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Labor advocates are approaching with caution President-elect Donald Trump's choice of an Oregon lawmaker who cosponsored a union-backed labor law rewrite to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the pick could show unions have sway with the incoming administration but awaiting proof that the relationship will hold.
Workers in the National Labor Relations Board's hollowed-out field offices are drowning amid a surge in cases, extending case timelines exponentially and impeding the agency's mission to protect labor rights, according to agency data and interviews with NLRB employees and users.
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House means employers can expect less scrutiny of their labor relations, in the short term as a new prosecutor eases up on Biden-era enforcement initiatives and in the long term as a new Republican majority rethinks labor-friendly precedents, experts say.
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Labor advocates are approaching with caution President-elect Donald Trump's choice of an Oregon lawmaker who cosponsored a union-backed labor law rewrite to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, saying the pick could show unions have sway with the incoming administration but awaiting proof that the relationship will hold.
Workers in the National Labor Relations Board's hollowed-out field offices are drowning amid a surge in cases, extending case timelines exponentially and impeding the agency's mission to protect labor rights, according to agency data and interviews with NLRB employees and users.
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House means employers can expect less scrutiny of their labor relations, in the short term as a new prosecutor eases up on Biden-era enforcement initiatives and in the long term as a new Republican majority rethinks labor-friendly precedents, experts say.
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November 25, 2024
The largest union for federal employees named a new general counsel Monday, positioning him as well-poised to fight off any attacks to government jobs that may come from an incoming presidential administration that has pledged to "dismantle government bureaucracy."
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November 25, 2024
Boston University urged a federal court Monday to dismiss a former employee's allegations about a sexual harassment complaint investigation against him, arguing that the toss of a duty of fair representation claim against a Service Employees International Union affiliate spells the end of the suit.
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November 25, 2024
A Kentucky federal judge granted several farmers and farm associations' bid to block the U.S. Department of Labor's new protections for foreign H-2A farmworkers, saying Monday the agency's extension of labor organizing rights to these workers amounts to a "blatant arrogation of authority."
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November 25, 2024
About 55 student workers at three Pomona College cafes can vote on joining the UNITE HERE-represented bargaining unit that includes the school's full-time food service staff, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, rejecting the school's argument that student workers don't belong in the unit.
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November 25, 2024
Quarles & Brady LLP has brought on a pair of Buchalter PC employment attorneys as partners in its San Diego office, marking the Milwaukee-based firm's latest expansion in the Golden State since arriving there through a merger nearly two years ago.
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November 25, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have updated their bid to compel the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to bargain with its striking workers' unions and cover the workers' healthcare costs, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that the record in this case and others against the newspaper support their request for an injunction.
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November 25, 2024
Google and its contractor Accenture are joint employers of workers on a content creation team who voted to unionize last year, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel concluded, finding Google has "substantial direct and immediate control" over hours and other employment terms.
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November 22, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday evening that he plans to nominate Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.
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November 22, 2024
A building management services company's challenge to the certification of an International Union of Operating Engineers local got a frosty reception from a D.C. Circuit panel Friday, with one judge remarking that he had "no idea" what the company was talking about.
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November 22, 2024
Nearly two dozen workers at a California funeral business can vote on union representation early next month, including the crematory manager, who a National Labor Relations Board official found was union-eligible over the business' objections.
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November 22, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board paused a rerun election and kicked a case over alleged campaign meddling back to a judge to decide whether six pot shop workers could vote in a 2023 election, agreeing that it would moot the need for another vote if resolving the challenges reveals a union win.
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November 22, 2024
A Florida long-term care facility urged the Eleventh Circuit to overturn an arbitration award that required the company to rehire a nursing assistant it accused of discriminatory behavior, saying the arbitrator exceeded his authority in making that determination.
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November 22, 2024
A Chicagoland network of healthcare centers serving the LGBTQ+ community has agreed to distribute $1 million in back pay among 55 laid-off employees and offer them reinstatement, according to a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office announced Friday.
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November 22, 2024
In the next two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential pause on discovery in a U.S. citizen discrimination proposed class action against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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November 22, 2024
Waffle House has become the latest company to accuse the National Labor Relations Board of violating its rights under the Seventh Amendment, suing in South Carolina federal court over the agency's failure to offer the company a jury trial on allegations that one of its restaurants flouted labor law.
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November 22, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider arguments to revive a race discrimination and retaliation suit brought by a former doctor at a New York clinic who claims he was discriminated against and ultimately fired because of his race.
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November 21, 2024
Exxon Mobil lawfully locked out hundreds of United Steelworkers members at a Texas refinery, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Thursday, rejecting agency prosecutors' theory that the company shut out workers to push them to decertify the union.
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November 21, 2024
A union was not motivated by bias when it stopped fighting for an Ohio prison guard's rehire while continuing to fight for her co-worker's, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, upholding a federal judge's ruling in favor of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.
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November 21, 2024
The AFL-CIO, SEIU, American Civil Liberties Union, and several business groups and nonprofits have urged a Texas federal court not to scrap U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the guidelines provide critical advice on preventing workplace harassment.
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November 21, 2024
A printing company in Texas unlawfully questioned and later fired a worker for talking about pay with colleagues, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, finding the employer's explanations for the termination don't pass muster.
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November 21, 2024
An arbitrator disregarded evidence and the Family and Medical Leave Act when she ordered Unilever to reinstate a worker the company had fired for allegedly falsifying company records, the company told a Missouri federal court, urging it to nix the award.
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November 21, 2024
A Minnesota paving company must pay two drivers about $500 each to cover the pay they lost after being unfairly disciplined, a National Labor Relations Board judge held, rejecting the company's attempt to pin the blame for the lost pay on the drivers.
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November 21, 2024
An International Longshore and Warehouse Union affiliate in Alaska violated federal labor law by calling a union member who raised harassment complaints a "rat," the National Labor Relations Board concluded, with the panel splitting over whether the union unlawfully caused the employee's termination.
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November 21, 2024
A Michigan hospital did not violate federal labor law by firing a longtime nurse who complained about not being able to switch shifts with a co-worker, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying her complaints were not group concerns protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
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November 21, 2024
The Second Circuit appeared reluctant Thursday to revive a fringe contributions dispute between two concrete companies and a group of union fringe benefit funds, with multiple judges pointing to discovery failures that underpinned a lower court's grant of summary judgment to the union.