/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, 26 Nov 2025 22:29:28 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2416083?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2416083 A New York federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking a law allowing the Empire State's labor board to adjudicate private sector unionization matters and labor-management disputes, ruling that Amazon is likely to prevail in its challenge of the measure. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:29:00 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415801?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415801 Health plans claiming Biogen Inc. illegally stifled competition for its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera have said an Illinois federal judge should let their latest complaint proceed to discovery because it fixes earlier pleading deficiencies and better outlines the drugmaker's allegedly anticompetitive scheme. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:11:22 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2416052?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2416052 The Ninth Circuit defied U.S. Supreme Court precedent and opened a circuit split when it upheld a National Labor Relations Board order making Macy's rehire striking workers and dole out novel remedies covering workers' losses, the company argued Wednesday in a bid for the high court's review. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:57:11 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415652?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415652 Meat department workers at an Albertson's store in Idaho can vote on representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers, but a National Labor Relations Board official denied their bid to join a multi-store bargaining unit in the state's western region, finding that they haven't worked closely enough with that unit's members. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:15:50 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415832?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415832 The employer challenging the National Labor Relations Board's 2023 precedent shift on union representation elections and bargaining orders asked the Ninth Circuit to keep the case paused, fighting the NLRB's request that the court resume processing Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC's appeal after a year. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:41:20 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415962?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415962 A utility drilling company failed to keep up on its contribution bills owed to its employee benefits plans, resulting in a $20,000 funding shortfall, according to a suit filed by a group of benefit funds and labor associations in Colorado federal court. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:10:32 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415812?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415812 The National Labor Relations Board's legal advice office told prosecutors to argue that federal labor law shielded Starbucks workers who staged a 2019 protest after earlier opining that the protest was too disruptive to be protected, newly released memos addressing the "close case" show. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:26:07 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2388138?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2388138 The COVID-19 pandemic forced employers and unions to make sweeping changes to how they negotiate labor contracts, and while many of the changes went away with the health emergency, attorneys said some are still affecting bargaining five years later. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:17:07 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2412065?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2412065 Workers who say Prudential mismanaged their retirement savings will ask the Third Circuit to reinstate their class action, while a union pension fund will ask the Eighth Circuit to put General Electric back on the hook for a $230 million in pension withdrawal liability. Here's a look at six upcoming oral argument sessions benefits attorneys should have on their radar. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:27:28 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415471?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415471 A retired flight attendant accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts asked a Nevada federal court to grant her case class action status, arguing the roughly 3,000-strong group she proposed had enough in common to warrant certification. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:57:22 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415316?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415316 The Senate labor committee is set to vote on a nominee to fill one of several vacancies at the National Labor Relations Board early next month after scrapping a thrice-rescheduled vote on his candidacy last week. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:40:57 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415344?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415344 A Teamsters unit has sued UPS in Illinois federal court, alleging the company is undermining a collective bargaining agreement covering about 10,000 workers in Chicago by giving bargaining unit work to a subsidiary called Roadie. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:47:04 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415352?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415352 A union coalition urged a New York federal judge Monday to order the federal government to disclose how much access to federal workers' personal information it gave the Department of Government Efficiency and what the White House unit formerly headed by Elon Musk did with that information. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:39:09 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415362 A Service Employees International Union unit is seeking a quick exit from an ex-employee's suit alleging that the union failed to represent her after a Philadelphia hospital fired her while she was on medical leave, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that the worker's case is time-barred. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:08:49 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415308?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415308 A New Jersey utility systems installer should have classified workers on public projects under the prevailing wages for electricians, a New Jersey appellate panel said Tuesday, affirming the state Department of Labor determination that the company owed nearly $159,000 in wages, penalties and fees. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:30:03 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415070?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415070 A Michigan power plant operator must rehire a union-represented worker who it fired after he was approved for long-term disability, the Sixth Circuit ruled, upholding an arbitration award against Holtec over its protests that the company was misnamed in the paperwork. Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:34:59 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415108?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415108 The U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss two appeals defending a package of Biden-era investment advice regulations that had expanded the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which two Texas courts had blocked in 2024. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:27:30 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2414938?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2414938 A Rhode Island federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from eliminating four federal agencies that support museums and libraries, minority businesses, organized labor, and homeless services, handing a win to a coalition of 21 states that challenged the legality of the cuts. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:31:39 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2414733?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2414733 A Massachusetts federal judge should toss a proposed class action accusing a Teamsters healthcare plan of failing to protect plan participants' personal information, the plan argued, seeking dismissal of a suit that seeks to hold the plan liable for an August data breach. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:32:48 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415031?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2415031 Workers who returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday after a three-year strike must be reverted to their old healthcare plans, as the Third Circuit denied the company a stay of an order making it comply with a National Labor Relations Board ruling.