The Revised Protocol establishes best practices by which multi-jurisdictional class actions may be coordinated among courts in circumstances that do not involve settlements.

Fred Headon, the President of the Canadian Bar Association, publicly reinforced the importance of the Canadian judicial system in an interview last week.

According to the guarantor, it should be excused from its obligations because it was essentially the same as the borrower, and thus protected by California's anti-deficiency laws.

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments in Puglia v. Elk Pipeline, Inc., on whether claims under the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA") were preempted by the federal Labor-Management Relations Act ("LMRA").

On the 30th of June 2025, several collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) were going to expire.

On August 7, 2019, in Kelly v. Honeywell International, the Second Circuit handed down the latest decision in a series of cases across the country on a company's obligation to provide lifetime health care to retirees.

In a decision dated September 30, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employers must continue to collect voluntarily authorized union dues from the paychecks of employees...

On June 27, 2025, the National Hockey League ("NHL") and National Hockey League Players' Association ("NHLPA") announced the ratification of the extension of the collective bargaining agreement...

On July 31, 2019, Mexico's Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaria del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS)) published in the Official Gazette of the Federation

On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter addressing whether an employer and union could enter into a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)...

On February 6, 2012, the Competition Bureau announced that as part of its efforts to increase transparency in the merger review process it will begin publishing monthly reports of concluded mergers.

Please join the survey architects and authors on Thursday, July 15 for a moderated discussion revealing the 2021 CCCA/ Mondaq survey results.

An Illinois state appellate court recently confirmed that Railway Labor Act "minor dispute" preemption is alive and well as a potential defense to state-law retaliatory discharge claims.

The closing agreement stated that healthcare coverage "shall continue" for retirees and their spouses as provided in the applicable CBA.

On February 5, 2025, in Xerox Corp. v. Loc. 14A, Rochester Reg'l Joint Bd., Xerographic Div. Workers United, No. 23-634, 2025 WL 395729 (2d Cir. Feb. 5, 2025)...

Executive Summary: In a 3-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) reversed long-held Board precedent regarding when unionized employers may unilaterally change a term

On March 30, 2022, three judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overruled prior precedent allowing "implied" contracts to survive the expiration of a written agreement.

In a recent decision declining to overturn the arbitration board despite their disagreement and even "bewilderment" with the decision ..

A term of mutual trust and confidence is implied into contracts of employment unless it is expressly excluded.

Despite the Supreme Court's guidance in Tackett, retirees continued to file suits, urging courts to look to extrinsic evidence to find vested health care benefits.