Labor

  • June 26, 2025

    Med School Seeks To Keep NLRB Constitutionality Suit Alive

    A Nashville, Tennessee, medical college's suit challenging the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality should stay in play, the school told a federal judge, arguing it could face broad remedies in an administrative case that infringe on its right to a jury trial.

  • June 26, 2025

    Ex-Player Drops Rehab Abuse Suit Against NFL Union

    A former pro football player who claimed he was incorrectly sent to a Texas drug treatment center that abused him and physically blocked him from leaving has dropped his suit against the National Football League Players Association, as a Texas federal judge granted his unopposed motion to dismiss.

  • June 25, 2025

    Trump's DOL Blocked From Slashing Job Corps Program

    A New York federal judge Wednesday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from "suspending" most of the Job Corps program, ruling that Congress created the program and funded it, and the "DOL is not free to do as it pleases."

  • June 25, 2025

    Montana Tribes Look To Back Union In Election Law Dispute

    Several Native American tribes are looking to intervene in a challenge to a Montana law that they allege harms the state's rural Indigenous communities by eliminating eight hours of voter registration on Election Day, arguing that it violates equal protection laws and due process ensured by the state's constitution.

  • June 25, 2025

    Paint Co. Says 'Irregularity' No Reason For New Union Vote

    Staffers at the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office didn't taint the results of a union representation election at a Chicagoland painting company by failing to store all the ballots in the same location, the company has argued, calling the issue a "minor irregularity" that didn't affect the outcome.

  • June 25, 2025

    Union Says Arbitrator Made Up Filing Rule In Firing Challenge

    An International Union of Operating Engineers local sued a landfill operator in Indiana federal court Wednesday seeking to vacate an arbitration award upholding a member's firing, saying the arbitrator made up the grievance prerequisite he knocked the union for botching.

  • June 25, 2025

    DOL Urges Judge Not To Block H-2A Prevailing Wage Rules

    The U.S. Department of Labor defended its 2022 H-2A prevailing wage regulations against claims from a farmworker union in Washington federal court, arguing the agency's rules are lawful and must be upheld.

  • June 25, 2025

    NLRB Rightly Dinged Starbucks' Subpoenas, 5th Circ. Told

    The Fifth Circuit should uphold the National Labor Relations Board's finding that Starbucks sent overbroad subpoenas to two union-represented California workers who were testifying against the company, board attorneys argued, saying substantial evidence supports the board's finding that the subpoenas were designed to intimidate the workers.

  • June 25, 2025

    Court Halts Trump Order Curbing Federal Union Bargaining

    Several federal agencies must stop enforcing a part of President Donald Trump's executive order that would ax labor contracts covering agencies that have "national security" aims, a California federal judge ruled, finding unions showed they would suffer irreparable harm by losing collective bargaining rights.

  • June 24, 2025

    Arkansas Insurance Dept. Fights Teamsters Plan's ERISA Suit

    The Arkansas Insurance Department is looking to sink a challenge to a state insurance regulation filed by a Teamsters healthcare plan, telling an Illinois federal judge that the regulation isn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, besides, the plan can't sue the department.

  • June 24, 2025

    NCAA Athletes May Call Time Out On Unions After Settlement

    The final approval of a landmark $2.78 billion class action settlement allowing NCAA colleges and universities to share revenues with athletes could blunt unionization efforts that have already stalled amid uncertainty at the National Labor Relations Board, experts said.

  • June 24, 2025

    Cornell, Arb. Group Team Up For Dispute Resolution Service

    Cornell University and the American Arbitration Association are working together to establish a nationwide service offering assistance with dispute resolution and mediation for labor contracts, with a former Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service officer leading as the executive manager.

  • June 24, 2025

    Pickle Co. Wants To Put A Lid On NLRB Judge's Bargain Order

    A pickle manufacturer in Brooklyn asked the National Labor Relations Board not to order the company to negotiate with a UFCW local, challenging an agency judge's conclusions that the business illegally refused to bargain about the effects of the sale of its retail business and layoffs.

  • June 24, 2025

    Pitcher's Widow Keeps Up Fight For Benefits From MLB Plan

    The widow of a former Cincinnati Reds pitcher is pushing to keep her lawsuit against Major League Baseball's pension plan alive, urging a Florida federal judge to preserve her legal fight for surviving spouse benefits in the face of the plan's motion to dismiss.

  • June 23, 2025

    Trump Admin Says Justices' Ruling Should Kill SSA Data Suit

    The Trump administration is looking to scrap a union-brought challenge to the Department of Government Efficiency's ability to access Americans' Social Security information, telling a Maryland federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent pausing of an injunction won by the unions shows the administration's position is strong.

  • June 23, 2025

    DC Judge Wants More Details On Voice Of America Cuts

    A D.C. federal judge on Monday signaled doubt that the Trump administration was obeying his order to keep Voice of America up and running while a coalition of journalists, unions and a reporter advocacy group sue to keep the news agency intact.

  • June 23, 2025

    Amazon Asks 5th Circ. To Rehear Appeal To Stop NLRB Row

    The full Fifth Circuit must review whether a Texas federal judge "effectively denied" Amazon's attempt to stop a National Labor Relations Board refusal-to-bargain case, the e-commerce giant argued, saying an appeals court panel's standard did not align with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

  • June 23, 2025

    DOL Suspends Biden-Era H-2A Farmworker Protection Rule

    The U.S. Department of Labor has put a Biden-era regulation protecting union-related activities for agricultural workers on seasonal H-2A visas on ice while litigation over the rule continues and the agency considers new rulemaking.

