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What lies beneath the “substantial increased costs” needed to reject a request for a religious accommodation?

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Complete answers may be several years in the making. A year ago this month, in Groff v. DeJoy, the Supreme Court of the United States held that an employer who rejects a request for a religious accommodation “must show that...more

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Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 3, April 2024

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Using AI to Build Cyber Resilience for Critical Infrastructure - "Cyber resilience serves as a literal survival strategy, offering a framework to detect threats, understand attacks, recover swiftly, and adapt to...more

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Beverage & Food Industry in 2024: 10 Hot Topics for Beverage & Food Industry Founders, Investors, and Executives

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2023 was a pivotal year for the beverage and food industry globally, creating new categories of winners and losers across the board. With a full year of operations largely relieved of pandemic-era restrictions, restaurant...more

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The NLRB on What Employers Get Wrong

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At Ward and Smith’s recent annual Employment Law Symposium, two attorneys from the firm’s labor and employment group, Grant Osborne and X. Lightfoot, interviewed Shannon Meares, a regional attorney with the National Labor...more

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New York Employers: Important Legislative Updates from Albany

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For New York employers, fall has brought with it more than just cooler temperatures, thanks to a wave of activity from Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk (after a busy legislative summer). Below, we highlight six significant...more

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Non-Union Employers Face Triple Threat: Unfair Labor Practice Charges, Unionization, and Bargaining Orders

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The National Labor Relations Board has released more statistics that further confirm what labor lawyers suspected: Employers are subject to more unfair labor practice charges, Employees and labor organizations are...more

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Labor Day 2022 Shows Union Activity at Highest Level in Decades

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Labor Day 2022 comes at an optimistic time for U.S. labor unions. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, representation petitions and elections were declining steadily. However, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election filings...more

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Despite violating numerous workplace behavior policies, flight attendant wins initial day in court

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A recent jury verdict against Southwest Airlines and Transport Workers Union of America, Local 556 is an interesting study in the tension between an employer’s right to police an employee’s statements on social media and the...more

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Nasty language may be protected concerted activity, court says

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Non-union employers, this goes for you, too! An employee's use of bad language doesn't necessarily mean that the employer can take action against him. Even if the language arguably violates the employer's no-harassment...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Employees' Input On ESG May Reduce Risks Of Unionization

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Social media is a relatively new character in the classic tale of a unionizing workforce. Newer still is the impact that environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors have on that same workforce. Originally...more

Cozen O'Connor

#No Filter: Regulating an Employer’s Social Media Posts

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In this special edition of #No Filter, we will examine a recent May 20, 2022 decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals impacting the limits of permissible speech on social media. This time, however, we examine attempts...more

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ESG’s Significance as America’s Workforce Unionizes

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Social media has likely had a role in fueling the malaise of unionizing employees who believe that the company they work for has a bad reputation. Employees and pro-union groups take to forums like Twitter to voice complaints...more

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Elon Musk Takes Surprise 9.2% Stake in Twitter

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The man who can move the entire crypto industry in 180 characters or less disclosed on Monday a massive new stake in that medium of choice, Twitter. That move made Elon Musk the single biggest shareholder of the social media...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.18.2021 | Top Story: Hollywood Crew Union Reaches Deal to Avert Strike; Shows to Go On

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Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes “version of blue-collar workers—camera operators, makeup artists, prop makers, set dressers,” and their ilk—reached a “tentative agreement for a new three-year contact with film and television...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - March 2021 #2

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Welcome back to another week in the Spotlight. It is truly remarkable to think that it has (already? only?) been one year since the World Health Organization’s declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, shuttering sports arenas,...more

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SAG-AFTRA Membership Extending to Social Media Influencers

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On February 6, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) National Board approved a new “Influencer Agreement” that covers certain “influencer-generated branded content” across all...more

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NLRB Finds Social Media Policies Lawful, Sheds Light on Impact of Boeing

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As we have discussed before, several years ago, the Board instituted a significant paradigm shift in analyzing the lawfulness of employers’ handbook policies in relation to employees’ Section 7 rights, when it issued its...more

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NLRB: Employer Tweet Unlawfully Restrained Protected Activity

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On November 24, 2020, the Board held that a high-level executive’s tweet violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA by interfering with or restraining employees’ protected, concerted activity....more

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Top Five Labor Law Developments for August 2020

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1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upheld an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) ruling directing an unfair labor practice trial to be conducted by videoconference because of the COVID-19 pandemic. William Beaumont...more

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Threatening Employees on Social Media is No LOL Matter

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Sometimes jokes fall flat. Sometimes they can get employers in trouble with the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”). A recent case is a cautionary tale. What Happened? In responding to a story about workers for...more

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Smile When You Say That!

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Online snark can be an unfair labor practice. If you're going to joke on Twitter about what you'll do to employees if they unionize, be sure to add something -- anything -- that makes it clear you were joking....more

Cozen O'Connor

Employment Law Now IV-65- The Great Debate Part 2: Employee Lawyer vs. Employer Lawyer

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This is Part 2 of Mike Schmidt's 2-part episode pitting employee/plaintiff-side lawyer Hope Pordy, Esq. against employer/defendant-side lawyer Jeremy Glenn, Esq. to finish debating some interesting HR topics....more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.02.2019 | Top Story: US Restores Metal Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil

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The White House will again slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Argentina and Brazil in an apparent reaction to “massive devaluation” of  currencies in both South American nations....more

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Five Highlights From a Busy Month for the NLRB

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been busy the past few weeks. Below are the top five hits over the past month. 1. New rules on the horizon. In a new rulemaking agenda detailing both its short-term actions and...more

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Social Media: A Defense Against Union Organizing?

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A company’s website used to be the primary vehicle for communicating with its external audiences, its intranet for connecting with employees. Both were largely one-way streets in terms of dialogue. The respective audiences...more

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