/employment-authority/labor?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Authority Labor Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Sat, 17 May 2025 00:11:36 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2338801?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2338801 A D.C. Circuit panel majority Friday sounded inclined to lift lower court restrictions on what the Trump administration contends is its lawful push to "radically downsize" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, potentially clearing the way for mass layoffs of its staff. Fri, 16 May 2025 21:39:11 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341538?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341538 NJ Transit has hit two unions with lawsuits in New Jersey federal court over a rail strike that began Friday, accusing a Teamsters unit and the American Train Dispatchers Association of violating the Railway Labor Act by refusing to cross another Teamsters unit's picket line. Fri, 16 May 2025 20:24:29 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341509 President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause a California federal judge's order temporarily halting agencies from implementing an executive order to plan reorganizations and reductions in force, claiming the lower court's decision has caused confusion and wasted taxpayer dollars. Fri, 16 May 2025 20:22:14 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340999?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340999 A Chicagoland medical center network that serves the Hispanic community failed to sufficiently loop in its workers' union after the IRS identified potential issues with four workers' Social Security numbers, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, holding the employer responsible for a labor law violation. Fri, 16 May 2025 19:35:32 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341630?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341630 National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel William Cowen instructed regional officials on Friday to exercise more discretion over the remedies they pursue when seeking to settle cases, walking back instructions from his predecessor to seek maximum remedies in settlements. Fri, 16 May 2025 19:28:37 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341489?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341489 A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday grappled with the extent of the president's power to fire federal officials with the U.S. Supreme Court's views in flux, with two judges straining to pin the government's attorney down on what divides agencies Congress can insulate and those it can't. Fri, 16 May 2025 19:28:25 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341279 The Trump administration's immigration policies could lead to changes in how the National Labor Relations Board investigates and prosecutes cases that involve immigrant workers, and could make it less likely that those workers participate in agency proceedings, experts said. Fri, 16 May 2025 17:45:38 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2341280 This week, the Second Circuit will consider an appeal of a federal judge's decision dismissing a discrimination lawsuit brought by New York court interpreters who claim they are systematically paid less than a federal benchmark because they are foreign born.  Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:02:32 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340996?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340996 A dishwasher equipment company violated federal labor law by threatening the elimination of a promised wage hike if workers unionized with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while dismissing allegations about flyer language and a threat end to profit sharing. Fri, 16 May 2025 14:07:35 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2338753?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2338753 In the coming two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the California Supreme Court regarding whether federal law preempts state statutes involving arbitration fees. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State. Thu, 15 May 2025 20:45:21 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340919?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340919 Two former captains and a statewide union sued a Southwest Colorado fire district and its chief Thursday for allegedly stopping a union campaign in its tracks by retaliating against organizers, claiming the chief fired the captains after they organized a vote showing nearly three-quarters of workers backed unionization. Thu, 15 May 2025 20:26:37 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340730?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340730 A California federal judge must greenlight a nationwide injunction to stop multiple federal agencies from moving ahead with implementing reorganization and mass termination plans linked to an executive order, a coalition of unions and groups argued, making their request on the heels of a temporary restraining order. Thu, 15 May 2025 19:21:00 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340954?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340954 A grocery worker suing Kroger and Albertsons over an alleged no-poach agreement is pushing back on the companies' claim the litigation is preempted by federal labor law, telling the Colorado federal judge hearing the case that antitrust laws have not been displaced by labor law, especially in labor market collusion. Thu, 15 May 2025 18:34:47 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340676?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340676 A Miami Beach hotel didn't violate federal labor law by banning workers from contacting hotel guests about workplace grievances, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, holding that the ban is justified and does not explicitly restrict union activity. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:45:33 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340878?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340878 The writing may be on the wall for two fired labor officials' defenses of orders restoring them to work as they make their cases Friday to three D.C. Circuit judges who have already weighed in on their joint test of the president's power to remove executive appointees. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:36:34 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340736?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340736 A farmworkers' union said that the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 H-2A prevailing wage regulations cannot stand and could leave farmworkers without prevailing wage protections, urging a Washington federal court to grant the union a partial win. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:29:44 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340383?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340383 A Teamsters local asked the D.C. Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board decision concluding a waste transportation company illegally refused to bargain about its decision to place monitoring cameras in trucks, arguing the unilateral installation is unlawful under differing standards from the NLRB and court.  Thu, 15 May 2025 17:28:49 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340590?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340590 A D.C. Circuit panel expressed skepticism Thursday that it had any role in deciding two Starbucks workers' challenge to job protections for National Labor Relations Board members now that the agency agrees with the baristas' argument. Thu, 15 May 2025 15:50:41 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340610?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340610 Four local governments and a public sector union must go to the Court of Federal Claims if they want to accuse the Trump administration of improperly canceling public health grants issued during the pandemic, the administration told a Washington, D.C., federal judge, in fighting their injunction bid. Wed, 14 May 2025 22:00:03 +0000 /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340371?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/labor/articles/2340371 Unions representing employees in the nursing, education, mining and manufacturing industries on Wednesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C., federal court over efforts to gut an agency tasked with protecting workers' health and safety.