The United States House of Representatives has passed the PRO Act, which now moves to the Senate for consideration. If passed, the PRO Act would probably be the most radical, and union friendly, change to U.S. labor law...more
The National Labor Relations Board has restored a prior standard, one that had stood for about 80 years before being overturned in 2016, which governs an employer’s duty to bargain over employee discipline during the time...more
The National Labor Relations Board has traditionally applied separate tests to evaluate whether employee discipline violated the National Labor Relations Act, depending on the context of the underlying misconduct. This has...more
7/23/2020
/ Disciplinary Proceedings ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
General Motors ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Strike ,
Unfair Labor Practices
On February 26, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule governing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. ...more
3/5/2020
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Final Rules ,
Franchises ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
If 2018 was a year of elevator music at the National Labor Relations Board, 2019 was symphony of sound. The Board’s initiatives were varied, high-profile and in the vast majority of cases, the developments were positives for...more
3/2/2020
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Email Policies ,
Employer Rights ,
Freelance Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Internal Investigations ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
Misclassification ,
New Rules ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Purple Communications ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Union Elections ,
Union Organizers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Waivers
The flurry of activity from National Labor Relations Board in late 2019 was a fairly consistent drum beat of good news for employers. In many cases, the Board restored decades of precedent that had been upended by the Board...more
1/6/2020
/ Banner Health System ,
Boeing ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Employment Policies ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Section 7 ,
Unions ,
Workplace Investigations
If you follow our blog, you know that the National Labor Relations Board’s election rules have been a hot topic over the past several years. The Board’s election rules are critical, because time can often make a difference...more
On August 9, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The Notice, which was issued on August 12, 2019, covers three proposed rules. A majority of the Board is proposing to change...more
8/13/2019
/ Blocking Statutes ,
Construction Industry ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRB ,
NPRM ,
Proposed Rules ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Representatives ,
Unions