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The National Labor Relations Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1935 to prevent labor strife by encouraging collective bargaining, protecting concerted activity and curtailing certain unfair labor... more +

Judge nixes termination of NLRB member

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 3/7/2025

The Board has a quorum again . . . for now. In one of his first acts after taking office, President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board and former Chairman....more

BREAKING: Texas District Court Strikes Down NLRA Joint Employer Rule

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 3/11/2024

On March 8, just three days before the National Labor Relations Board’s (the “Board”) new joint-employer standard was set to take effect, Judge J. Campbell Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas...more

Oh the Horror: No Work for Hire in Friday the 13th Screenplay

McDermott Will & Schulte on 10/14/2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a summary judgment grant, ruling that an author was an independent contractor when writing the screenplay for a horror film and entitled to authorship rights, and...more

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights: Issue 4, 2019

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/18/2019

Welcome to the fourth quarter edition of SuperVision, the e-newsletter from Spilman Thomas & Battle's Labor & Employment Law Group. Just as we were going to press, the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") issued two...more

NJ DOL Bills Uber $650M for Misclassified Drivers

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/20/2019

The New Jersey Department of Labor (NJ DOL) billed Uber Technologies, Inc. and a subsidiary $650 million for past-due taxes, interest, and penalties due to an alleged misclassification of its drivers as independent...more

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