A National Labor Relations Board judge misapplied a doctrine that allows for unfair labor practice findings against companies when there is no evidence of anti-union animus, a Pennsylvania metals manufacturer told the board as it challenges an agency judge's decision finding it unlawfully refused to rehire strikers.
The Connecticut Supreme Court's opinion requiring Amazon to pay warehouse workers for time spent awaiting and undergoing post-shift security screenings used basic statutory interpretation tools, not policy arguments, to reach conclusions aligned with other pro-labor laws passed by the state legislature, experts told Law360.
The Sixth Circuit recently became the first federal appellate court to rule that a law prohibiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment allegations protects the entirety of a case that includes a sexual harassment claim, a decision that experts say likely sheds light on how other circuits will decide the same issue.