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New NLRB Counsel Overturns Biden-Era Policies, Signaling Pro-Employer Shift

With one stroke of his pen, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new Acting General Counsel, William Cowen, has effectively dismantled more than two dozen key Biden-era initiatives that favored employees and unions. ...more

2/20/2025 / Biden Administration , Employee Rights , Employees , Employment Policies , Federal Labor Laws , Labor Reform , Labor Regulations , Labor Relations , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Non-Compete Agreements , Unions

NLRB General Counsel Calls for Monetary Relief for Unlawful Noncompetes

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has issued a memorandum (GC 25-01) that calls for monetary remedies in cases where noncompete covenants or “stay-or-pay” provisions are deemed to violate...more

10/11/2024 / Employee Rights , Employment Contract , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Non-Compete Agreements , Remedial Actions

In Latest Pro-Labor Rulings, NLRB Sharply Curtails Management’s Ability to Change Union Workers' Employment Terms

In a pair of decisions issued on Aug. 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) established new, restrictive standards for evaluating when a unionized employer may avoid bargaining over changes to employees’ terms...more

9/7/2023 / Collective Bargaining , Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) , Employer Liability Issues , Employment Terms , Labor Relations , Layoffs , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Raytheon , Unions

NLRB's New Framework for Union Organizing Puts Employers at a Severe Disadvantage

The National Labor Relations Board has issued a groundbreaking decision that jettisons 50 years of established law to provide unions a more favorable framework to organize nonunion companies. On the heels of new rules...more

8/29/2023 / Collective Bargaining , Employer Liability Issues , Labor Relations , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Teamsters , Unfair Labor Practices , Union Elections , Union Organizers , Unions

NLRB General Counsel Ratchets Up Effort to Prohibit Most Employment-Based Non-Competes

Jennifer Abruzzo, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), has called for non-compete agreements to be curtailed on a nationwide basis for a large swath of employees. In a recent memorandum – which is...more

6/1/2023 / Competition , Federal Trade Commission (FTC) , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Non-Compete Agreements

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Rules NLRA Does Not Protect BLM Messaging at Workplace

A National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) recently dismissed a complaint against Home Depot USA, Inc., in which the NLRB General Counsel (GC) alleged the company violated the National Labor Relations Act...more

6/22/2022 / Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) , Black Lives Matter , Corporate Counsel , Discrimination , Dress Codes , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Protected Activity , Unfair Labor Practices

NLRB GC Seeks to Curtail Employers’ Defenses to Union Organizing Amidst Huge Increase in Union Election Petitions

On April 6, the National Labor Relations Board announced that union representation petitions filed with the agency during the first six (6) months of the fiscal year had increased 57% from the previous year....more

4/11/2022 / NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Union Elections , Union Organizers , Unions

NLRB GC’s Extreme Agenda on Display at ABA Mid-Winter Meeting

Last week, the American Bar Association’s Section on Labor and Employment Law, Committee on the Developing Labor Law, gathered in Kauai for its annual mid-winter meeting, featuring presentations from top labor law attorneys...more

3/8/2022 / Employee Rights , Employment Policies , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Protected Activity

NLRB General Counsel Signals Stronger Enforcement Actions Against Employers, Part Two: ‘Seeking Full Remedies’

Last month, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued not one, but two memoranda directing Regional Offices to pursue a vastly expanded array of “remedies” against employers in unfair labor...more

10/14/2021 / Collective Bargaining , Employee Rights , Employer Liability Issues , Enforcement Actions , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Remedies , Unfair Labor Practices , Union Organizers

NLRB General Counsel Signals Much Stronger Enforcement Actions Against Employers

Last month, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued not one, but two memoranda directing Regional Offices to pursue a vastly expanded array of “remedies” against employers in unfair labor...more

10/6/2021 / Compensation , Corporate Counsel , Credit Ratings , Employer Liability Issues , Enforcement Actions , Joe Biden , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Settlement Agreements

Watch The Pendulum Swing – NLRB’s Acting GC Rolls Back Predecessor’s Guidance Memoranda

NLRB Acting General Counsel Peter Ohr is moving swiftly to put his stamp on national labor policy. Last week, my partner Andrew MacDonald blogged about Ohr’s withdrawal of a complaint that had challenged the use of a...more

2/9/2021 / Collective Bargaining , Duty of Fair Representation , NLRA , NLRB , NLRB General Counsel , Unions , Wage and Hour

Robert Nagle

Fox Rothschild LLP

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