After the pandemic began to ease, and labor availability was the lowest in recent history, many employees found themselves working more and more to fill the gaps in the workforce. That led to the trend popularized a year ago...more
2022 was a great year for U.S. labor unions and employees, but not so much for U.S. employers. The Biden National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dug in and got to work, reversing precedent and charting a course to reinterpret...more
Employers are facing an economic paradox. On one hand, employers are fighting incessant labor shortages. This has triggered a war for talent, which employers have waged against each other by offering ever-increasing and...more
Despite our best attempts to suppress the memory, we all remember it well. Just over two years ago, the pandemic triggered state-ordered shutdowns. Our economy obviously slowed to a crawl, and employers everywhere...more
In January, we wrote about Allegheny County’s paid sick leave regulations that took effect in December 2021. Now, we write to tell you that the regulations have changed. The change will affect only one key industry –...more
Historically, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) has not required federal contractors to submit proof that their written affirmative action plans were completed. The only time that a contractor had...more
INTRODUCTION -
2021 was the first year of National Labor Relations Board under President Biden. For years, the Board’s decisions and its approach generally have swung back and forth depending on whether there was a...more
1/31/2022
/ Boeing ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Protected Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Unions
INTRODUCTION -
In our last Review, we reported that the National Labor Relations Board had a very busy year. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was also a fairly busy year for the Board. In its final...more
After the country waited with anticipation for the better part of a year for a vaccine that would return us to some sense of normalcy, the FDA finally approved two vaccines in December. The plan was to vaccinate frontline...more
Yesterday, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) became effective, granting eligible employees emergency paid sick leave and emergency paid family leave in response to COVID-19. ...more
Yesterday, President Trump signed into law historic legislation that will have a significant impact on a many employers nation-wide. The legislation, called the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, has many provisions....more
If 2018 was a year of elevator music at the National Labor Relations Board, 2019 was symphony of sound. The Board’s initiatives were varied, high-profile and in the vast majority of cases, the developments were positives for...more
3/2/2020
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Email Policies ,
Employer Rights ,
Freelance Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Internal Investigations ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
Misclassification ,
New Rules ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Purple Communications ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Union Elections ,
Union Organizers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Waivers
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Janus v. AFCSME , holding that requiring public sector employees to pay fair share fees to unions violates the First Amendment. ...more
6/28/2018
/ Appeals ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Fair Share Contribution ,
First Amendment ,
Janus v AFSCME ,
Non-Union ,
Payroll Deductions ,
Public Sector Unions ,
Reversal ,
Stare Decisis ,
Union Dues
In November 2017, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an opinion concerning an arbitrator’s reinstatement of a state correctional officer (“CO”). The CO was responsible for monitoring inmates who worked on the...more
1/16/2018
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Department of Corrections ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Filing Grievances ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Prison ,
Public Employees ,
Reinstatement ,
Unions
Employers with 100 or more employees (and federal contractors with 50 or more employees) must submit an EEO-1 Report annually, detailing the race, gender, and ethnicity of its workforce. In September of 2016, the Equal...more
9/6/2017
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
VETS 4212 ,
Wage and Hour
In September of 2015, two delivery drivers filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The employees alleged that their former employer violated the Fair Labor...more
Back in 2015, Pittsburgh enacted a paid sick leave ordinance, following a trend among cities throughout the country. Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave ordinance required employers with fifteen employees or more to provide up to...more
In 2010, two employees filed a claim against their former employer, Robert Half International, Inc., alleging that it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). In addition to individual claims, the plaintiffs brought a...more
A few weeks ago, a jury in New Jersey federal court found that Lockheed Martin discriminated against a former employee. The employee claimed that Lockheed violated federal and state laws by discriminating against him on the...more
2/16/2017
/ ADEA ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Compensatory Damages ,
Discrimination ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Google ,
Lockheed Martin ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Punitive Damages ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
Just over thirty years ago, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (“the Act”). It requires that employers verify the identity and work authorization of the people they hire. It also mandates that such...more
Back on September 7, 2015, President Obama signed Executive Order 13706, which requires that certain federal contractors provide their employees up to fifty-six hours of paid sick leave per year. In February of this year, the...more
In a recent decision, the National Labor Relations Board confronted the issue of whether it has jurisdiction over The Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School (PVCS) – a school formed pursuant Pennsylvania’s Charter School Law. In...more