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Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Will Gradual Wage Hikes Help or Harm Healthcare? New Wage Mandates Took Effect June 1, 2024

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California lawmakers continuously grapple with the “Iron Triangle” of healthcare—a principle positing that cost, quality, and access are interdependent, with any improvement in one area likely necessitating compromises in the...more

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Cozen Cities - May 22, 2024

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CHICAGO — Ordinance Requiring City Data Be Stored in U.S. Held in Committee- The Chicago City Council Committee on Economic, Capital & Technology Development held an ordinance requiring city data to “be processed, stored,...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Implications of NLRB Regional Office decision on Dartmouth basketball players

In a February 2024 decision, a National Labor Relations Board Regional Director held that Dartmouth College men’s basketball players were “employees” for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act and entitled to unionize....more

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Minimizing National Labor Relations Act Liability for Employers with Non-Unionized Workforces

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Employers with a non-unionized workforce often mistakenly believe that they are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the “Act”). The NLRA is most commonly known as the law that guarantees employees the...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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Cozen Cities - December 13, 2023

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BALTIMORE — New UpSurge CEO Bets on Baltimore, Tech Tech- entrepreneur Kory Bailey — who was recently named CEO of UpSurge, a nonprofit, professional ecosystem-building organization — spoke about his efforts to build a...more

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(Not So) Frozen in Time—Colorado District Court Enters Section 10(j) Order Preventing Hospital from Withholding Across-the-Board...

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On November 16, 2023, a federal court in Colorado issued a lengthy opinion granting in part a petition for a temporary injunction pursuant to Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”). Lomax v. Longmont...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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

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

Foley & Lardner LLP

Upcoming Labor Contract Negotiations between the UAW Union and the Big Three Create Auto Industry Uncertainty

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The United Auto Workers (UAW) Union and the Big Three automotive companies—General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis—stand on the brink of a pivotal moment as they prepare to engage in labor contract negotiations. The current...more

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Florida Increases Public-Sector Union Transparency and Accountability with New Legislation: 5 Key Takeaways for Employers

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The Florida Legislature passed SB 256 on April 26, which aims to promote greater public-sector union transparency and accountability and to provide paycheck protection for public-sector bargaining unit employees. SB 256,...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Labor Trends in Restaurant Industry: How QSRs and Gen Z are Impacting Employee Activism

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As restaurants emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, employers in the industry continue to face new challenges with organizing activity on the rise and new generations leading the charge....more

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The American Worker and Debt: How Earned Wage Access Can Help Break The Cycle

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In 1965, the country was at an inflection point: there had been nearly a decade of important civil rights activism culminating in the Voting Rights Act, the World's Fair came to Queens, and the popularity of unions was at a...more

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NLRB Prepares To Issue New Joint Employer Standard in 2023

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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) released its notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) to establish a new “joint employer” legal standard under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) on September 6, 2022....more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Today’s Fight for the Rights of Union Workers with Deborah Willig: On Record PR

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Deborah Willig, the managing partner of Willig, Williams & Davidson, who talks about today’s fight for the rights of union workers. Deb shares that unions and...more

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NLRB Says Employers Must Continue to Deduct Union Dues After CBA Expiration

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On October 3, in the case of Valley Hospital, the National Labor Relations Board answered a question that has impacted employers for almost 60 years: whether, under Section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act, an...more

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Cozen Cities: September 21, 2022

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Throughout the country, large municipalities are laboratories of democracy. New and innovative policies introduced in one market are often exported to others, and ultimately replicated at the state and federal level. This...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Can Employers Prevent & Combat Employee Unionization?

The United States is currently experiencing a major resurgence of labor unions. As more fully discussed in The Resurgence of Unions: Why Now?, this upward trend in unionization can primarily be attributed to the COVID-19...more

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Oregon Updates Equal Pay Law for 2020

Oregon employers looking to evaluate their pay equity picture in 2020 should be aware of a handful of updates to the state’s equal pay law that went into effect on January 1....more

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How Might Virginia’s New Legislative Trifecta Affect Employers in the Commonwealth in 2020?

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In the November 2019 election Virginia gained a Democratic “trifecta”—both legislative chambers and the governorship are now controlled by one political party. It has been over two decades since Democratic lawmakers...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

No Silver Bullet For Wages Growth, But There Are Solutions

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The debate on what is to be done about slowing wages growth of Australian workers is, understandably, receiving an increased focus in the midst of an intense election campaign....more

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What Will the Democratic Takeover of the House of Representatives Mean for Labor and Employment Law?

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While some races remain undecided, it is clear at this point that Democrats will control the U.S. House of Representatives in the next Congress. ...more

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Giving the Unions Their Dues: NLRB ALJ Finds Partial Preemption of Wisconsin Right-to-Work Law

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Administrative Law Judge found that the NLRA preempts part of Wisconsin’s right-to-work law that restricts employers from deducting union dues directly from employees’ paychecks....more

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State of the States: Legislatures are off to the Races!

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Most state legislatures are back in session, and they are poised to address a wide range of labor and employment issues this year. Since January 1, 2017, more than 500 employment-related bills have been proposed in more than...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Manufacturing Law Predictions for 2017:  Labor and Employment

As has been our tradition, January is the time to predict the big developments in the coming year which will impact on manufacturers. Notwithstanding my “Lawyer’s Shrug,” here is my take on 2017....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The Trump Card: What’s In Store for the Workplace in 2017 and Beyond?

On November 3, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board issued a Decision and Order in Trump Ruffin Commercial, LLC, finding that the Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas unlawfully refused to bargain with UNITE HERE...more

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