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Is the Unionization of Uber and Lyft Drivers On California’s Horizon?

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On April 10, 2025, California legislators introduced Assembly Bill 1340, also known as the Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relations Act, which would afford drivers of app-based transportation companies such as...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

September 2024 California Employment Law Notes

We invite you to review our newly-posted September 2024 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Foley Automotive Update - February 2024 - 2

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This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - Nearly 9,000 UAW members at Ford’s largest truck plant in Kentucky...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

California Employment Law Notes - May 2023

Art Teacher’s Age Discrimination Case May Not Be Barred By “Ministerial Exception” - Atkins v. St. Cecilia Catholic Sch., 2023 WL 3142316 (Cal. Ct. App. 2023) - Frances Atkins was a long-term employee of St. Cecilia...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash Pledge $90 Million To Fund Voter Initiative To Overturn Assembly Bill 5

Assembly Bill 5, a proposed new law currently pending in the California legislature, would limit and codify last year’s California Supreme Court Dynamex opinion. If passed and signed into law by Gov. Newsom (he’s already said...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - May 2019

This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including regarding a DOJ appeal of the EEOC's heightened pay reporting requirements, the NLRB's decision narrowing the circumstances under...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

NLRB Releases Advice Memos On Gig Workers, Inflatable Critters, And More

With maybe some relief for employers. This week, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board publicly released some advice memoranda that indicate better times for employers and possibly tougher times for...more

Fisher Phillips

March 2019: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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January 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

NLRB Overturns 2014 Independent Contractor Test

In a decision with major implications for companies in the “gig economy,” on January 25 the National Labor Relations Board reversed an Obama-era case that established a tougher test for companies to contend that their workers...more

Fisher Phillips

October 2018: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Game On! Federal Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Challenge to Seattle’s Gig Worker Union Organizing Ordinance

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If you’ve been following the legal fight over Seattle’s 2015 proposal to permit ride-sharing drivers who work for companies such as Uber and Lyft to organize and form the country’s first gig economy unions, you might feel...more

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Web Exclusive: January 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017—and if January is any...more

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Next Round In Seattle’s Gig Worker Union Organizing Fight

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument today over a proposal that would permit ride-sharing drivers who work for companies such as Uber and Lyft to organize and form unions. Given what could be at stake—the potential...more

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Uber-Union Partnership May Jumpstart the “Portable Benefits” Movement in the Gig Economy

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Of all the public policy debates surrounding the gig economy of late, one of the hottest topics has been “portable benefits” – the concept that gig economy workers should have flexible, portable benefits that they can take...more

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Inside ADR - November 2017

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Dispute Deemed Minor under the Railway Labor Act, Sent To Arbitration - Flight Options, LLC and Flexjet LLC v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters 2017 WL 4583014 United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit The...more

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Ninth Circuit Pauses Seattle Ride-Share Union Ordinance, But Uncertainty Remains

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Recently, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked the implementation of Seattle Ordinance 124968, which would allow drivers for ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft to form unions, while a suit over...more

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Seattle Ordinance Allowing Ride-Sharing Drivers To Unionize Temporarily Blocked By Ninth Circuit

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked enforcement of the City of Seattle’s Ordinance 124968, which grants certain collective bargaining rights to independent contractors who drive for ride-sharing...more

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Court Ruling Means We’re One Step Closer To A Unionized Gig Economy

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The battle over organizing workers in the on-demand economy continues to heat up. Yesterday, a federal court in Washington dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others challenging the City of Seattle’s...more

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Seattle’s Attempt to Unionize On-Demand Economy Dealt First Blow

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Not two weeks ago, we discussed several active court cases seeking to challenge the City of Seattle’s first-of-its-kind ordinance aimed at unionizing ride-sharing drivers, pointing out that the battle was about to reach a...more

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Fight Over Seattle’s Attempt To Unionize On-Demand Economy Reaches Critical Point

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If the City of Seattle has its way, your next ride-sharing driver could be part of a first-of-its-kind union. And if on-demand economy companies have their way, the courts will block any such unionization efforts before they...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Employment Matters – UK - February 2017

New Cases Highlighting When "Gig Economy" Workers Are Entitled to Employment Rights - The "gig economy" is characterised by work performed on a short-term/temporary basis, in contrast to more traditional long-term roles....more

McGuireWoods LLP

Labor Relations Today: 2016 Year In Review

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Introduction - In the final year of his two term tenure, President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor continued their double barrelled efforts to remake labor law to benefit labor...more

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Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: September 2016 #2

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Last week, as we learned that the CIA has invested in another Big Data analytics startup, new headlines and commentary addressed the dangers of hidden bias in technology. LinkedIn changed its search algorithm after the...more

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July 2016 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update

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Four of the five independent contractor (IC) misclassification cases reported below from July 2016 illustrate how companies continue to fail to structure, document, and implement a business’s IC relationships in a manner that...more

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