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Sixth Circuit Declines to Defer to NLRB Decision Citing Loper Bright

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There has been much speculation about how much deference the courts will give to federal administrative agencies,’ including the NLRB’s, statutory interpretations in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June Loper Bright decision...more

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Breaking News: Federal Judge Blocks Nationwide Implementation of the FTC’s New Rule Banning Noncompete Agreements

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On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Texas issued a final order in the pending case, Ryan v. FTC, holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exceeded its authority in issuing a ban on noncompete clauses....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Does the End of Chevron Deference Really Mean for Employers?

This month, the Supreme Court put an end to “Chevron deference,” the decades-long practice of judicial deference to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory language. What does this mean for employers? Well,...more

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SCOTUS 2023/24 Lookback and Preview: 8 Key Rulings that Impact the Workplace and 4 New Cases for Employers to Track Next Term

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The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more

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Chevron’s Passing Likely to Reshape Labor and Employment Law as SCOTUS Questions Presumption of Agency Subject Matter Expertise

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On June 28, 2024 the Supreme Court overruled the 40-year-old landmark ruling known as Chevron, a doctrine of administrative law that has until now required courts to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Not So Fast:  D.C. Circuit Resists Invitation to Reject NLRB Deference

On July 5, 2024, in Hospital de la Concepcion v. NLRB, the D.C. Circuit was the first federal appeals court to weigh in on deference afforded to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in the wake of the landmark U.S....more

Epstein Becker & Green

D.C. Court of Appeals Scraps Substantive Changes from NLRB’s 2019 Final Rule on Election Procedures But Upholds Procedural Changes

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On January 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit partially reversed and partially upheld a District Court decision that enjoined five rules promulgated by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

D.C. Circuit Strikes Down Some 2019 NLRB Election Rules

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled earlier this month that the National Labor Relations Board violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 2019 by issuing certain rules...more

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Beltway Buzz - January 2023 #3

Union Membership Decreases. The percentage of workers who are union members dropped to 10.1 percent in 2022 from 10.3 percent in 2021, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the...more

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Mixed Review: D.C. Circuit Nixes Some Trump-Era NLRB Election Changes, Saves Others

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On January 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down certain Trump-era changes to the rules by which the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administers union elections. As...more

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Unionization of Public-Sector Jobs in Colorado: The Collective Bargaining by County Employees Act

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Municipal workers in Colorado won the right to form unions with Colorado’s Collective Bargaining by County Employees Act, which goes into effect in 2023 and provides a significant expansion of collective bargaining rights for...more

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Beltway Buzz - July 2021 #4

Senate Committee Examines PRO Act. On July 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing entitled “The Right to Organize: Empowering American Workers in a 21st Century...more

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Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - July 2020

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Happy 4th!  While we continue to track policy that matters, we would be remiss if we did not wish all of our readers, and of course the Nation itself, a Happy Independence Day. The tradition of Independence Day celebrations...more

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Judge Rejects AFL-CIO Effort To Invalidate Entire Election Rule

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The legal saga of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new election rule took another turn on July 1 when a federal judge found the rule was a proper exercise of statutory interpretation.* The entire new rule was...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Judge Jackson Explains the Basis for Her Invalidation of the Board’s Election Regulations

As we previously discussed earlier this month, District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an Order in American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations v. National Labor Relations Board, Civil Case...more

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New NLRB Election Rules Partially Invalidated

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) faces yet another road block to fully implementing its new election rules. The final rule, issued at the end of 2019, is set to restructure some of the more controversial...more

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Federal Judge Throws Out New Union Election Rules From the National Labor Relations Board

Last week, a federal district court granted summary judgment to the AFL-CIO in response to its challenge to new National Labor Relations Board regulations intended to slow the process for unionization elections. The rules...more

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U.S. District Court Vacates Parts of New NLRB Election Rules and Remands Non-Vacated Parts for Reconsideration

In an abbreviated order issued on May 30, 2020, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) improperly implemented portions of the...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

“Labor Law Update: New Union Election Rules Partially Overturned by New Court Decision”

Back in December 2019, HRLegalist blogged about the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) new union election rules. This set of rules was a sweeping series of reforms that sought to slow down the union elections process,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

D.C. Court Slows the NLRB’s Departure from “Quickie Election” Rules; NLRB Implements New Rules Unaffected by Order

On May 30, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an eleventh-hour decision preventing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from implementing new rules on union representation election...more

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Federal Court Blocks Labor Board’s New Union Election Rules

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On the eve of their scheduled implementation date, a federal court judge in Washington, D.C. struck down significant portions of the National Labor Relation’s Board new union representation procedures – handing a significant...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Breaking: Federal Court Strikes Down New NLRB Rules on Representation Election Procedures; Implementation Delayed and Status of...

After an initial COVID-19 related delay, the sweeping new NLRB representation election rules that reversed the Obama-era “quickie” election process were about to go into effect on May 31, 2020.  However, an eleventh-hour...more

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The Practical NLRB Advisor - Summer 2019

Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the summer 2019 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. This edition examines the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new...more

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Beltway Buzz - May 2019

EEO-1 Appeal. Late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal in the case that restarted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 2016 EEO-1 wage reporting scheme. The government appealed both the...more

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Beltway Buzz - November, 2017 #3

Tax Bill or Health Bill? It’s Two Bills in One! Caught in a legislative black hole, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cannot escape efforts to eradicate it—or at least large chunks of it. ...more

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