Labor Law - General

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) ended its strike across the East Coast and Gulf Coast ports after reaching a tentative wage agreement with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX). USMX, which represents port terminal operators, had been in contract negotiations for several months before

The National Labor Relations Board will no longer accept “consent orders” to resolve unfair labor practice cases when terms are objected to by the charging party or Board general counsel.

Colleges and universities that employ their own students face conflicts about how to protect student information, as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), while disclosing information about student-employees who seek to unionize, as required by the National Labor Relatio

The National Labor Relations Board returned to its pre-Trump Board union election procedures.

The NLRB stands out from other administrative agencies due to its quasi-judicial nature.

On July 26, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finalized a rule that will eliminate the commonsense rules previously implemented by the Board in 2020 and restore the Board’s pre-2020 practice for processing union elections when the union alleges an employer has interfered with the vote

A unanimous Fifth Circuit panel vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 decision in Lion Elastomers 1 on the grounds that the NLRB exceeded the scope of the court’s 2021 remand and deprived Lion Elastomers of its due process rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court raised the standard a U.S. district court must apply when analyzing the propriety of a 10(j) injunction. No. 23-367 (June 13, 2024).

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce , Nos. 21-5166/22-1219, (June 28, 2024) overturning the Chevron doctrine left open the future scope of judicial deference to National Labor Relations Board decisions. On Ju

On June 13, 2024, an administrative law judge (ALJ) for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that overly broad noncompete and nonsolicitation provisions in an employment agreement violated an employee’s labor rights in what could be the first NLRB ruling to find such provisions unlawful u

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenged the NLRB's 2023 Rule, arguing the Rule is unlawfully overbroad and would negatively affect franchisors-franchisees, contractors-subcontractors, and staffing agencies-user employers.

By: Supreme Court Confirms More Stringent Test Before Granting Section 10(j) Injunctions In Rare Win For Employers Earlier this week, in Starbucks v. McKinney , 602 U.S. ____ _2024), the Supreme Court resolved a disagreement among federal appeals courts on how requests for injunctive relief under Se

The National Labor Relations Board is appealing a Texas district court’s ruling that struck down the Board’s 2023 joint-employer rule as unlawfully overbroad.

V olkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, facility voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). The workers voted 2,628 to 985 to join the UAW.

A Texas federal judge struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s new joint-employer rule. U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. NLRB, No. 6:23-cv-00553 (E.D. Tex. Mar. 8, 2024).

The NLRB is required to recognize lawful collective bargaining agreements, and as such, has a duty to determine whether CBA language directly or indirectly excuses an employer from responding to a Request for Information. Contractual grievance and arbitration procedures may be an appropriate vehicle

By: Ensuring Your Severance Agreements Are Lawful By: Ensuring Your Severance Agreements Are Lawful Approximately one year ago, we reported on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision in McLaren Macomb and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s subsequent interpretation of that decision and wh

Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2024 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor.

Goldberg Segalla’s Labor Law Update keeps clients informed about significant changes and cases involving New York’s Labor Law. The Spring 2024 issue includes:

On March 8, 2024, a judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) expanded joint-employer rule that would have made it more likely for employers to be deemed joint employers.