The hits just kept coming from the National Labor Relations Board in 2024. The final year of the Biden board produced a flurry of decisions that kept labor practitioners on their toes. It seemed that each month, there was a...more
2/14/2025
/ Biden Administration ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Proposed Rules ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
Introduction - 2023 may prove to be a landmark year for U.S. labor law. There were several significant changes in the law that left employers reeling. The breadth and depth of these changes were staggering even for seasoned...more
2/21/2024
/ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Non-Disparagement Provisions ,
Severance Agreements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Trade Secrets ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
Now more than ever, it seems that employees are willing to express themselves. While open communication with and among employees is usually a good thing, sometimes an employer’s rules are broken in the process. A worker...more
No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. You read that correctly. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently affirmed a ruling by the NLRB which found an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act...more
INTRODUCTION -
In our last Review, we reported that the National Labor Relations Board had a very busy year. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was also a fairly busy year for the Board. In its final...more
If 2018 was a year of elevator music at the National Labor Relations Board, 2019 was symphony of sound. The Board’s initiatives were varied, high-profile and in the vast majority of cases, the developments were positives for...more
3/2/2020
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Email Policies ,
Employer Rights ,
Freelance Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Internal Investigations ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
Misclassification ,
New Rules ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Purple Communications ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Union Elections ,
Union Organizers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Waivers
In 2014, the NLRB held in Purple Communications that employers must allow their employees to use company email systems to engage in union activities and other protected conduct under the National Labor Relations Act. Last...more
12/19/2019
/ Electronic Communications ,
Email ,
Email Policies ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Purple Communications ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Section 7 ,
Union Organizers ,
Unions
Although in many respects it was a slow year for the National Labor Relations Board, it was a year of progress in the eyes of many employers. The Board operated at full strength for the entire year, with Republican John Ring...more
2/28/2019
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Duty of Fair Representation ,
Email Policies ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
SCOTUS