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The Labor Law Insider - Elections Have Consequences: Labor Law Changes Anticipated Under Trump Administration, Part II
(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
A period of inactivity at the top adjudicative level of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may soon be over with the potential appointment of two new Board members. Last week, the President nominated Scott Mayer and...more
On June 16, 2025 President Trump announced two key nominations to the National Labor Relations Board: Scott Mayer and James Murphy. If confirmed, Mayer and Murphy will join Chairman Marvin Kaplan (Republican; term ends...more
On July 17, 2025, President Trump announced that he was nominating Scott Mayer and James R. Murphy, both Republicans, to serve as Members of the National Labor Relations Board....more
As we have previously reported, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) is likely to undergo substantial policy changes during President Trump’s second term. This process began when President Trump took the...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Acting General Counsel (GC) William Cowen issued GC Memo 25-05 to agency personnel in all field offices on February 14, 2025, seeking to refine the allocation of NLRB resources by...more
On March 6, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell held that Gwynne Wilcox, a former member of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) was “illegally” fired from her job. The court ordered the Board’s...more
Join us for an informative and engaging Spring Seminar hosted by our Labor and Employment team where you'll hear about the latest updates and key insights on the ever-evolving landscape of employment law. Our team will...more
The firing of National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo—and the rescission of many of the policies initiated under the Biden administration—is just the start of the new administration’s overhaul of labor...more
As the mainstream media has reported, President Trump is firing everyone he can (and maybe some he can’t) at the National Labor Relations Board. On day one, the president fired the NLRB’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, a...more
On February 14, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), William Cowen, issued a memo (GC 25-05) that rescinds a long list of memos by the previous General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo. Although...more
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
The National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel has moved quickly to undo the work of his predecessor, a Biden appointee, who President Trump recently removed from office. On February 14, 2025, Acting General...more
For the second time in four years, a U.S. president has quickly dismissed the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and replaced them with a new acting general counsel, who then immediately issued a...more
On Feb. 14, the NLRB’s acting GC, Cowen, issued a memorandum to Board personnel rescinding more than 30 “GC memoranda” issued by the former GC, Abruzzo. Cowen’s action – which had been expected after President Donald Trump...more
On February 14, 2025, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Acting General Counsel William B. Cowen rescinded a series of memoranda issued by his predecessor, Jennifer Abruzzo, including regarding remedies, rights of college...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
On January 27, 2025, the president removed National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne A. Wilcox, leaving the Board with only two members: Chair Marvin E. Kaplan, a Republican, and Member David M. Prouty, a Democrat. That...more
Two weeks after his inauguration, President Donald Trump continues to make unprecedented moves to impact the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....more
Summary - Makes it the policy of the executive branch that collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) reached in the 30 days prior to the inauguration of an incoming president shall not be approved. Instructs agency heads to...more
Late Monday night, President Trump made two major changes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), both of which will cause a major shift in the political leanings of the NLRB and one that may substantially impact the...more
President Donald Trump has re-appointed Marvin Kaplan to the position of Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The move follows the custom of elevating a member of the president’s party to Chair the Board...more
On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lacks the authority to order an employer to pay damages beyond what it unlawfully withheld from...more
With the United States Senate’s rejection of National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "Board") Chair Lauren McFerran’s reconfirmation on December 11, 2024, President Biden’s pro-labor era at the NLRB came to an end, and the...more
Decisions and policies under the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "Board") have become increasingly politicized the last few decades resulting in significant swings between pro-employer and pro-union/employee...more
Since 2019, employers have relied heavily on the management rights clauses in collective bargaining agreements to make unilateral workplace changes involving operational decisions. They did so with the protection of the...more