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Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

NLRB Gives Employers a Hangover: Longstanding Anheuser-Busch decision overruled

More than 35 years after its decision in Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 237 NLRB 982 (1978), the NLRB has reversed course and held that employers may no longer summarily reject union requests for witness statements obtained in...more

Blank Rome LLP

NLRB Overrules Longstanding Precedent—Withholding Witness Statements is No Longer a Bright Line Exception

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Action Item: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently held in American Baptist Homes of the West d/b/a Piedmont Gardens that there is no longer a blanket exemption for witness statements from an employer’s Section...more

Franczek P.C.

NLRB Overrules Precedent; Allows Unions Easy Access to Employee Witness Statements

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For nearly 40 years, the National Labor Relations Board has followed a bright-line rule pursuant to which an employer is privileged to withhold witness statements from unions. In its 1978 Anheuser-Busch Inc. decision, the...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Witness Statements No Longer Exempt from Production to Union

Employers who obtain witness statements in anticipation of litigation or grievances often contend the statements are exempt from the duty to provide information to the union, relying on the NLRB's 1978 decision in...more

Cozen O'Connor

NLRB Overrules Anheuser-Busch: Witness Statements Now Subject to Disclosure

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Last year, we notified you here that the National Labor Relations Board will now consider a general employer rule requiring confidentiality during an internal investigation into an employee complaint to be an unfair labor...more

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