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Supreme Court Agrees To Resolve Circuit Court Conflict Over Standard For Section 10(j) Injunction In Unionization Efforts...

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The boiling dispute over the unionization of baristas is heading to the Supreme Court. Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act authorizes federal courts to issue preliminary injunctions against employers that are...more

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NLRB Clears Path for Union Representation Without an Employee Vote

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For decades, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has found that secret ballot elections are the best method for determining whether workers want to be represented by a union. A recent memo from the NLRB General...more

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Concerns Over Cemex Bargaining Orders

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On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decided Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, which lowered the threshold for the Board to issue a bargaining order rather than re-run an election when it...more

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Cementing a Path Forward: NLRB Denies Employer’s Motion for Reconsideration of Cemex, While General Counsel Provides Guidance on...

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Earlier this week, by denying the employer’s motion to reconsider in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC, 372 NLRB No. 157 (2023), the National Labor Relations Board not only validated the applicability of its new Cemex...more

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NLRB General Counsel Offers Some Clarity on Responding to Union Organizing Demands for Bargaining

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The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel recently published a memo, along with other resources, to clarify parts of the Board’s recent decision dealing with union organizing demands for bargaining orders.1 The...more

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Labor Board’s General Counsel Imposes Additional Burdens on Employers Responding to Union Recognition Demands: 6 Takeaways for...

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In the aftermath of a game-changing NLRB decision that drastically changed how employers can respond to union recognition demands, the Board’s General Counsel recently issued a guidance memorandum offering important insight...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Labor Board Expands an Employer’s Duty to Bargain During Contract Negotiations

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Overruling crucial aspects of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board has expanded an employer’s duty to bargain with employees under the National Labor Relations Act following the expiration of a labor contract and...more

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NLRB Reinvigorates 1949 Joy Silk Doctrine Giving Great Weight To Demands For Recognition

As we previously reported in April 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, asked the Board to revive the Joy Silk doctrine (which was rejected in 1969) and require...more

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NLRB's New Framework for Union Organizing Puts Employers at a Severe Disadvantage

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The National Labor Relations Board has issued a groundbreaking decision that jettisons 50 years of established law to provide unions a more favorable framework to organize nonunion companies. On the heels of new rules...more

Morgan Lewis

New NLRB Rules Favor Mandatory Union Recognition & Limit Employee Voting in Secret-Ballot Elections

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The National Labor Relations Board drastically changed the process for unions seeking recognition of most private sector employees in the United States. Abandoning 50 years of established law, in Cemex Construction Materials...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Reversing an Earlier Decision, the NLRB Insinuates Itself Further Into the Non-Union Workplace

In Stericyle, Inc., issued on August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) discarded an earlier decision and established a new test for determining whether an employer’s work rule constitutes an unfair labor...more

Miller Canfield

Unions Gain an Organizing Edge: NLRB Lowers Bar for Challenging Work Rules

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The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has significantly lowered the bar for unions and employees who seek to challenge the validity of work rules, particularly those related to civility, solicitation, confidentiality...more

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NLRB and DOL Clamp Down on Anti-Union Activities, Expand Unfair Labor Practice Remedies, and Restrict Handbook Policies

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In recent weeks, both the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) and U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) have signaled or put into effect several pro-union initiatives. Collectively, these moves will...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NLRB General Counsel Announces Employee Non-Compete Agreements Violate the NLRA

On the heels of the National Labor Relations Board’s decision in McLaren Macomb, which invalidated most confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions in a variety of employment agreements (as we covered here and here), NLRB...more

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Under-Reasoned Overreach: The NLRB General Counsel’s Opinion on Employee Noncompetes

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On May 30, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum in which she opined that nearly all noncompetition agreements with employees violate the National Labor Relations...more

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Tales from the NLRB: General Counsel to Treat Most Non-Compete Agreements as Unfair Labor Practices

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On May 30, 2023, Jennifer Abruzzo, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (Board), issued a guidance memo (the “Memo”) stating that non-compete agreements or similar restrictive covenants in settlement...more

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NLRB General Counsel Seeks Quicker Compliance With Board Orders

In yet another effort to speed up the processing of cases, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel on May 22, 2023, issued a memorandum instructing Regional Offices to speed up compliance with Board-ordered...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top Five Labor Law Developments for April 2023

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The National Labor Relations Board returned to its prior standard for analyzing the legality of disciplining employee misconduct related to protected concerted activity. Lion Elastomers LLC II, 372 NLRB No. 83 (May 1, 2023)....more

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NLRB follows the General Counsel’s Lead: Enhanced Remedies May Now Apply to Bad-Faith Bargaining

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On April 20, 2023, a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (Board) ruled 2-1 in Noah’s Ark Processors LLC, 372 NLRB No. 80 (2023), that a combination of remedies imposed for unfair labor practices by an...more

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NLRB Expands Remedies to Address Repeat Offenders

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The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) has traditionally been limited in ways to remedy violations of federal labor law. Often, the Board is constrained to ordering “make-whole” relief like backpay and employee...more

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NLRB Continues to Take Control From Employers Resisting Union Efforts

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The National Labor Relations Board, as currently constituted, continues its efforts to kneecap employers who dare to resist unionization efforts. We have already seen NLRB General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo’s, scorched-earth...more

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“Outlook Not So Good” – An Employer’s Guide to the NLRB’s 2023 Agenda

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“Should Employers have any hope for impartiality and good decisions from the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) in 2023?”  Posed to the old Magic 8 Ball, the answer is “Don’t count on it.”...more

Roetzel & Andress

Back Pay Plus: NLRB Permits Employees To Recover “Foreseeable” Damages From Employers for Labor Law Violations

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Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board significantly expanded the damages available to employees in unfair labor practice proceedings. Damages for employees wrongfully discharged in violation of federal labor law have...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Top Five Labor Law Developments for November 2022

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President Joe Biden signed legislation imposing a collective bargaining agreement between freight carriers and railroad unions, avoiding a nationwide strike. Congress passed the bill utilizing its authority under the Railway...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Laboring on without a House – unions and their allies have plenty of “workarounds”

The Biden Administration’s efforts at adjusting the balance of labor relations toward the interests of organized labor, at least for now, must largely fall back on non-legislative means, given the Republican capture of the...more

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