Labor

  • October 22, 2025

    Trump Admin Battles DC Circ. Rehearing Bid In CFPB Case

    The Trump administration has urged the full D.C. Circuit to keep in place a split panel's ruling that would allow mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, dismissing a union-led bid for full-court review as one that's built on a misguided "straw man" attack.

  • October 22, 2025

    Colo. County Says Right-To-Unionize Law Is Unconstitutional

    A Colorado county has filed a federal lawsuit against the state's governor and director of labor and employment, alleging a state statute that expands county employees' right to unionize unconstitutionally limits freedom of speech and violates federal labor relations laws.

  • October 22, 2025

    Feds Urge Justices To Back Machinists Fund In Pension Fight

    The federal government wrote in support of trustees of an International Association of Machinists pension fund in a dispute with employers at the U.S. Supreme Court, backing the union's argument that a pension plan actuary could change the methods and assumptions used to calculate withdrawal payments.

  • October 22, 2025

    Presidential Firing Limits Fight Builds At High Court

    The ousted U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board chair has encouraged the U.S. Supreme Court to include a caveat for "legislative courts" if it overturns precedent that empowers Congress to limit the president's authority to fire certain agency officials, but opponents of independent agencies want a clean break from the status quo. 

  • October 22, 2025

    Faster Deals Act Erodes 'Point' Of Union, Boeing Worker Says

    A bill intended to ease initial labor contracts by letting arbitration panels break stalemates between unions and employers would undermine the value of unions if workers don't get to vote on the resulting pact, a striking Boeing worker said Wednesday at a Senate labor committee hearing.

  • October 22, 2025

    Unions Pursue More Protection For Federal Workers In Shutdown

    Eight unions asked a California federal judge to step up the level of protection she provided to thousands of federal workers' jobs during the government shutdown, urging her to expand the number of jobs she's protecting and turn a temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction.

  • October 21, 2025

    9th Circ. Panel Reaffirms NLRB's Use Of 'Thryv Remedies'

    The National Labor Relations Board correctly applied its 2022 Thryv ruling when it ordered Macy's to pay heightened remedies after refusing to rehire strikers, a split Ninth Circuit panel reaffirmed, shooting down a request to reconsider a split panel decision from January while amending the decision slightly.

  • October 21, 2025

    3rd Circ. Reinstates Union Rep's Pharmacy Fraud Charges

    The Third Circuit said Tuesday that it had revived charges against a union representative at a telecommunications company after finding that federal prosecutors sufficiently alleged that the rep submitted false claims to a pharmacy benefits manager for medically unnecessary testing and medicine.

  • October 21, 2025

    NLRB Shutdown Has Differing Impact On ULP, Election Cases

    The ongoing federal government shutdown has been a mixed bag for parties that rely on the National Labor Relations Board, tacking modest delays on the lengthy timelines for resolving unfair labor practice cases but closing off a path for workers to unionize by stalling speedier representation election cases.

  • October 21, 2025

    Co. Says $28M ERISA Suit Against Union Fund Must Proceed

    A New Jersey federal judge should keep overseeing a $28 million Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against a Teamsters local and the local's health insurance fund, a roofing and siding manufacturer argued, telling the judge that the dismissal argument lodged by the fund and local is flawed.

  • October 21, 2025

    Judge Agrees With United That Wage Suits Are Linked

    A suit accusing United Airlines of conspiring to underpay workers is related to another case in which flight attendants are bringing a grievance to arbitration without the Teamsters' support, a California federal judge ruled, turning down a worker's arguments that the cases didn't overlap.

  • October 20, 2025

    DOT's Immigrant Truck Driver Rule Gets DC Circ. Challenge

    Workers and unions on Monday petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review a new U.S. Department of Transportation rule that blocks certain immigrants from holding commercial driver's licenses despite having authorization to work in the U.S.

  • October 20, 2025

    Hotel Fails To Comply With $1.1M Wage Award, Court Told

    The operators of a New York City hotel have failed to fully pay a roughly $1.1 million arbitration award stemming from a wage and benefits dispute, a hotel and hospitality workers union said, urging a New York federal court to order the entities to comply with the award.

  • October 20, 2025

    Feds Reduce Charge Against SEIU Official Over ICE Protest

    Federal prosecutors in California have downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor an obstruction charge against the Service Employees International Union's California head, who was arrested in June during a protest at an immigration raid.

  • October 20, 2025

    More Fed. Workers Added To TRO Blocking Shutdown Layoffs

    A California federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from laying off workers from two unions representing thousands of federal workers has expanded her temporary restraining order to include three more unions and also clarified that the order covered workers with union contracts that the administration is seeking to ditch.

  • October 20, 2025

    Union Asks 3rd Circ. To Rethink Toss Of $3.5M Pension Win

    The Third Circuit conflicted with U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it scrapped a $3.5 million win for a pipe fitters and plumbers union that found a commercial real estate company failed to properly factor overtime in pension contributions, the union argued as it asked the Circuit Court to rethink its opinion.

  • October 17, 2025

    DC Circ. Denies DOJ Bid For Shutdown Delay In CFPB Case

    The D.C. Circuit said Friday it will not delay briefing in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau layoffs case as the government shutdown drags on, rejecting a Trump administration request for a deadline extension tied to the lapse in federal funding.

