On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board, in a 3-2 decision in Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation II, changed the standard applicable to property owners seeking to restrict off-duty, outside contractor...more
On Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board modified the standard used to determine whether a “petitioned-for” bargaining unit is appropriate for union representation when a party contends that the unit is inappropriate...more
On Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board, in a 3-2 decision, expanded the remedy available for unfair labor practices to include a make-whole remedy for "all direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” resulting from the...more
Part 1 of our analysis of the NLRB’s Final Rule on representation elections is here.
Another potentially significant feature of the new regulations on union representation elections issued by the National Labor Relations...more
On December 28, the majority of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the most part upheld an expansive “joint employment” standard adopted by the National Labor Relations...more
Employers may soon learn from the National Labor Relations Board that they once again can control their own email and other electronic communications systems. On August 1, the Board published an invitation for briefs from...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to rescind the Obama Administration’s version of the “Persuader Rule.” The Obama Rule never actually became applicable because it was enjoined by a...more
In the first decision to be issued in the three lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Persuader Rule,” a federal judge in Minnesota refused the challengers’ request for a preliminary injunction. If Judge...more
The U.S. Department of Labor recently filed suit against United States Steel Corporation, alleging that the company's injury-reporting policy violates §11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The suit claims that the...more
As we alerted you last week, on Monday the National Labor Relations Board published its long-awaited final rule on so-called "quickie" or "ambush" elections. The final rule is similar, but not identical, to a prior Board...more