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Most countries provide some degree of workplace protection for employees and job applicants. Depending on the jurisdiction, these protections generally include safety precautions and policies, anti-discrimination policies, collective bargaining and unionizing rights, meal and rest requirements, minimum wage rules, and medical and family leave rights to name a few. In the United States, the federal framework for employee rights stem from statutes such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In addition, employee rights statutes are implemented and enforced by regulatory authorities such as the EEOC, NLRB, OSHA, and the Department of Labor. Further, many state and local governments provide additional and localized protections for employees that are enforced by local regulatory entities. less -

D.C. Circuit Court Rules NLRB’s Access to Property Test is Arbitrary

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 9/10/2021

General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, is already on her way to accomplishing one of the objectives she laid out in her recent Advice-Memorandum 21-04. In the GC’s memo, she identified a...more

Third Time The Charm? NLRB To Revisit Rights Of Contractor Employee Access To Employer Property

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/10/2021

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) must reconsider its newest ruling on the rights of certain employees to access private property to engage in activity on behalf of a union, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...more

NLRB rules employer can remove labor organizers from its parking lot

Bricker Graydon LLP on 10/31/2019

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued another decision benefitting employers by holding that an employer does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it removes from the employer’s parking...more

The NLRB Rules That Employers May Bar Union Representatives From Their Property Even Though They Have Allowed Other Third Parties...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/11/2019

Setting clear and reasonable standards for taking access to an employer’s private property is high on the National Labor Relations Board’s agenda. Not only is the Board talking about issuing formal rules in this area, but the...more

Labor Board Further Tightens Union Access To Employer Property

Fisher Phillips on 9/10/2019

Labor Board Further Tightens Union Access To Employer Property - In yet another ruling that levels the labor relations playing field, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Friday that employers could rightfully...more

NLRB: Property Rights Trump Off-Duty Employees’ Section 7 Rights

ArentFox Schiff on 8/30/2019

In a split decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) ruled last week that a property owner that is not in any underlying labor dispute, does not have to grant access to off-duty employees of an onsite...more

NLRB Further Expands Private Property Rights by Limiting Non-Employee Handbilling

FordHarrison on 8/27/2019

In a 3-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) ruled that a property owner may exclude from its property off-duty contractor employees engaged in Section 7 activity unless (1) those employees...more

ICE May Visit Your Company or University Campus – a Quick Checklist and Guidance

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/16/2019

Lately, ICE has been more active in making arrests of undocumented individuals. Statistically however, the number of arrests are very small and the “bark” is much bigger than the “bite.” Nonetheless, it is helpful for...more

NLRB Gives Employers Greater Discretion to Limit Union Activity on Their Premises

Stoel Rives - World of Employment on 6/19/2019

The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) recently issued a decision in UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside that reverses longstanding Board precedent and holds that employers no longer have to allow nonemployee union...more

Employers No Longer Have To Allow Union Representatives Use of Public Areas, NLRB Majority Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 6/18/2019

Citing judicial criticism, as well as the original Supreme Court decisions on the issue, the NLRB swept away years of precedent permitting union representatives to access public areas of an employer’s premises. In UPMC...more

NLRB Limits Union Access Rights to “Public Spaces” of Employers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/18/2019

On June 14, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued an important decision clarifying whether and when an employer may lawfully exclude union organizers from its privately owned public spaces. Under...more

Will Your Workers Go On Strike This Week? What You Need To Know

Fisher Phillips on 10/3/2018

Employee walkouts and protests are likely to occur on a large scale starting yesterday and lasting through Thursday, spurred on by the union-supported “Fight for $15” movement and in anticipation of the upcoming midterm...more

D.C. Circuit Rules That Off-Duty Employees Had A Right To Picket On Hospital Property

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/17/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rules that the NLRB properly found that a hospital violated the NLRA by threatening employees with discipline and arrest for peacefully picketing on hospital...more

Tennessee Poised to Prohibit Employers From Disciplining Employees With Firearms in Vehicles

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/30/2015

On March 23, 2015, the Tennessee General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to end confusion surrounding Tennessee’s “Guns in Trunks” law. Tennessee has historically allowed property owners to prohibit firearms anywhere on their...more

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