After the pandemic began to ease, and labor availability was the lowest in recent history, many employees found themselves working more and more to fill the gaps in the workforce. That led to the trend popularized a year ago...more
2022 was a great year for U.S. labor unions and employees, but not so much for U.S. employers. The Biden National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dug in and got to work, reversing precedent and charting a course to reinterpret...more
Employers are facing an economic paradox. On one hand, employers are fighting incessant labor shortages. This has triggered a war for talent, which employers have waged against each other by offering ever-increasing and...more
Despite our best attempts to suppress the memory, we all remember it well. Just over two years ago, the pandemic triggered state-ordered shutdowns. Our economy obviously slowed to a crawl, and employers everywhere...more
In January, we wrote about Allegheny County’s paid sick leave regulations that took effect in December 2021. Now, we write to tell you that the regulations have changed. The change will affect only one key industry –...more
INTRODUCTION -
2021 was the first year of National Labor Relations Board under President Biden. For years, the Board’s decisions and its approach generally have swung back and forth depending on whether there was a...more
1/31/2022
/ Boeing ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Protected Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Unions
After the country waited with anticipation for the better part of a year for a vaccine that would return us to some sense of normalcy, the FDA finally approved two vaccines in December. The plan was to vaccinate frontline...more
In November 2017, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an opinion concerning an arbitrator’s reinstatement of a state correctional officer (“CO”). The CO was responsible for monitoring inmates who worked on the...more
1/16/2018
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Department of Corrections ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Filing Grievances ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Prison ,
Public Employees ,
Reinstatement ,
Unions
A few weeks ago, a jury in New Jersey federal court found that Lockheed Martin discriminated against a former employee. The employee claimed that Lockheed violated federal and state laws by discriminating against him on the...more
2/16/2017
/ ADEA ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Compensatory Damages ,
Discrimination ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Google ,
Lockheed Martin ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Punitive Damages ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour