On February 14, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a Memorandum announcing the rescission of many of the memoranda issued by his predecessor, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. GC Abruzzo...more
2/21/2025
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Constitutional Challenges ,
Employment Litigation ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Quorum ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rescission ,
Trump Administration ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
They are not employer-friendly.
On October 26, the National Labor Relations Board, by a 3 to 1 vote, issued regulations with a new standard for determining “joint employer” status under the National Labor Relations Act....more
10/31/2023
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Compensation & Benefits ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Duties ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Supervision ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The National Labor Relations Board, by a 3 to 1 vote, has dramatically changed the playing field for employees seeking to exercise their Section 7 right to select a bargaining representative or to refrain from such. The...more
9/1/2023
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Cemex ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Section 7 ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Elections ,
Unions
On Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board, in a 3-2 decision, expanded the remedy available for unfair labor practices to include a make-whole remedy for "all direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” resulting from the...more
The Biden Administration’s efforts at adjusting the balance of labor relations toward the interests of organized labor, at least for now, must largely fall back on non-legislative means, given the Republican capture of the...more
12/7/2022
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Federal Register ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Proposed Rules ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Elections ,
Unions
Labor law, along with other employment-related policy matters, is at the forefront of the political, economic, and oftentimes cultural divide in the nation. With the change in Presidential administrations, some knowledgeable...more
1/21/2021
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Biden Administration ,
Boycotts ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Multi-Employer Pensions ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Taft-Hartley Act ,
Trump Administration ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board issued notice of the first stage of newly proposed representation case regulations, which were published this morning in the Federal Register. The Republican Board majority...more
For the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed a setback to the efforts of the Obama Administration to make appointments to leadership positions in the National Labor Relations Board. In Noel Canning (2014), the...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS -
Class arbitration cases continue to stack up at Supreme Court. The National Labor Relations Board on September 9 petitioned the Court for certiorari in NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. The lower court...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS
- Death of Justice Antonin Scalia may create 4-4 split in case involving public employee union agency fees - In January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Friedrichs v. California, a case in...more
2/25/2016
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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Free Speech ,
Friedrichs v CA Teachers Association ,
Joint Employers ,
Justice Scalia ,
Longshoremen ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
Public Employees ,
Right to Work ,
Teachers ,
UAW ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Dues ,
Volkswagen ,
Wage and Hour