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NLRB Expands the Definitions of "Protected" and "Concerted" and Expands Coverage of the National Labor Relations Act

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On August 31, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a pair of decisions that continue the agency's recent trend of broadening the reach of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). With these two...more

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What the Bleep!?: NLRB Makes it More Difficult to Discipline Employee Outbursts

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On Monday May 1, 2023, the NLRB issued a decision that makes it more difficult for employers to discipline or terminate employees who have engaged in "abusive conduct." This decision, Lion Elastomers LLC II, overturns the...more

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NLRB Recognizes Weingarten Rights for Strike Replacement Employees

In a decision significant to employers that employ strike replacement employees or that may consider hiring strike replacement employees, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that such employees hold the right to...more

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Is the NLRB Looking to Expand Weingarten Rights?

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A new National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) decision has laid the groundwork for the Board to extend “Weingarten” rights – the right of union employees to have a union representative accompany them at disciplinary...more

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Political and Controversial Activity in the Workplace [More with McGlinchey Ep. 11]

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Election season is in full swing and the climate is certainly charged. In this episode of “More with McGlinchey,” Labor and Employment attorneys Mag Bickford, Rasch Brown, Camille Bryant, and Kathy Conklin discuss employees’...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Employee’s Failed Attempt To Secure Union Representation Sufficient Notice of Weingarten Request, Divided NLRB Rules

One area of labor relations that continues to vex practitioners is the scope of the so-called Weingarten rights. NLRB v. J. Weingarten Inc., 420 U.S. 251 (1975). Some 43 years after the Supreme Court set forth the right that...more

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Discipline Based on Social Media Activity – An Update

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Social media is no longer trendy. It’s commonplace, and so is discipline imposed because an employee posts something inappropriate. According to a Proskauer survey, 70 percent of employers report taking disciplinary action...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

NLRB Says Employer Cannot Suspend Employee for Posting Disciplinary Warning

Over the past several years, EmployNews has reported on dozens of National Labor Relations Board cases expanding the concept of employee rights in even non-unionized workplaces. Earlier this month, the NLRB added to this list...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

D.C. Circuit Releases Employer From NLRB Jail

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We have frequently commented on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) expansion and creation of sweeping protections to employees engaging in union organizing and other activities protected under the National Labor...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

Disciplinary Investigations of Employees – Three Names to Know

Whenever an employer is considering disciplining an employee for misconduct, three names from 1967, 1975 and 1985 continue to be associated with employer investigations and interrogations, in much the same way that Mr....more

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