Texas Representative Christina Morales (D) introduced Texas House Bill 4067 (HB 4067), which seeks to prohibit most noncompete agreements in the state of Texas, on March 7, 2025. This bill, if enacted, would broadly restrict...more
NLRB Changes Standard for Evaluating Employer Statements on Employee Access to Management in a Unionized Environment The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) overturned decades of precedent on November 8, 2024, by...more
Washington state employers are now banned from holding “captive audience” meetings. So-called captive audience meetings are mandatory meetings held by employers during work hours to address activities protected by Section 7...more
6/28/2024
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Employee Handbooks ,
Employees ,
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Employment Policies ,
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Policies and Procedures ,
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State Bans ,
Unions ,
Washington
Courts continue to explore whether the threshold for actionable “adverse employment actions” under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been construed too narrowly. Upending several decades of precedent, in 2023, the...more
This summer, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board or NLRB) issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC that upended decades of precedent regarding the representation election process. A more...more
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (the Board) issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC on August 25, 2023, upending decades of precedent regarding the representation election process. Per the...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a decision on June 16, 2023, returning to an Obama-era standard used to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the National...more
On December 14, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a decision in American Steel Construction, Inc., in which a 3-2 Board majority threw out the Trump-era standard used to determine whether a...more
12/22/2022
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Boeing ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Relations ,
Micro-Unions ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Obama Administration ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on July 19, 2022, jointly issued a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding information sharing, cross-agency training, and outreach of...more
8/2/2022
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Gig Economy ,
Information Sharing ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Unfair Competition ,
Unfair Labor Practices
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on March 17, 2022, denied defendant Scribe Opco, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...more
4/26/2022
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But For Causation ,
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
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Florida ,
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Natural Disasters ,
WARN Act ,
Written Notice