News & Analysis as of

Public Sector First Amendment

Lathrop GPM

Now What? Navigating the DEI Executive Orders and Ongoing Legal Challenges to Their Enforcement

Lathrop GPM on

Since taking office in January, President Trump has signed a flurry of Executive Orders (EOs) on a wide range of topics. Few EOs, however, have generated as much attention and uncertainty as Executive Order 14151 and...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rejects Nonunion Employees’ Challenge to Unions’ Exclusive Representation of Unit Employees...

In Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466 (June 27, 2018), the Supreme Court of the United States significantly expanded the rights of nonunion public employees by...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Fallout From Janus Continues – Pennsylvania Introduces Bill That Would Allow Non-Union Public-Sector Employees To Participate...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: A mere six weeks after the Supreme Court held that fair share or agency fees for public-sector unions are unconstitutional in Janus v. AFSCME, Pennsylvania introduces a bill that would require public-sector...more

Fisher Phillips

After The Levee Breaks: How Will Unions Respond To A Post-Janus World

Fisher Phillips on

On the final day of the Supreme Court’s just-completed term, it issued its long-awaited decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, changing the labor law landscape as we know it. The case involved the compulsory “fair share”...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

In a blow to public unions, SCOTUS holds that public employees cannot be required to pay union fees

Bricker Graydon LLP on

On June 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector employees who are not members of the union do not have to pay so-called “agency fees,” because requiring such payments violates their First...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

The Final Chapter: The Supreme Court Overrules Abood In Janus V. AFSCME And Changes The Face Of Public Sector Labor Relations

Amundsen Davis LLC on

On June 27, 2018, the United States Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking decision in Janus v. AFSCME eliminating the public sector fair share requirement and thus changing the face of public sector labor. The Janus case,...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

An early Halloween trick for Connecticut's public-sector labor unions: Will Janus V. AFSCME, Co. 31 be the end of the agency shop?

Did Halloween come early this year? Well it just may have for Connecticut’s public-sector unions. On September 28th, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and...more

Roetzel & Andress

Supreme Court To Revisit Public Sector Union Fees

Roetzel & Andress on

The U.S. Supreme Court will again take up the question of whether making public sector employees pay fees to unions violates their First Amendment rights. On September 28, 2017, the Court said it will review a 7th Circuit...more

Burr & Forman

4th Circuit sets a match to battalion chief's First Amendment claims

Burr & Forman on

Lately, we’ve been seeing more cases in which public-sector employees accuse their governmental employer of violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such claims can arise in many ways, but with the...more

Littler

Ninth Circuit Holds Section 1983 First Amendment Retaliation Claim Not Necessarily Precluded By Age Discrimination in Employment...

Littler on

On August 5, 2016, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) does not preclude a First Amendment retaliation claim under section 1983 of the federal Civil Rights...more

Franczek P.C.

Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Public Section Union “Fair Share Fees”

Franczek P.C. on

On June 30th, the United State Supreme Court granted certiorari in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, and will consider whether public sector agency shop arrangements, also known as “fair share” contractual...more

11 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide