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On Aug. 25, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Final Rule that will reduce the time between the filing of a union election petition and the date the election occurs....more
On Friday, August 25, 2023, The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a highly anticipated decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC which fundamentally shifts the paradigm governing how unions organize...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 24, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Final Rule dramatically altering union election processes. The Final Rule overturns many Trump-era regulations, thereby perpetuating an...more
The National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) published its final rule (“2023 Rule”) on Friday, August 25, amending the representation election procedures that it previously proposed in 2019 and finalized, after some...more
For the third time in a decade the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has again changed the procedural rules that affect the processing of union election petitions and the length of time between the filing of...more
As we previously wrote, five Trump-era changes to the union election process were contested in a lawsuit brought by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). In a January 2023...more
On August 24, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a new final rule for union elections that revives the prior “ambush election” rules. The new rule compresses the time period between the time a...more
Thursday, the NLRB issued a notice to rescind four provisions from the Board’s Rules and Regulations contained in its Final Rule published in December 2019 (the “2019 rule”). The Board’s notice rescinding all four provisions,...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more
December 2019 brought significant changes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case law and election procedures. The following highlights a few of those changes as we get into the new year and policy reviews get...more
During 2019, the current National Labor Relations Board (the Board) majority became more active, beginning to overrule decisions handed down during the Obama administration and restoring decades of precedent. In addition...more
At the end of 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its long-anticipated final rule somewhat restructuring its controversial 2014 election rules overhaul (rules sometimes referred to as the "quickie" or...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The National Labor Relations Board announced a number of changes to its representation election rules on December 13, 2019, many of which, to some degree or another, restored elements of the Board’s procedures prior to the...more
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently announced changes to its representation case procedures that mark a shift away from the “ambush elections” created by the 2014 Obama-era rules. Though the 2014 rules are...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) announced the final rule amending the procedures used for elections to determine whether employees desire to be represented by a labor...more
Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board announced a change to representation case procedures as part of an early holiday gift for employers. Generally, the changes extend deadlines for parties involved in R-cases,...more
On December 18, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board published a final rule in the Federal Register amending its union representation election procedures to eliminate several aspects of the "quickie" election rule that...more
On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) issued a new Final Rule amending its procedures for union elections and scaling back the Obama–era “quickie election” rules. To be clear, the Final Rule does...more
At the end stages of lone Democrat Board Member McFerran’s term, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Friday, December 13th, issued the first of what may be a number of rulings in the form of a procedural regulation...more
After an unsuccessful effort to implement new election rules in 2011, the NLRB has now re-issued election rules that would substantially speed up the existing union election process....more
After a series of false starts, on December 12, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) adopted a 733-page final rule (“Final Rule”) that will significantly change the Board’s longstanding union election...more
The National Labor Relations Board has again issued its final rule revising union election procedures, which will greatly shorten the time between when the union files an election petition and when the election is held. This...more