/employment-authority/labor?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Authority Labor Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:46:11 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357750?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357750 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." Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:23:52 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357314?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357314 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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:05:26 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357397 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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:35:07 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357552?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357552 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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:58:37 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357412?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357412 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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:15:02 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357119?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357119 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. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:03:27 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357287?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2357287 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:23:31 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356913?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356913 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:27:23 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356818?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356818 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:52:22 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2355958?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2355958 Since President Donald Trump took office, many changes have directly affected how employers must address accommodation requests, particularly those concerning pregnancy-related medical conditions and religious beliefs, underscoring the importance of regularly reviewing and updating accommodation policies and procedures, say attorneys at Kutak Rock. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:29:44 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356969?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356969 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:51:25 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356890?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356890 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. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:00:33 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356408?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356408 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:19:12 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356313?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356313 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:02:53 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356157?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356157 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:58:38 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356322?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356322 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:51:44 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356361?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356361 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:22:38 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356226?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356226 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. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:20:56 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2356179 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. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:42:22 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2355762?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2355762 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.