U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Monday he has jurisdiction to hear claims from public-sector unions over the mass firing of probationary employees within the federal government, flipping from his position last month and splitting from federal courts that have held the claims must be processed through governing labor agencies.
President Donald Trump has nominated Crystal Carey of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to guide federal labor policy and enforcement as the National Labor Relations Board's next general counsel.
With slower case handling and a leadership crisis at the National Labor Relations Board raising questions about the agency's effectiveness, unions and employers may be able to sidestep the agency by expanding contractual grievance processes to cover some disputes the board usually handles.
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U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Monday he has jurisdiction to hear claims from public-sector unions over the mass firing of probationary employees within the federal government, flipping from his position last month and splitting from federal courts that have held the claims must be processed through governing labor agencies.
President Donald Trump has nominated Crystal Carey of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to guide federal labor policy and enforcement as the National Labor Relations Board's next general counsel.
With slower case handling and a leadership crisis at the National Labor Relations Board raising questions about the agency's effectiveness, unions and employers may be able to sidestep the agency by expanding contractual grievance processes to cover some disputes the board usually handles.
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March 25, 2025
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday said it wouldn't rethink its ruling that a Michigan construction trade group lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of a memo from the National Labor Relations Board former general counsel regarding employers' anti-union meetings.
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March 25, 2025
A divided Tenth Circuit panel concluded Tuesday that an arbitrator went beyond his powers when finding salaried employees at an HF Sinclair facility in Wyoming must be part of a bargaining unit represented by the United Steelworkers, saying the issue was not brought to arbitration by either party.
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March 25, 2025
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration urged the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday to ignore a Georgia roofing contractor's claims that it can't be on the hook for a $158,000 fine under the agency's "capricious" multiemployer citation rule, alleging the company's counsel told it to avoid being caught on the work site to dodge liability.
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March 25, 2025
A Michigan federal judge has slashed a union and claimants' lawsuit alleging the state's unemployment insurance agency improperly automatically denied or clawed back payments, finding that temporary COVID-19 pandemic assistance benefits are not constitutionally protected rights and the claimants received proper notice of an end to their benefits.
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March 25, 2025
The federal government should restore the nearly $400 million it revoked from Columbia University earlier this month, two unions told a New York federal court Tuesday, also seeking a declaration that threats to pull additional funding if the university doesn't meet certain demands violate the U.S. Constitution.
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March 25, 2025
An Amalgamated Transit Union affiliate can't amend certification for a group of workers at a Maryland transportation company, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, finding the issues raised in the case should be handled in a different proceeding.
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March 25, 2025
Hartford HealthCare Corp. says it cannot be forced to reveal a confidential January antitrust settlement with another Connecticut hospital at the behest of a Teamsters health plan and a public transit agency separately accusing the consortium of creating a monopoly.
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March 25, 2025
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will have to bargain with its reporters' union over wages and other changes in employment terms and restore healthcare, the Third Circuit ruled, partially agreeing to enforce a National Labor Relations Board ruling.
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March 24, 2025
National Labor Relations Board attorneys, citing the arrival of acting general counsel William Cowen, are abandoning exceptions seeking precedent shifts brought under the leadership of former general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, pulling arguments in cases involving Starbucks and a sprinkler installer.
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March 24, 2025
A Tennessee federal judge has signed off on a settlement that resolves antitrust litigation over the NCAA's practice of banning the use of possible name, image and likeness compensation when recruiting athletes.
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March 24, 2025
An Illinois federal judge did not abuse his discretion by failing to award attorney fees to a broadcasters union local after its fight with the national union over a trusteeship, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Monday, holding that the judge substantiated his decision.
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March 24, 2025
Two Massachusetts school districts and a coalition of public employee unions sued in federal court Monday, seeking to block the Trump administration from "dismantling" the U.S. Department of Education.
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March 24, 2025
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, arguing the band of nonprofit groups that obtained the order have no standing to challenge the firings.
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March 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Sixth Circuit decision that found a bulk food delivery contractor illegally closed a terminal in Kentucky after a union organizing drive, leaving in place the National Labor Relations Board's decision against the company.
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March 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court won't disturb rulings by the Ninth and Sixth circuits that upheld losses for a pair of employers before the National Labor Relations Board, rejecting two petitions for review Monday that invoked last year's Loper Bright decision.
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March 21, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to pause a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of probationary workers who were fired from 18 federal agencies.
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March 21, 2025
Journalists and staff with Voice of America on Friday accused their parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, of illegally firing virtually everyone with the government-funded media outlet, a move they said was because the Trump administration perceives their work to be "inconsistent" with the president's "political agenda."
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March 21, 2025
A Pennsylvania teachers union was negligent and breached its fiduciary duty in connection with a data breach that potentially exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information, a member alleged in a proposed class action, saying more than 500,000 people were impacted.
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March 21, 2025
The Second Circuit affirmed Friday an early win for a group of Teamsters local union benefit funds in a dispute against a heating oil transportation company, backing a lower court's action to force compliance with the union local's audit of contributions for covered work by the company's truck drivers.
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March 21, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' recent abandonment of ousted general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's theories in several cases is the latest phase in a continued retreat from her aggressive approach to labor litigation, experts say.
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March 21, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge let two unions and a retirees group look into any steps the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury took to give the Department of Government Efficiency access to Treasury's computer systems, saying she needs the information to evaluate the action's lawfulness.
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March 21, 2025
MGM Grand Casino said attorneys for a fired employee cannot recoup more than three times the $133,000 a Michigan federal jury awarded him earlier this year in his lawsuit alleging he was improperly denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 vaccine policy.
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March 21, 2025
A fan maker hasn't proved that removal protections for National Labor Relations Board judges and members resulted in harm to the company, the board argued in Missouri federal court, urging the judge to dismiss an amended suit aimed at stopping an unfair labor practice hearing in April.
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March 21, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will hear the National Football League's appeal of a lower court decision partially denying its bid to send former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores' racial bias suit to arbitration.
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March 21, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a ruling on a car dealership's attempt to halt National Labor Relations Board proceedings based on an argument that the board's structure is unconstitutional. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.