On November 26, 2025, a New York federal judge granted Amazon’s bid for a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of recent amendments to the Empire State’s State Employment Relations Act (“SERA”) that would have subjected most private-sector employers within the state to the jurisdiction of the Public Employment Relations Board
Pro-Employer Labor Law Reform Proposed by Senate GOP: What’s in the Package and Why It Matters
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Labor law reform resurfaces nearly every Congress, but rarely advances given polarized views. The National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”) has not been amended since 1984, yet proposals continue to recur—the Protect the Right to Organize Act (“PRO Act”) being the most recent high-profile example that stalled.
The…
Rejected, Again: The Sixth Circuit Denies NLRB Enhanced Remedies, Expanding Circuit Split
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We have been tracking the ongoing challenges to the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”) power to issue enhanced remedies under Thryv, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 22 (2022). In Thryv, the Board held that employees aggrieved by an unfair labor practice (“ULP”) charge under the National Labor Relations…
Off the Rails? Union Asks Supreme Court to Rein in Fifth Circuit
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We have been tracking the wave of constitutional challenges to the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”) structure and the divergent injunction standards emerging across circuits. (See here, here, here and here.)
In the latest development, on October 31, 2025, the Office and Professional Employees International…
Context Matters: Eighth Circuit Backs Home Depot’s Ban on BLM Apron Message Due To “Special Circumstances”
By Joshua Fox & Taylor Arluck on
On November 6, 2025, the Eighth Circuit vacated and remanded a split decision from the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”), holding that the Board improperly rejected Home Depot’s “special circumstances” and business-justification defenses to banning an employee’s BLM message on a customer-facing apron.
We previously covered the factual…
Fifth Circuit Denies Enforcement of NLRB’s Enhanced Remedies, Widening Circuit Split
By Joshua Fox & Taylor Arluck on
On October 31, 2025, the Fifth Circuit held that the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) impermissibly awarded compensatory damages to striking employees who were fired. As we reported here, the court’s ruling widens a circuit split between the Third and Ninth Circuits on available remedies under the…
Rejected: Ninth Circuit Denies Constitutional Attacks on NLRB
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On October 28, 2025, the Ninth Circuit, in a unanimous, published decision, rejected three key constitutional attacks on the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”), some of which have gained favor in other circuit courts, making it harder—for now—for employers to challenge Board proceedings in that jurisdiction. This decision…