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NLRB Adopts Final Regulations to Restrict Employee Choice on Union Representation

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) on August 1 published a new rule addressing three distinct situations affecting employees’ rights to decide whether they want union representation (New Rule). The New Rule...more

OSHA Issues Final ‘Walkaround Rule’ Giving Unions and Other Third Parties Access to Private Employer Worksites

A new rule from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) affords unions, labor activists, and other third parties access to private worksites during workplace inspections....more

NLRB Extends Protection to Political and Social Justice Displays in the Workplace

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) recently expanded the types of messaging employees are permitted to display in the workplace when it ruled an employee’s Black Lives Matter uniform marking was protected...more

The Trends—and Traps—that Will Shape 2024

At a time marked by themes of “push” and “pull,” organizations across all sectors and jurisdictions are grappling with the pursuit of innovation within an increasingly complex regulatory framework. Over the next 12 months,...more

OSHA’s ‘Union Walkaround Rule’ Heads Toward Finalization Following Comment Period

A recent proposed rulemaking from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) seeks to make it easier for unions and other third parties to gain access to private worksites, creating steep consequences for...more

NLRB and OSHA Announce Partnership Over Worker Safety Protections

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on October 31 regarding a partnership designed to strengthen their efforts to...more

New NLRB Rules Favor Mandatory Union Recognition & Limit Employee Voting in Secret-Ballot Elections

The National Labor Relations Board drastically changed the process for unions seeking recognition of most private sector employees in the United States. Abandoning 50 years of established law, in Cemex Construction Materials...more

NLRB Adopts New Standard for Assessing Facial Lawfulness of Employer Work Rules

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board), in a 3-1 decision on August 1, 2023, once again overruled existing precedent and declared that all employer work rules that reasonably could be read to restrict Section...more

NLRB Returns to Pre-2019 Independent Contractor Standard Making It Easier for Workers To Be Considered Employees

In The Atlanta Opera Inc., the National Labor Relations Board once again changed the standard for determining independent contractor status under the National Labor Relations Act, returning  to its pre-2019 standard making it...more

US Supreme Court Says Egregious Strike Misconduct Subject to Employer State Court Damages Action

In a recent 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court held that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act) does not preempt state claims against unions for intentional property damage during a strike. The decision reaffirms...more

NLRB General Counsel: Noncompete Agreements Violate Federal Labor Law

The US National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) general counsel issued guidance on May 30 announcing that noncompete provisions contained in many employment agreements violate the National Labor Relations Act unless narrowly...more

Is the Tech Industry Ready for an Uptick in Congressional Investigations?

With Democrats controlling the executive branch and the US Senate and Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, there are deep divisions in the US government over issues that affect the technology industry....more

NLRB Returns to Liberalized Section 7 Protection for Workplace Misconduct Incidents

The National Labor Relations Board’s recent decision in Lion Elastomers reinstated setting-specific standards to assess how employers respond to employee misconduct, including potentially profane, discriminatory, and...more

New NLRB Guidance Sheds Light on McLaren Decision and Severance Agreements

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

Employer Alert: Commonplace Severance Agreement Clauses Violate Labor Law, NLRB Rules

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a decision on February 21 in McLaren Macomb (372 NLRB No. 58) overruling precedent to hold that employers may not offer employees severance agreements containing...more

US Supreme Court Invalidates NLRB Acting General Counsel Appointment

Employers should assess the impact of this decision in any NLRB case that was prosecuted by former acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon. On March 21, the US Supreme Court in a 6-2 decision in NLRB v. S.W. General, Inc....more

Recent Developments in the NLRB’s Joint and Single Employer Doctrines

Highlights of recent developments relevant to all employers. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) is poised to return to a Republican majority, which likely will result in a change in labor law philosophy....more

NLRB Vastly Expands Its Joint-Employer Standard

The Browning-Ferris decision overturns 30 years of precedent and opens up a wide variety of business relationships to allegations of joint-employer status, including staffing agencies, on-site contractors, outside suppliers,...more

President Obama Signs the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014

New legislation is enacted to assist and fortify deeply troubled multiemployer pension plans. On December 16, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law sweeping changes to the current law that governs multiemployer...more

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Historic Noel Canning Decision

The unanimous decision on presidential recess appointment powers strikes down three National Labor Relations Board recess appointments and effectively invalidates hundreds of Board decisions issued between January 2012 and...more

D.C. Circuit Rules NLRB Recess Appointments Unconstitutional

The ruling places in substantial doubt the validity of any NLRB decision or action since January 4, 2012, and calls into question the scope of the president's recess appointment power more generally. On January 25, in...more

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