Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently denied Quicken Loans, Inc.’s petition for review of an NLRB decision finding that confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in the company’s...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: DOL states that the Rule is only applicable to arrangements and agreements made on or after July 1, 2016, and to payments made pursuant to arrangements and agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2016....more
The plaintiffs in the first lawsuit challenging the Final Persuader Rule have filed a motion for preliminary injunction, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks to file an amicus brief in support of that motion.
In...more
In follow-up to our earlier blog post about the first lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Persuader Rule that was promulgated in late March, two additional lawsuits have been filed challenging the Final...more
4/5/2016
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Persuader Rules ,
Regulatory Flexibility Act ,
Unions ,
Vagueness
Yesterday, a group of plaintiffs (including a trade association, the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, the National Association of Manufacturers, and a law firm) filed suit in the United...more
In an unpublished decision (Blommer Chocolate Co. of California, LLC, Case No. 32-RC-131048) issued on February 17, the NLRB set aside the results of an election in which the tally of ballots was 18 for and 50 against the...more
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed into law the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015” (the “Act”), a substantial piece of tax legislation that, among many other provisions, contains significant changes...more
After the NLRB’s expedited election rules went into effect last April, the extent to which an employer faced with a union representation petition must search for and provide voters’ personal email addresses and cell phone...more
10/20/2015
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Contacts List ,
Corporate Counsel ,
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Employer Liability Issues ,
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Hospitals ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
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Union Elections ,
Unions
We previously blogged about the NLRB’s relatively shocking September 2012 decision in Finley Hospital (359 NLRB No. 9), in which the Board held that an employer was required to continue providing wage increases after the...more