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The Illinois Register outlines the agenda for the November meeting of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, scheduled for November 12, 2024, in Springfield, Illinois. The meeting will include roll call, approval of previous minutes, and consideration of various proposed rulemakings across different sectors such as agriculture, commerce, emergency management, financial regulation, human services, labor relations, public health, and revenue. Members of the public can submit written comments on proposed rulemakings to the JCAR office for consideration. The meeting will also address agency responses and announce the date of the next JCAR meeting before adjourning. [Extracted from the article]

The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and US East and Gulf coast employers have 90 days to negotiate a range of complex issues, including terminal automation, royalties, work rules, and job jurisdiction. The recent strike was ended by a provisional deal on wages, but negotiations on other points are expected to be difficult. The ILA is demanding a ban on automation, while employers want to preserve growth opportunities through automation. The Biden administration pressured both sides to reach an agreement to avoid further disruption at the ports. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: Laura Husband IndustriALL Global Union and banned Myanmar unions CTUM and IWFM filed complaints to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s National Contact Points (NCPs) against UK [...]

The NLRB filed a complaint against Apple, alleging labor law violations and retaliation. Cher Scarlett, a former Apple engineer, initiated charges after she said she faced retaliation. The NLRB seeks [...]

The Times Tech Guild, a group representing more than 600 software developers and data analysts at The New York Times, went on strike on Monday morning, just as the paper [...]

The Employment Rights Bill 2024, unveiled last week, has lived up to the new Labour government's promise that it would represent 'the biggest shake-up in workers' rights in 30 years'. [...]

Boeing has filed an unfair labor practice claim with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing 33,000 factory workers on the U.S. West Coast of 'bad faith bargaining'. The workers, [...]

SAG-AFTRA said it called a strike Tuesday against popular online video game 'League of Legends,' after a company that produces the game tried to subvert the video game strike. The [...]

Byline: Dani Cole US labour union the UAW has said it has filed federal unfair labour practices charges at the National Labor Relations Board for Stellantis' refusal to provide information [...]

Workers have been promised a major overhaul of workplace rights but concerns are emerging even before MPs have started debating the flagship legislation. The Employment Rights Bill was included in [...]

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is at odds with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds over plans to grant workers full employment rights from day one of a job, as concerns grow [...]

A former Twitter employee in Ireland won about $600,000 for unfair dismissal. Twitter assumed his resignation after he didn't respond to an email telling workers to commit to a 'hardcore' [...]

The article delves into the contentious issue of worker misclassification and its potential classification as an unfair method of competition, as discussed by FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya. It challenges the assertion that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission should address worker misclassification under the prohibition on unfair methods of competition in Section 5 of the FTC Act.

The Teamsters union said that its strikes against unfair labor practices are expanding, with Amazon staff across a number of U.S. states joining the union in its demonstrations, Reuters' Akash [...]

Amazon delivery drivers represented by Teamsters Local 396 in Palmdale, California, won a groundbreaking decision that sets the stage for Amazon delivery drivers across the country to organize with the [...]

The Crooked Media Workers Union came to a contract agreement with management on Friday, with the guild also withdrawing an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the company. “We’re delighted to [...]

The (https://www.wgaeast.org/crooked-media-hit-with-unfair-labor-practice-charge-over-union-busting/) Writers Guild of America East has filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge against Crooked Media, the company behind the popular Democratic podcast, “Pod Save America.” The charge [...]

Disney has reached a tentative contract agreement with some 14,000 workers at its California-based theme park, averting a potential strike that the union authorized in a July 19 vote. “We [...]

In a series of Wednesday tweets, union coalition Disney Workers Rising Bargaining Committee said, 'Breaking Alert: Tentative Agreement Reached on our Disney Contracts. We have fought hard for the past [...]

At first glance, today’s Supreme Court (https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-curbs-secs-enforcement-powers-d88fb59c) ruling striking down the SEC’s right to use its own administrative courts to enforce securities laws can be read as also imperiling the [...]