On May 20, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law Senate Bill 5408 to amend the state’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA). SB 5408 makes significant changes to the EPOA, including by clarifying the...more
President-elect Biden has long been allied with the labor movement, and during his tenure as vice president, the administration pursued policies favorable to organized labor. The same should be expected following his January...more
12/3/2020
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Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Private Sector ,
Public Sector Unions ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a press release on April 1, 2020, stating that,
The National Labor Relations Board will not extend its temporary suspension of Board-conducted elections past April 3, 2020 and...more
4/13/2020
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Union Elections ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
On September 5, 2019, the Washington Supreme Court held that non-agricultural employees do not have to be paid a separate hourly rate for time spent on non-piece-rate activities. Further, workweek averaging, as described in...more
Most employers have heard the news that the once-paused EEO-1 pay data reporting requirements are now live, and the deadline to respond is set for September 30, 2019. Many employers will rush to collect the necessary data in...more
5/2/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
The U.S. Supreme Court this week overruled longstanding precedent to hold that public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees who have opted not to join a union. Janus v. AFSCME, ___ U.S....more
7/2/2018
/ Appeals ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Fair Share Contribution ,
First Amendment ,
Janus v AFSCME ,
Non-Union ,
Payroll Deductions ,
Public Sector Unions ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Stare Decisis ,
Union Dues
The decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week in BFI Newby Island Recyclery expands the circumstances in which two otherwise separate and independent employers may be found to be joint employers of a...more
9/1/2015
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Franchisee ,
Franchisors ,
General Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Subcontractors ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour