A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in the first decision compelling an employer to bargain based on its failure to petition for a representation election under the agency's reworked guardrails for union votes.
Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.
Two U.S. House Democrats on Monday urged the U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw its proposed rule for determining when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations, saying it would undermine worker protections by making it harder to hold larger businesses accountable.