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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
Employers can expect a definite shift in the National Labor Relations Board under the new Trump Administration. Following President Joe Biden’s 2020 election, labor and employment law practitioners saw sweeping legal...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
On May 30, 2023, Jennifer Abruzzo, General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued a memorandum to all regional offices stating that non-compete agreements in employment contracts and severance...more
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), Jennifer A. Abruzzo, recently issued a memorandum stating that “the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement” of noncompete provisions in employment...more
Abruzzo has been busy. Within the last few months, she has issued two notable memorandums that could have significant impacts on how employers must comply with the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). It is important to...more
Challenges to non-competes by the federal government continue unabated under the Biden Administration. In the latest effort by the federal government to curtail the use of non-competes, which are traditionally governed by...more
Following the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) highly-controversial decision in McLaren Macomb declaring most confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in separation agreements to be unlawful, General Counsel...more
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) set her sights on a new target with the latest memorandum: non-competition agreements. The memorandum, while not binding, lays out the General Counsel’s...more
The General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) recently issued Memorandum GC 23-05 (the “Memorandum”), expansively interpreting the reach of the McLaren Macomb (“McLaren”) decision and raising more...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