Employment Policies, Union Representatives, Employee Rights

The Investigative Interview: Best Practices When Interacting with Third Persons

Oppenheimer Investigations Group on 4/7/2025

An investigative interview is an opportunity for the investigator to gather relevant facts related to a concern in a workplace. The role of the investigator during an investigative interview is to hear the perspective of the...more

Illinois Joins Trend to Ban “Captive Audience” Meetings: 5 Steps Employers Can Take to Comply

Fisher Phillips on 8/7/2024

Illinois just became the latest state to ban employers from holding mandatory meetings with employees concerning religious or political matters, including discussions on union representation. Such employer-sponsored meetings,...more

Oklahoma City Apple Store votes to unionize

McAfee & Taft on 10/18/2022

When Apple’s Penn Square Mall retail store in Oklahoma City voted on Friday to unionize, it became the tech giant’s second location in the United States to do so. Is this a trend for other Oklahoma employers? Count on...more

The Scabby Saga Continues

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Employment Law... on 7/27/2021

The battle over Scabby the Rat took another turn on July 21, 2021, when the National Labor Relations Board issued its anticipated decision and order in International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 and Lippert...more

No, Unions Do Not Have A Free Speech Right To Engage In Unlawful Secondary Boycott Activity, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 10/31/2019

On October 28, 2019, the Ninth Circuit, following in the footsteps of the D.C. Circuit and the Second Circuit, affirmed an order entered by the NLRB confirming that prohibitions on secondary boycotts under Section...more

Labor Board Further Tightens Union Access To Employer Property

Fisher Phillips on 9/10/2019

Labor Board Further Tightens Union Access To Employer Property - In yet another ruling that levels the labor relations playing field, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Friday that employers could rightfully...more

NLRB Rules Employer’s Handbook Statement That Benefit Available To “Non-Union Employees” Violates Act

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 2/27/2019

During the last decade, a number of NLRB decisions faulted employers for written policies that were considered to be overbroad in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. These rulings sprang largely from the NLRB’s...more

Is the NLRB Outlawing Confidentiality Policies?

Franczek P.C. on 9/4/2015

The National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) recently issued its decision in The Boeing Company case. The Board found that Boeing’s confidentiality policy regarding internal investigations violated the National Labor...more

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