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The UK Supreme Court interprets contractual provisions, and implies a term, to find in favour of a group of Tesco employees who argued that the supermarket chain was not entitled to fire and rehire them on less advantageous...more
On July 2, Judge Sunil Harjani of the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion in Sanders v. E.A. Sween Company holding that an employee who was not a member of a union, but was a member of a collective bargaining unit...more
On May 14, 2024, the United States District Court of Massachusetts granted the National Labor Relations Board’s first petition for injunctive relief under the new framework announced last year in Cemex Construction Materials...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Reversing a Trump Board case, the Biden Board recently found that an employer engaged in bad-faith bargaining based on adhering to its bargaining proposals—despite (1) the employer engaging in no unlawful...more
On May 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a petition for interim injunctive relief under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) that was filed by the...more
In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, the U.S. Supreme Court considered what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides to employees who claim they were the victims of a discriminatory transfer....more
Did you hear the news? The members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team have been deemed employees of the school and voted to unionize under federal labor law. How could you miss it? The crush of media reports has...more
On February 26, 2024, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (the “Division”) adopted final rules for the Protections for Public Workers Act (PROPWA). As previously...more
In November 2023, the economist Javier Milei was elected as the new president of Argentina. He took office in December 2023. One of his first measures was to issue an emergency decree that included a chapter dealing with...more
Union organizing efforts are not limited to historical union strongholds such as manufacturing, construction, and the public sector. Even though unions currently represent only about 1.3% of the financial services industry,...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been pushing hard to turn certain Division I college-level student-athletes into employees, at least for purposes of organizing and collective bargaining rights under the National...more
For over fifty years, the general process for determining employee support (or opposition) to collective bargaining remained fairly constant: the union gathers signed authorization cards to evidence a sufficient showing of...more
The NLRB has reversed decades of precedent and made it far easier for unions to represent employees, including manufacturers, without a secret ballot election. The NLRB’s new standard (announced in Cemex Construction...more
It’s a cruel summer for employers as the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued both new election rules, and a landmark decision that upended decades of precedent and lowered the threshold for the Board to issue...more
In a pivotal legal battle, the Third Circuit is currently deliberating whether college athletes should be considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the purpose of receiving wages. This landmark case could...more
In two recent decisions the National Labor Relations Board overruled precedent that had allowed unionized employers to lawfully change terms and condition of employment if the changes were consistent with past practice or an...more
Monday, August 28, 2023: U.S. NLRB “Clarified” 2019 Decision on Wright Line Evidentiary Burden in Dual Motives Causation Cases - Beginning a parade of four sets of major rulings in one week, the National Labor Relations...more
For more than 50 years, the National Labor Relations Board had held — with Supreme Court approval — that when a union claimed to represent an employer’s workforce, the employer could refuse to recognize the union, leaving the...more
The National Labor Relations Board, by a 3 to 1 vote, has dramatically changed the playing field for employees seeking to exercise their Section 7 right to select a bargaining representative or to refrain from such. The...more
On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC (N.L.R.B., Case 28-CA-230115) – upending over fifty years of established law and setting forth a new,...more
On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) released its highly anticipated decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific (“Cemex”), NLRB Case No. 28-CA-230115. Cemex involved allegations...more
In a monumental sea change, on August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC announcing a new rule for deciding when employers must bargain with...more
Introduction This practical guide aggregates a total set of 150 questions and answers regarding the Law no. 13/2023, of April 3rd (called "2023 Reform”, with the Rectification Declaration no. 13/2023, of May 29th), which aims...more
On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico issued an Opinion and Order interpreting an employer’s obligation to pay the Christmas Bonus to employees covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Writing for the...more
On April 20, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) issued its decision in Noah’s Ark Processors, LLC (Noah’s Ark), holding that Noah’s Ark, a Nebraska meat processor, violated the National Labor Relations Act...more