Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court just held that employers, when calculating the premium pay due for failing to provide legally compliant meal and rest periods, must include all nondiscretionary payments—not just pay the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers may challenge whether unions still have majority support between the date that agreement on a collective bargaining agreement was reached and the date that the agreement becomes effective....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to relax for the summer, California is giving employers four new reasons to keep on their toes. Laws going into effect on July 1, 2017, will address (1) domestic violence,...more
6/30/2017
/ Ban the Box ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Domestic Violence ,
FEHC ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
Local Ordinance ,
Minimum Wage ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
State Labor Laws ,
Transgender ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal has held that an employer’s refusal to honor an employee’s rescission of a voluntary resignation is not an adverse employment action under the Fair Employment and Housing Act....more
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
3/20/2017
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Preemption ,
Right to Work ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Dues ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wages
By: Alison Loomis, Esq. Seyfarth Synopsis: A challenge to Seattle’s first-of-its-kind ordinance, which established the right for on-demand drivers to collectively bargain, was dismissed by a Washington federal court on the...more
8/24/2016
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Chamber of Commerce ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Drivers ,
Independent Contractors ,
Local Ordinance ,
NLRA ,
On-Demand Services ,
Preemption ,
Ripeness ,
Sherman Act ,
Standing ,
Unions
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB’s General Counsel seeks to impede an employer’s ability to extract a union that lacks the support of a majority of bargaining unit members by requiring in all cases a decertification election prior...more
Where up is down and left means right, talking to yourself may now qualify as “concerted” activity under the current NLRB. In Berkeley Preparatory School, Inc. and Kathi Grau, a teacher at a private, non-profit, religious...more