Earlier this month, I posted about new labor law posters that employers need to use, perhaps as early as late January 2012.

Now on Wednesday comes news that the NLRB has adopted a final rule amending its election case procedures. Labor Relations Today reports that this will “shorten the time between the filing of a petition and the conduct of an election”. The rule is due to take effect April 30, 2012.

According to the NLRB:

“The rule is primarily focused on procedures followed by the NLRB in the minority of cases in which parties can’t agree on issues such as whether the employees covered by the election petition are an appropriate voting group. In such cases, the matter goes to a hearing in a regional office and the NLRB Regional Director decides the question and sets the election..."