The National Labor Relations Board, by a 3 to 1 vote, has dramatically changed the playing field for employees seeking to exercise their Section 7 right to select a bargaining representative or to refrain from such. The...more
9/1/2023
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Cemex ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Section 7 ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Elections ,
Unions
Labor law, along with other employment-related policy matters, is at the forefront of the political, economic, and oftentimes cultural divide in the nation. With the change in Presidential administrations, some knowledgeable...more
1/21/2021
/ ABC Test ,
Biden Administration ,
Boycotts ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Multi-Employer Pensions ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Taft-Hartley Act ,
Trump Administration ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
The National Labor Relations Board has announced that it will move forward with parts of its new election regulations that were not blocked by a May 30 order from a federal judge in the District of Columbia.
The election...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
Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board announced a change to representation case procedures as part of an early holiday gift for employers. Generally, the changes extend deadlines for parties involved in R-cases,...more
To paraphrase a proverb sometimes attributed to physicist Niels Bohr, film mogul Samuel Goldwyn, baseball great Yogi Berra, and even writer Mark Twain, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”...more
News & Analysis-
New NLRB Chairman is John Ring-
NLRB gets “out of joint” over joint employer dispute-
NLRB’s extended period for comment on so-called “quickie election” rule ended on April 19, and General Counsel...more
More leisure time to talk about quickie elections.
The National Labor Relations Board announced today that it is again extending the time for interested parties to respond to its December 14, 2017, Request for Information...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS-
NLRB’s Emanuel under fire, and “joint employment” standard is in doubt. After a brief window of time in late 2017 when Republican Members outnumbered Democratic Members on the National Labor Relations Board,...more
2/28/2018
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Misclassification ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Right to Work ,
Termination
News & Analysis-
Leadoff memorandum of new NLRB General Counsel Robb draws immediate fire from Democrats
NLRB Republican majority goes to work and asks for comment on the so-called “quickie election” rule
Miscimarra is...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS-
Winners and losers feel effects of the Presidential election - For winners, Philip Miscimarra, who was Acting Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, gave up “acting” and got real with...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS -
DOL Persuader Rule will not take effect July 1, after court issues preliminary injunction – In the second decision to be issued in the three lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s new...more
Quickie elections seem here to stay, but Senate Republicans aren’t giving up. On July 29, the National Labor Relations Board won another challenge to its “quickie election” rules pursued by employer groups. This time, Judge...more
8/28/2015
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Barack Obama ,
Collective Bargaining ,
College Athletes ,
Confidential Witnesses ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fifth Amendment ,
First Amendment ,
Football ,
Internal Investigations ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Northwestern University ,
Pending Legislation ,
Political Debates ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Protests ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
Unions ,
Vacancies Act ,
Witness Statements