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Nov 19, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Diego Munhoz |Tiana Headley
Senate Democrats’ efforts to confirm as many judicial nominees as possible before the year’s end is running up against Republican obstructionism, prompting an all out war on the Senate floor over the shaping of the judiciary. Senators voted until midnight Monday after Republicans forced roll call votes on procedural motions that usually pass by unanimous consent.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Austin Ramsey |Diego Munhoz |Parker Purifoy
Boeing Co. workers are doubling down on reviving their legacy pensions, rejecting a labor deal with generous pay packages even as similar union efforts to restore those retirement benefits have failed. Two rounds of negotiations with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to end a five-week strike have resulted only in offers to boost worker 401(k)s, signaling restoration of pensions axed a decade ago may be more of a bargaining chip than a viable request.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Samantha Handler |Diego Munhoz
From the valets parking cars to the dealers at the blackjack tables to the bartenders at the city’s many bars, Las Vegas relies on people working for tips. “Las Vegas was built on tips,” said James Reza, a city native who owns two high-end beauty salons in town.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Samantha Handler |Diego Munhoz
(Bloomberg Law) -- From the valets parking cars to the dealers at the blackjack tables to the bartenders at the city’s many bars, Las Vegas relies on people working for tips. “Las Vegas was built on tips,” said James Reza, a city native who owns two high-end beauty salons in town. Around 17% of workers in Nevada—the highest concentration in the country—make their living through tipped work, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Robert Iafolla |Chris Marr |Diego Munhoz
Monday morning musings for workplace watchers. Labor Board IT Funding|Bipartisan Limits on NDAsRobert Iafolla and Diego Areas Munhoz: The National Labor Relations Board would get an extra $5 million to modernize its outdated case management system and information technology under a bipartisan spending bill recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The NLRB uses an electronic case management system called NxGen.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian K. Kullgren |Diego Munhoz
US Steel Corp.'s sale to a Japanese company will serve as a test of unions’ ability to wield US labor law—and political influence—to block the foreign takeover of a major domestic employer. The United Steelworkers union, which represents employees of the Pennsylvania-based company, says the firm’s sale to Nippon Steel Corp., announced Dec. 18, violates the terms of its collective bargaining agreement negotiated in 2022.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian K. Kullgren |Diego Munhoz
US Steel Corp.'s sale to a Japanese company will serve as a test of unions’ ability to wield US labor law—and political influence—to block the foreign takeover of a major domestic employer. The United Steelworkers union, which represents employees of the Pennsylvania-based company, says the firm’s sale to Nippon Steel Corp., announced Dec. 18, violates the terms of its collective bargaining agreement negotiated in 2022.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Diego Munhoz
The Senate failed to advance Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Labor’s largest subagency, dealing a major blow to the Biden administration and José Javier Rodríguez, whose nomination has stalled since July 2021,. The chamber voted 44-51 in a procedural cloture vote to advance his nomination to a final confirmation vote. Rodríguez was picked by President Joe Biden to head the Employment and Training Administration, which controls roughly three quarters of the DOL’s total appropriations.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
bloomberg.com | Oma Seddiq |Jo Constantz |Diego Munhoz
Congress must take a more active role in regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, business officials told a Senate panel debating how to harness the new technology. “I’m anti-regulation by DNA, but this is an area where I think the federal government ought to act responsibly and prudently,” Brad Newman, a Baker McKenzie partner who leads the firm’s AI practice, told a Senate panel Tuesday.
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May 22, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Diego Munhoz
The recent boom in artificial intelligence has put Congress on alert about how to prepare and qualify the US workforce for rapidly changing technologies. The potential uses for AI in industries across the economy means policymakers will have to confront how the new technology will impact the future of work. As experts predict massive disruptions, some in Congress fear automation could take out whole swaths of professions. AI’s effect on jobs is “really my biggest nightmare,” said Sen.
