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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
On February 14, 2025, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) acting General Counsel William B. Cowen rescinded several memoranda issued by the former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. The rescinded memoranda include, GC...more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
The General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“Board’) issued a Memorandum on May 30th delineating her position that noncompete agreements interfere with an employee’s rights under Section 7 of the National...more
Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") issued its decision and order in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (February 21, 2023), holding that certain confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions...more
In our latest edition of Employment Flash, we examine developments over the past three months, including the NLRB’s ruling regarding employees’ labor law rights in severance agreements, a Supreme Court decision that upheld...more
In a decision that affects union and non-union employers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently found that certain provisions often used in severance and release agreements violate the rights of employees under...more
The legal world has been reeling since the February 21, 2023 McLaren Macomb decision, in which the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) determined that standard non-disparagement and confidentiality...more
Various governmental bodies have recently restricted employers’ ability to use non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses. This alert briefly covers a few of those recent developments....more
On Feb. 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued its decision in McClaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 (2023), where it held that severance agreements with broad confidentiality and/or nondisparagement...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that nondisclosure and nondisparage provisions in severance agreements violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB noted provisions requiring...more
There’s been another flip-flop at the National Labor Relations Board. The target this time? Severance agreements. During the Trump administration, the NLRB issued a set of rulings that generally allowed employers to...more
Through a divided decision in the matter of McLaren Macomb, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) significantly restricted the use of confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in severance agreements for...more
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) returned to long-standing precedent that an employer may not offer severance conditioned on an employee’s agreement to broad nondisparagement and confidentiality...more
Executive Summary - On February 21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) reversed course from its own Trump-era precedent when it held that an employer’s offer of employee severance agreements with broad...more
The decision of the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) in McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58 ( Feb. 21, 2023), reinstates a limit on the confidentiality, non-disclosure, and non-disparagement clauses that employers may...more
Introduction - On 21 February 2023, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) held in McLaren Macomb that employers violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) when they present employees with...more
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) once again issued new precedent when holding that the mere proffer of a draft severance agreement containing broad confidentiality and...more
Two cents from an employment lawyer. My colleague David Phippen wrote an excellent bulletin about this week's McLaren Macomb decision from the National Labor Relations Board, in which the Board ruled that offering...more
On February 21, 2023, in McLaren Macomb, No. 07–CA–263041, the National Labor Relations Board held that confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions are prohibited in severance agreements where they purport to limit an...more
A pendulum-swinging decision from the National Labor Relations Board yesterday means that severance agreements – in both unionized and non-union workplaces – could once again be deemed unlawful if they could be construed to...more
An employer violated employee’s labor rights by offering her a separation agreement that contained unlawful terms ruled a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) administrative law judge (“ALJ”) in Baylor Univ. Med. Ctr.,...more