Employment Law This Week®: DOL Vacancies, Use of Customer Data, Weingarten Rights, EEOC’s Investigatory Authority
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) incorrectly found an employee invoked Weingarten rights and misapplied the Wright Line burden-shifting framework in finding an employee was unlawfully terminated, the federal appeals...more
One area of labor relations that continues to vex practitioners is the scope of the so-called Weingarten rights. NLRB v. J. Weingarten Inc., 420 U.S. 251 (1975). Some 43 years after the Supreme Court set forth the right that...more
The NLRB suffered a setback this week when its interpretation of Weingarten rights was rebuffed by the D.C. Court of Appeals. This is the same court that recently declared the agency was acting more as an “advocate than...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB held that American Medical Response of Southern California (“AMR”) did not violate an employee’s rights during a police investigation of an EMT’s gun violence threat by not providing the EMT with a...more
In its seemingly unending quest to reverse long-settled employer defenses, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has instructed an Administrative Law Judge to reconsider his decision denying reinstatement to...more