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November 20, 2025
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette urged the Third Circuit to pause its obligation to restore workers' union healthcare plan while it challenges a recent ruling that its shift to a company plan violated federal labor law, saying the order threatens to impose costs it can't recover if it wins its challenge.
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November 20, 2025
Federal workers' unions asked a Massachusetts federal judge to block the federal government from asking potential hires how they'd help advance President Donald Trump's policy goals, saying that what they call the loyalty question is part of the administration's attempt to snub nonpartisan civil servants in favor of ideologues.
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November 19, 2025
A bipartisan collection of current and former government officials has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, claiming the precedent has roots that date back to the country's founding and reflects key separation of powers principles.
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November 19, 2025
A Miami longshoreman lacks support for a complaint accusing his union of turning against him after he repeatedly reported a co-worker for insubordination, the union told a Florida federal judge, saying the longshoreman's claims of breach of the duty of fair representation and infliction of emotional distress are thin.
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November 19, 2025
A Texas bankruptcy judge approved Maverick Gaming for a Chapter 11 sale of its fabrication business Wednesday, saying the company found the best deal for the assets even though the sale is to an insider.
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November 19, 2025
A New Jersey construction company wants to delay bidding for part of the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the multistate commission overseeing the project unlawfully barred employing the United Steelworkers union currently representing the company's workers.
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November 19, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official gave drivers for food distributor Sysco the go-ahead for a vote on joining the Teamsters in the first such decision since the government shutdown, approving the union's call to exclude nondrivers from the proposed unit.
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November 19, 2025
Only the U.S. secretary of labor can sue to enforce a federal ban on employers spending money to promote candidates for union office, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, upholding an Illinois federal judge's dismissal of litigation filed by a Chicago teachers union that attempted to enforce the ban.
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November 18, 2025
The Third Circuit's ruling affirming that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith before imposing a regressive contract on newsroom workers in 2020 highlights the complexity of effectuating the National Labor Relations Board's remedies, which are often enforced years after the violations they address.
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November 18, 2025
Trader Joe's is fighting a National Labor Relations Board judge's conclusion that it violated federal labor law by snubbing Trader Joe's United at a Louisville, Kentucky, store while it challenges the union's certification, saying the judge should have tabled the refusal-to-bargain case until the board resolves the certification challenge.
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November 18, 2025
David E. Gottlieb of Wigdor LLP tested the reach of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, securing a significant win in a discrimination case that reached the Second Circuit and earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 18, 2025
A longshoremen's union must continue resolving a labor dispute with a cargo unloader in Alabama federal court, an Eleventh Circuit panel said, tossing the union's request for the appellate court to kick the case to arbitration.
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November 18, 2025
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that it had brought on a former Delta Air Lines Inc. executive as a shareholder in its Atlanta office, adding a new co-chair to its aviation industry practice group.
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November 18, 2025
Nurses who claim that the city of San Francisco failed to pay them the proper overtime rates fall under a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption, a California federal judge ruled, finding summary judgment necessary following a sanctions order limiting the nurses' evidence.
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November 18, 2025
New York-based boutique Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP is growing its ranks by bringing in a Greenberg Glusker LLP media and entertainment ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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November 17, 2025
The Teamsters discriminated against a longtime employee with post-traumatic stress disorder by scheduling her to work during her therapy sessions and requiring her to rent cars, which triggers her, a lawsuit filed Monday in D.C. federal court alleges.
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November 17, 2025
Workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette who have been on strike for more than three years may soon be back on the job after offering to return Monday, a week after the Third Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board ruling that the newspaper illegally imposed regressive contract terms on them.
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November 17, 2025
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said they have scored a "major victory" after a D.C. federal judge blocked the federal government's cancellation of collective bargaining rights for Voice of America workers.
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November 17, 2025
California and two teachers' unions urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a challenge to a state law limiting who gets to know when new public employees have their orientations, disputing that the law discriminates against a group that informs state workers of their right not to be union members.
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November 17, 2025
A California federal judge was right to toss a carpenter's attempt to compel a group of union benefit plans to resume covering him and his coworkers, the plans told the Ninth Circuit, asking the appellate court to keep the suit dead.
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November 17, 2025
Cameron W. Fox, chair of Paul Hastings LLP's traditional labor practice group and partner in its employment law department, persevered through a trial during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles and secured a win for Levi Strauss & Co. in a discrimination case where the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than 20 minutes, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 17, 2025
Delta Air Lines should not be able to end a former employee's suit that said the company's understaffing issues forced workers to miss their meal and rest breaks, a former worker said, telling a Washington state federal court that she supported her claims well enough.
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November 17, 2025
A senior official in the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits division will retire at the end of the year after over three decades of government work, the agency said.
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November 14, 2025
The state of New York urged a Brooklyn federal judge to reject Amazon's bid to block a law allowing the Empire State's labor board to adjudicate private sector unionization matters and labor-management disputes, a statute that the online retailer says is flatly unconstitutional.
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November 14, 2025
The Federal Bureau of Prisons violated the constitutional rights of its employees when it unilaterally canceled a collective bargaining agreement in September in an effort to suppress union speech and activities, according to a new lawsuit in Connecticut federal court.