his New York colleague's lead and hold that states likely cannot let their labor boards fill the National Labor Relations Board's shoes if the NLRB is faltering, the NLRB argued, saying "profound labor relations instability" could result if courts begin endorsing such laws.
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December 12, 2025
A Second Circuit panel vacated a $100,000 charging lien awarded to an attorney who represented a man who sued Marriott International Inc. for race-based harassment, agreeing that the lawyer was fired without cause but finding that the lower court appeared not to address several arguments in favor of a lower amount.
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December 12, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit signaled it may be willing to change its precedent to make it easier for federal benefits lawsuits to get to the courthouse door, while the Second Circuit shut down a challenge to a union pension plan's private equity investment emphasis. Here's a look back at these and two other significant Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation developments from the latter half of 2025 that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.
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December 11, 2025
An administrative law judge has determined that Starbucks didn't violate the National Labor Relations Act when it surveilled employees' union activities, more strictly enforced its punctuality policy and disciplined a union employee at a store that illegally fired seven activists in 2022.
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December 11, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge said Thursday she won't lift a deadline to bid on a railway-construction project associated with building a new tunnel to New York City, saying a New Jersey construction company isn't likely to win its challenge to a project labor agreement tied to the venture.
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December 11, 2025
Labor attorneys have spent the last year in a holding pattern as they counsel clients on dealing with a National Labor Relations Board that has gone the bulk of 2025 without enough members to decide cases.
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December 11, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case about federal jurisdiction over the final say on arbitration awards is a technical battleground that may reaffirm state court power over such agreements, including those involving wage and hour claims, experts say.
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December 11, 2025
The Railway Labor Act doesn't give airline workers the right to compel arbitration against their employers before a System Board of Adjustment if their union isn't representing them, a New York federal judge ruled, tossing a fired United Airlines technician's bid to compel arbitration without a Teamsters local's involvement.
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December 11, 2025
A cannabis company is urging a New Jersey federal court to pause an upcoming arbitration proceeding with a United Food and Commercial Workers local over its firing of several employees, claiming that it had been coerced into entering an agreement with the union by an unconstitutional state law.
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December 10, 2025
The U.S. solicitor general and the solicitor of labor said the U.S. Supreme Court needs to clarify that workers must back their suits targeting underperforming retirement funds with proper comparison proof, urging the justices to take up a case taking aim at Parker-Hannifin Corp.'s retirement plan management.
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December 10, 2025
A D.C. federal judge declined to immediately reinstate collective bargaining agreements for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and National Weather Service employees Wednesday, saying the case brought by the workers was more "complicated" and "difficult" than other federal worker bargaining suits he'd recently enjoined.
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December 10, 2025
The Association of Flight Attendants must keep facing allegations that it conspired with SkyWest workers to access confidential information held by SkyWest's employee group during an organizing drive, a Utah federal judge has ruled, preserving the SkyWest Inflight Association's conspiracy counterclaims against the Communications Workers of America-affiliated union.
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December 10, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Minnesota federal court that Minneapolis Public Schools has union-negotiated rules that give employees from underrepresented backgrounds an illegal leg up when decisions about layoffs are made.
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December 10, 2025
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday probed a judge's inference that Michigan hospital workers would suffer without an order making their employer resume dealing with their union in the circuit's first National Labor Relations Board injunction case since the U.S. Supreme Court altered the courts' test last year.
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December 10, 2025
The Utah Legislature has voted to repeal a controversial bill that banned public-sector unions from collective bargaining, a move that comes after months of backlash from labor unions.
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December 10, 2025
The Fourth Circuit seemed disinclined Wednesday to reopen a dispute over lifetime retirement health and life insurance benefits from a proposed class of retired coal miners, as two judges knocked the coal company's attempt to pick apart the results of a seven-day bench trial that broadly favored them.
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December 10, 2025
A California federal judge who blocked State Department layoffs set for Dec. 5 should halt the government from dismissing any Education and State Department employees until Jan. 30, a union coalition argued, saying Congress set that timeline in its appropriations bill and the government is trying to defy it.
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December 09, 2025
A Seventh Circuit judge on Tuesday suggested Penske's push for the judicial review of trustees' internal decision-making was a "long and new stretch" in a dispute over whether a Teamsters pension plan had the power to expel a Penske bargaining unit in Dallas, questioning what law authorizes such scrutiny.