On Friday, April 9, 2021, workers for Amazon in Alabama voted by an overwhelming majority to remain union-free, thereby preventing Amazon's first union-organized facility in the United States. According to organized labor,...more
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 9. While it previously passed the House last year, this time around it has significant backing from the Biden...more
On August 7, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a decision providing additional guidance to employers regarding acceptable social media policies that do not violate an employee's Section 7 rights under the...more
As more and more American workers are logging into their jobs remotely, many employers have been forced to enact teleworking policies on a massive scale. Some of these work-from-home policies may have been implemented in a...more
A recent decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court of Massachusetts, emphasizes the dangers to employers of taking employment actions based on outrage rather than reason. ...more
Self-care is not self-indulgence. Self-care is self-respect. In a busy world of work, family, community, charitable, religious, etc. responsibilities, we are pulled in so many directions....more
While it is always risky to attempt to predict the future with any certainty, employers trying to read the tea leaves for 2019 can be sure of at least one thing – significant changes to employment law are coming....more
Every year around this time, as regular as college football tailgates and traffic jams, the EEOC files a flurry of lawsuits before the completion of its fiscal year at the end of September. ...more
In 2018, there is a growing trend to invalidate non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. State and federal courts, as well as state legislatures, are pushing for enhanced scrutiny of the "reasonableness" of these...more
The news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death at a hunting lodge in Texas on February 13th rocked the country over Valentine’s weekend. The timing and suddenness of the staunch conservative’s death during President Obama’s last...more