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Protecting Trade Secrets When Facing Lawsuits or Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Episode 138 -- Employee Relations and Engagement in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
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On February 14, 2025, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued Memorandum GC 25-05, rescinding certain memoranda issued by the former General Counsel. Former General Counsel Jennifer A....more
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
The National Labor Relations Board and unions have been busy. The NLRB received 3,286 union election petitions during FY 2024, up 27% since FY 2023 (when the NLRB received 2,593 petitions) and more than double the number of...more
The MOU - On August 28, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor (“Labor Agencies”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Justice – Antitrust Division and the Federal...more
As we have previously reported, from the time President Biden took office, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) began systematically reversing Trump-era policy, and shifting toward pro-union and...more
In its continuing repudiation of policies developed under the Trump Administration, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has published its Fair Choice-Employee Voice Final Rule....more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has been using a caffeinated approach to challenge employers in unfair labor practice disputes, with Section 10(j) injunction petitions at the top of the menu, often...more
The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) is the federal agency tasked with administering the National Labor Relations Act (the NLRA). Chief among its responsibilities is governing the union recognition process in the...more
A unanimous decision from the United States Supreme Court, issued on June 13, 2024, settles the split among the circuit courts concerning the factors to be considered by a court in considering a request by the National Labor...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Reversing a Trump Board case, the Biden Board recently found that an employer engaged in bad-faith bargaining based on adhering to its bargaining proposals—despite (1) the employer engaging in no unlawful...more
On May 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a petition for interim injunctive relief under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) that was filed by the...more
Through Board decisions, rule making, and NLRB General Counsel’s (“GC”) memoranda, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) continues to expand the potential penalties for employers found to have committed...more
Reversing the National Labor Relations Board’s decision in Sterns Produce Company v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected the Board’s reasoning that a company had engaged in unlawful surveillance...more
On February 26, 2024, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (the “Division”) adopted final rules for the Protections for Public Workers Act (PROPWA). As previously...more
In 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the NLRB or Board) continued to expand employee rights and protections in the workplace. The new regulations included limiting employers’ contract rights in relation to severance...more
As if it weren’t already clear that employers will be receiving only lumps of coal in their stockings from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this year (see e.g., here and here), on December 8, 2023, the NLRB’s General...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this week, by denying the employer’s motion to reconsider in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC, 372 NLRB No. 157 (2023), the National Labor Relations Board not only validated the...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a final rule on October 26, 2023, which addresses the standard under which two entities may be considered joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a final rule setting forth a new standard for joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The new rule, which is set to go into effect on...more
For over fifty years, the general process for determining employee support (or opposition) to collective bargaining remained fairly constant: the union gathers signed authorization cards to evidence a sufficient showing of...more
The NLRB has reversed decades of precedent and made it far easier for unions to represent employees, including manufacturers, without a secret ballot election. The NLRB’s new standard (announced in Cemex Construction...more
It’s a cruel summer for employers as the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued both new election rules, and a landmark decision that upended decades of precedent and lowered the threshold for the Board to issue...more
For more than 50 years, the National Labor Relations Board had held — with Supreme Court approval — that when a union claimed to represent an employer’s workforce, the employer could refuse to recognize the union, leaving the...more
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
On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC (N.L.R.B., Case 28-CA-230115) – upending over fifty years of established law and setting forth a new,...more