/employment-authority/labor?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Authority Labor Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:53:06 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398554?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398554 A Fourth Circuit panel has refused to grant the government more time to respond to several major unions' petition for an en banc rehearing regarding the panel's split August decision granting the Department of Government Efficiency access to personal data that is held by several federal agencies. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:43:09 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398668?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398668 Unions representing federal workers urged a California federal court Friday to immediately block the Trump administration from laying off workers amid the government shutdown as the administration acknowledged it had begun issuing reduction-in-force notices to thousands of employees. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:33:11 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398210?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398210 Curaleaf Holdings Inc. is suing the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission in federal court, saying the commission's requirement that cannabis companies have "labor peace agreements" with particular unions is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:39:32 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398224?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398224 Two unions have asked the D.C. Circuit to preserve injunctions that protected their contracts with nearly a dozen federal agencies, urging the court to uphold a D.C. federal judge's finding that President Donald Trump likely exceeded his authority by calling for the contracts' cancellation. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:52:08 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398557?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398557 A healthcare company urged a D.C. federal judge to enforce an arbitration award compelling the Service Employees International Union to pay nearly $550,000 for social media posts the company considered derogatory, rejecting the union's claims the award isn't final because the arbitrator died before he could reconsider. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:36:23 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2396404?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2396404 In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a nearly $1 million settlement approval hearing in a long-running wage and hour class action by cleaning workers that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:56:13 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398239?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2398239 The Seventh Circuit shut down SuperValu's challenge to a $22.6 million bill for pulling out of a union pension plan, rejecting the grocery chain's position that federal benefits law blocked the fund from factoring sold stores into its math. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:22:58 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397967?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397967 A former NFL player is fighting to keep his discrimination lawsuit against the league and his former team alive in Colorado federal court, saying his claims that the NFL and the Denver Broncos punished him for requesting a therapeutic-use exemption for synthetic THC are not preempted by the league's collective bargaining agreement. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:38:59 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397949?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397949 Two divergent rulings on challenges to state laws restricting mandatory anti-union meetings suggest these measures' detractors have a chance to topple them over conflicts with federal law — if they can get courts to consider their arguments. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:51 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397985?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397985 A Teamsters local asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to rethink his order permitting RunItOneTime LLC to sell assets to a company managed by one of its founders, saying the bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction to decide that the two weren't essentially the same business. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:32:04 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397513 The U.S. Senate labor committee on Thursday cleared two of the president's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — including the general counsel pick whose nomination appeared stalled — but withheld a third whose ties to Boeing drew criticism at his confirmation hearing last week. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:27:33 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397943?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397943 An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he violated the union's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by ending its longstanding presence at the agency. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:28:15 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397947?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397947 A Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers union local has urged the Sixth Circuit to keep an order to arbitrate an employee promotion grievance with snack company Kellanova, claiming the dispute is still arbitrable under the terms of an expired collective bargaining agreement. Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:54:47 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397670?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397670 An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:53:05 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397397 A National Labor Relations Board order compelling Nexstar to bargain with workers at a New York news station should be vacated, the company told the Second Circuit, raising objections including that an NLRB agent mishandled the representation election and that the union bribed workers with lower dues. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:48:45 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397564 A D.C. federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's claim that suits by unions representing employees of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging an executive order ending their collective bargaining rights are not related to similar cases before him. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:06:24 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397464?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397464 A major labor organization, the AFL-CIO, has come out against a Republican draft bill on crypto market structure, saying the draft lacks "meaningful safeguards." Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:36:09 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2396850?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2396850 The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administration highlights a questionable process that both parties have used to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking process, and points toward the next step in the fight over universal injunctions, says Mark Stevens at Clark Hill. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:07:20 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397155 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other business groups warned a New York federal court of the risks associated with the state's decision to expand the powers of its Public Employment Relations Board, arguing that the amendment would "sow chaos in national labor markets." Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:50:35 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397024?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2397024 Teamsters President Sean O'Brien urged a U.S. Senate labor committee at a hearing Wednesday to focus on piecemeal fixes to labor law — such as a pending bill to expedite union contracts and an upcoming plan to inform workers of their labor rights — over broader, doomed reforms.