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After several months without a functioning quorum, President Trump nominated James Murphy and Scott Mayer to fill vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board late last week, signaling the potential for a significant...more
Can you still have noncompete agreements with your employees? What if you explicitly state that the agreement protects trade secrets or other proprietary information? There has been a lot of buzz about this issue, and...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found its first target under recent guidance issued in a memo from its General Counsel claiming that noncompete agreements may violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) on Feb. 21, 2023, issued the McLaren Macomb decision (372 NLRB No. 580) significantly restricting an employer's right to proffer to employees severance agreements that...more
The recent pendulum-swinging NLRB decision that invalidated confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in severance agreements will have far-reaching effects on employers that utilize them during layoffs or other...more
On March 22, 2023, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued GC Memo 23-05 providing guidance on the recent decision in McLaren Macomb. Below are some of the notable points set forth in the...more
On March 22, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) issued formal guidance in response to inquiries about applying McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (February 21, 2023). McLaren Macomb, which was...more
In February 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) ruled in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (2023), that employee severance agreements with overly broad confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions...more
On March 22, 2023, the NLRB's General Counsel issued a Memorandum (the “Memo”) providing guidance on the scope and effect of the National Labor Relations Board’s (the “NLRB”) decision in McLaren Macomb, which found overbroad...more
Key Points - The NLRB’s General Counsel issued a memorandum providing her position on the NLRB’s recent decision in McLaren Macomb, holding that employers may not offer severance agreements with broad confidentiality or...more
The NLRB’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has released a memo offering further guidance on the Board’s recent decision in McLaren Macomb. In our previous post addressing that decision, we highlighted several outstanding...more
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a decision in McLaren Macomb providing that employers violate federal labor law when they require employees to sign severance agreements...more
As noted in our prior client alerts (Employers Beware – Your Confidentiality Provisions May Come Back to Bite You and Concrete Steps Employers Should Consider When Drafting Severance Agreements in the Wake of McLaren Macomb),...more
Following the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) recent decision in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (Feb. 21, 2023) (Decision), on March 22, 2023, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum...more
Last week, on March 22, 2023, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Jennifer Abruzzo, released Memorandum GC 23-05, which provides clarification of the recent McLaren Macomb decision....more
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo issued guidance on the Board’s recent decision regarding severance agreements. In McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58, the Board found that...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “the Board”) recently issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (2023), holding that severance agreements containing overly broad non-disparagement or...more
Approximately a month after the Board issued McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58, which left employers scrambling to decipher its unclear impact on both unionized and non-unionized workplaces, Jennifer Abruzzo, the General...more
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memo setting forth her views regarding the future of severance agreements in the wake of the Board's recent decision in McLaren Macomb....more
Executive Summary: As discussed in our February 23, 2023 Legal Alert, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) recently held in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58, that an employer violates Section 8(a)(1) of the...more
On March 22, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum clarifying the Board’s February 2023 decision that nondisparagement and confidentiality provisions in...more
As foreshadowed by the NLRB General Counsel’s August 2021 Advice Memorandum, the vacillating standard for the legality of employer handbooks and policies and confidentiality requirements during open employer-investigations...more