May 19th 2022
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The State of Arizona has been so deficient in promulgating and enforcing worker safety rules that the federal government might revoke the State's authority to so do altogether. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced yesterday that since at...
As eight Starbucks locations have had NLRB-certified union elections, with more than 200 filing paperwork to engage in a vote, CEO Howard Schultz has announced that Starbucks may be offering certain new benefits only to non-unionized workers. The Wall Street...
On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health and safety, an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls organized a warehouse-worker walkout to protest unsafe working...
In the wake of OSHA’s withdrawal of its shot-or-test rule for large employers after the Supreme Court blocked its enforcement, attention has shifted to OSHA’s Covid-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) covering the healthcare industry. On December 27, 2021, OSHA...
Yesterday, NLRB prosecutors accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by threatening, interrogating and surveilling workers at a New York warehouse where a unionization effort was underway. According to the NLRB complaint, an Amazon consulting promised to solve...
In December, the Senate confirmed Jennifer Sung to a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by a 50-49 vote along party lines. Sung had been serving as one of the three members of the Oregon Employment Relations Board, a state agency that oversees labor...
In staying OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard, six U.S. Supreme Court Justices joined an opinion that the ETS was likely beyond OSHA’s authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Here I’ll show you how the Court read the OSH Act in an...
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing the Biden Administration’s health worker vaccine-or-test mandate to move forward, the Department of Health and Human Services is appealing a federal court’s ruling that had enjoined the health worker...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court blocked OSHA’s nationwide vaccine or mask-and-test mandate for private businesses with over 100 employees, while allowing a separate, narrower yet stricter mandate affecting the health care industry to remain standing. Under OSHA’s...
The impasse between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago authorities came no closer to resolution this weekend, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejected a proposal by the union to return to in-person instruction on January 18. “The best, safest place for kids to be is in...
The Supreme Court will hear fast-tracked oral arguments today in a consolidated set of cases challenging the Biden administration’s OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) protecting workers against contracting COVID-19 at work and challenging a similar mandate...
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work appears here to stay. As infection rates have surged in recent weeks, many employers across the country have instructed their employees to continue working remotely, putting a halt to company return-to-office plans....