On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not preempt an employer’s state court tort claims alleging a union intentionally destroyed the employer’s...more
On April 20, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) imposed a host of expanded remedies against an employer that allegedly committed a number of repeated labor law violations in the context of collective bargaining....more
4/24/2023
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Remedies ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Labor Law Violations ,
NLRB ,
Remedies ,
Statutory Violations ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
On January 10, 2023, justices for the Supreme Court of the United States questioned attorneys for a ready-mix concrete company and the union representing its truck drivers over whether claims to recover the value of the...more
Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2022 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. In this issue, the Advisor takes a small departure from our usual...more
Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the summer 2019 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. This edition examines the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new...more
9/18/2019
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Appeals ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Auer Deference ,
Bargaining Units ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Contract Negotiations ,
Contract Terms ,
Employment Policies ,
First Amendment ,
Judicial Estoppel ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), employees have the right to determine whether union representation is in their best interests. The freedom of employees to make this critical choice in an atmosphere free of...more
8/15/2019
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Comment Period ,
Construction Industry ,
Contract Terms ,
Majority Voting Policies ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NPRM ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
The majority of unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against employers are either withdrawn, dismissed or settled. My February 7, 2014 article discussed the former general counsel’s (GC) 2011 mandate (GC Memo 11-04) requiring...more
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new general counsel wasted no time in issuing comprehensive guidelines to the agency unequivocally indicating that the era of unbridled activism and overreach by the Board will...more
The 2011 decision of the former Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to mandate inclusion of “default language” in every informal unfair labor practice settlement agreement (General Counsel...more