  • October 17, 2025

    AFA-CWA Looks To Ax SkyWest Group's Counterclaims

    SkyWest Airlines' in-house employee group can't support its allegation that a flight attendant and a union organizer conspired to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Association of Flight Attendants said, asking a Utah federal judge Friday to slice the counterclaim from union-brought litigation against the group and SkyWest.

  • October 17, 2025

    CBA Doesn't Block Pilot's Arbitration Bid, Alaska Judge Says

    Federal labor law entitles a pilot to arbitrate a firing grievance his Teamsters local declined to pursue, an Alaska federal judge said, rejecting the union's argument that its collective bargaining agreement with a cargo company precluded his individual arbitration bid.

  • October 17, 2025

    Judge Advises Keeping Electrician's Retaliation Claim Alive

    A Black electrical worker's claim that he was illegally pushed out of his job for reporting race discrimination on the job should survive, but allegations he made against his union for not grieving his termination should be tossed, a Tennessee federal magistrate judge has recommended. 

  • October 17, 2025

    With NLRB Closed, Casino Workers Strike For Union

    Workers at an Indianapolis casino went on strike to demand that their employer recognize a Teamsters unit as their representative Friday, the same day they were originally scheduled to vote in a National Labor Relations Board election before the federal government shut down.

  • October 17, 2025

    GM Parts Co. Wants Out Of Black Worker's Harassment Suit

    A Black employee of a General Motors subsidiary can't support her lawsuit alleging the company did nothing to stop a white co-worker from stalking and harassing her, the company told a New York federal court Friday, arguing she failed to show the colleague's conduct was tied to race, not personal relations.

  • October 17, 2025

    Ill. Co. Can't Dodge Scholarship Fund Payment, Union Argues

    An Illinois federal judge should compel a Chicagoland excavation company to pay a union scholarship fund about $180,000, the union argued, saying the judge should enforce a grievance committee's decision and not let the company wriggle out of paying by creating a nonunion alter ego.

  • October 17, 2025

    Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

    The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

  • October 17, 2025

    DaVita, Fresenius Seek Dismissal Of Dialysis Price-Fix Suit

    The nation's two biggest dialysis providers are looking to get a price-fixing class action accusing them of carving up geographic markets tossed, telling a Colorado federal judge that similar pricing is a natural competitive outcome in a highly concentrated market like that for dialysis, not evidence of a conspiracy.

Expert Analysis

  • 4 Employment Law Areas Set To Change Under Trump

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    President Donald Trump's second term is expected to bring significant changes to the U.S. employment law landscape, including the potential for updated worker classification regulations, and challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion that are already taking shape, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • 10 Key Worker-Friendly California Employment Law Updates

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    New employment laws in California expand employee rights, transparency and enforcement mechanisms, and failing to educate department managers on these changes could put employers at risk, says Melanie Ronen at Stradley Ronon.

  • 7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

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    A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights and avoid legal responsibility shines a light on seven unique contractual provisions that violate federal labor laws, and face agressive litigation from the labor solicitor, says Thomas Starks at Freeman Mathis.

  • How Trump Presidency May Influence NLRB's Next Phase

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    Attorneys at Paul Hastings discuss how last year’s key National Labor Relations Board developments may progress once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, including the wave of lawsuits challenging the board’s constitutionality and two landmark board decisions that upset decades of precedent.

  • How Trump Admin May Approach AI In The Workplace

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    Key indicators suggest that the incoming Trump administration will adopt a deregulatory approach to artificial intelligence, allowing states to fill the void, so it is critical that employers pay close attention to developing legal authority concerning AI tools, say attorneys at Littler.

  • Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs

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    General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.

  • Top 10 Employer Resolutions For 2025

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    While companies must monitor for policy shifts under the new administration in 2025, it will also be a year to play it safe and remember the basics, such as the importance of documenting retention policies and conducting swift investigations into workplace complaints, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

  • NLRB Likely To Fill Vacuum After NMB Jurisdiction Ruling

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    The National Mediation Board's recent ruling in Swissport Cargo Services LP abandoned decades of precedent by concluding the Railway Labor Act doesn’t apply to airline service providers, likely leading the National Labor Relations Board to assert its jurisdiction instead and potentially causing more operational disruptions and labor strife, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Ring In The New Year With An Updated Employee Handbook

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    One of the best New Year's resolutions employers can make is to update their employee handbooks, given that a handbook can mitigate, or even prevent, costly litigation as long as it accounts for recent changes in laws, court rulings and agency decisions, say attorneys at Kutak Rock.

  • 9 Things To Expect From Trump's Surprising DOL Pick

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    The unexpected nomination of Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., to lead the U.S. Department of Labor reflects a blend of pro-business and pro-labor leanings, and signals that employers should prepare for a mix of continuity and moderate adjustments in the coming years, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.

  • Why State Captive Audience Laws Matter After NLRB Decision

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    As employers focus on complying with the National Labor Relations Board's new position that captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, they should also be careful not to overlook state captive audience laws that prohibit additional types of company meetings and communications, says Karla Grossenbacher at Seyfarth.

  • Pa. Ruling Highlights Challenges Of Employer Arb. Appeals

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    A Pennsylvania federal court's recent ruling in Welch Foods v. General Teamsters Local Union No. 397 demonstrates the inherent difficulties employers face when seeking relief from labor arbitration decisions through appeals in court — and underscores how employers are faced with often conflicting legal priorities, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O'Connor.

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