The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a federal judge’s preliminary injunction that required the federal government to rehire as many as 16,000 fired probationary employees.
The main legal need surrounding reality show participants concerns their employment status—or lack thereof. Reality show participants are treated as independent contractors, which technically lets networks and productions evade many of the labor laws that protect employees.
Trial attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division have voted to form what could be its first unions, Bloomberg Law reported Monday.
The men’s basketball team at Dartmouth College dropped its attempt to unionize Tuesday in anticipation of a changing the National Labor Relations Board under the new presidential administration.
Public defenders and prosecutors are among about 250 government attorneys who went on strike Monday in California’s Sacramento County following two years without a contract.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged an “organizational restructuring” after the SPLC Union said the group laid off more than 60 union members, along with at least 20 supervisors, last week.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to restrict the National Labor Relations Board’s authority to obtain relief for fired union activists, in a win for Starbucks that could deal a blow to labor organizing efforts
The website of the Columbia Law Review was temporarily taken down last week, a reaction to a “secretive process” used in editing an article calling Zionism a form of colonialism and racism, according to the law review’s board of directors.
A judge in Dane County, Wisconsin, is considering whether a 2011 law restricting collective bargaining by some public employees violates the state’s equal protection clause.
The Supreme Court appeared prepared to side with Starbucks in its request to curtail the National Labor Relations Board’s authority in determining whether fired union activists should get their jobs back in a case that was argued before the court Tuesday.
A case of seven fired Starbucks workers has reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed Friday to decide what kind of standard that courts should use when deciding a request for reinstatement by the National Labor Relations Board.
Lawyers for Southwest Airlines didn’t have to attend religious liberty training Tuesday as a result of a temporary administrative stay granted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2022 term ended just a couple of months ago, but it’s already apparent that the decisions are leading to a great deal of litigation. What are the major issues left open by the cases that are likely to be litigated in state and federal courts?