  • June 23, 2025

    3rd Circ. Remands NLRB Solo Protest Spat To Weigh Evidence

    The Third Circuit on Monday backed the NLRB's findings that a lone fired worker's COVID-19 safety complaints were concerted activity under federal labor law, but remanded the case to the board in order to weigh evidence about whether the worker would have been fired regardless of whether he spoke up.

  • June 23, 2025

    Freight Business Fights Teamsters Picketing In SoCal

    A Toyota facility in Southern California has largely stopped doing business with a freight company whose Teamsters-represented workers are on strike, the company said in an $11 million federal court suit against the union, accusing it of illegally picketing that facility and several others.

  • June 20, 2025

    Texas High Court Finds Pilots Union's Can Sue Over 737 Max

    The Texas Supreme Court on Friday put wind beneath the wings of a Southwest Airline Pilots Association's suit aiming to hold Boeing responsible for its members' economic losses after regulators grounded the 737 Max aircraft, finding the Railway Labor Act does not preempt the union's claims.

  • June 20, 2025

    Texas Judge Clears Lockheed Of Worker's Retaliation Claims

    Lockheed Martin escaped retaliation and discrimination allegations from a fired mechanical inspector, a Texas federal judge ruled Friday, concluding the worker had not proved that race bias or whistleblowing led to his termination two years ago.

  • June 20, 2025

    NY Forecast: Judge Weighs Toss Of Doctor's Retaliation Suit

    In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a medical clinic's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former physician who claims he had his bonus withheld and was fired for complaining about conditions and practices at the clinic. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.

  • June 20, 2025

    States Moving To Fill In For Beleaguered NLRB

    A few states are mulling measures that would empower their labor arbiters to step in for the National Labor Relations Board as its staff struggles and the president's firing of a board member and failure to nominate new ones keep the agency from functioning fully.

  • June 20, 2025

    Crew Member Says HBO Pays Late, Fails To Provide Breaks

    Crew members working for HBO and a production company were paid several days late and were often required to work through their meal and rest breaks, a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit filed in California state court said.

Expert Analysis

  • A Close Look At The Rescinded Biden-Era NLRB Memos

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    National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel William Cowen's recent decision to rescind several guidance memoranda from his predecessor signals that he aims to move the board away from expanding organizing rights and to provide more room for employers to protect their operations and workforce, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • 6 Criteria Can Help Assess Executive Branch Actions

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    With new executive policy changes announced seemingly every day, several questions can help courts, policymakers and businesses determine whether such actions are proper, effective and in keeping with our democratic norms, say Marc Levin and Khalil Cumberbatch at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • 5 Key Issues For Multinational Cos. Mulling Return To Office

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    As companies increasingly revisit return-to-office mandates, multinational employers may face challenges in enforcing uniform RTO practices globally, but several key considerations and practical solutions can help avoid roadblocks, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

  • 7 Things Employers Should Expect From Trump's OSHA Pick

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    If President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is confirmed, workplace safety veteran David Keeling may focus on compliance and assistance, rather than enforcement, when it comes to improving worker safety, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.

  • Water Cooler Talk: Takeaways From 'It Ends With Us' Suits

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    Troutman’s Tracey Diamond and Emily Schifter discuss how the lawsuits filed by “It Ends With Us” stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni hold major lessons about workplace harassment, retaliation and employee digital media use.

  • Issues To Watch At ABA's Antitrust Spring Meeting

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    Attorneys at Freshfields consider the future of antitrust law and competition enforcement amid agency leadership changes and other emerging developments likely to dominate discussion at the American Bar Association's Antitrust Spring Meeting this week.

  • NLRB Firing May Need Justices' Input On Removal Power

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    President Donald Trump's unprecedented removal of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox spurred a lawsuit that is sure to be closely watched, as it may cause the U.S. Supreme Court to reexamine a 1935 precedent that has limited the president's removal powers, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

  • Weathering Policy Zig-Zags In Gov't Contracting Under Trump

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    To succeed amid the massive shift in federal contracting policies heralded by President Donald Trump's return to office, contractors should be prepared for increased costs and enhanced False Claims Act enforcement, and to act swiftly to avail themselves of contractual remedies, says Jacob Scott at Smith Currie.

  • Making The Case For Rest In The Legal Profession

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    For too long, a culture of overwork has plagued the legal profession, but research shows that attorneys need rest to perform optimally and sustainably, so legal organizations and individuals must implement strategies that allow for restoration, says Marissa Alert at MDA Wellness, Carol Ross-Burnett at CRB Global, and Denise Robinson at The Still Center.

  • 2 Areas Of Labor Law That May Change Under Trump

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    Based on President Donald Trump's recent moves, employers should expect to see significant changes in the direction of law coming out of the National Labor Relations Board, particularly in two areas where the Trump administration will seek to roll back the Biden NLRB's changes, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O’Connor.

  • Water Cooler Talk: 'Late Night' Shows DEI Is More Than Optics

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    Amid the shifting legal landscape for corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Troutman's Tracey Diamond and Emily Schifter chat with their firm's DEI committee chair, Nicole Edmonds, about how the 2019 film "Late Night" reflects the challenges and rewards of fostering meaningful inclusion.

  • Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB

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    Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.

  • NCAA Rulings Signal Game Change For Athlete Classification

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    A Tennessee federal court's recent decision in Pavia v. NCAA adds to a growing call to consider classifying college athletes as employees under federal law, a change that would have unexpected, potentially prohibitive costs for schools, says J.R. Webster Cucovatz at Gilson Daub.

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