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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - March 2019

This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including with respect to minimum salary thresholds for the DOL's new overtime rule, the EEOC's collection of compensation data for increased...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

NLRB Says Non-Union Member Dues Cannot be Used for Lobbying Purposes

In its 1988 Beck decision, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that non-union members who were part of a collective bargaining unit could not be assessed dues for purposes other than collective bargaining or other matters...more

Cozen O'Connor

In A Setback for Unions, NLRB Holds Lobbying Expenses Are Not Chargeable to Non-Members

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In a recent decision of the NLRB, greater scrutiny was given to what constitutes chargeable expenses of a labor organization, resulting in non-member employees being freed from the burden of paying for a union’s lobbying...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

I’m Not Paying for That! National Labor Relations Board Increases Rights of Beck Objectors and Further Limits the Activities...

n March 1, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”), in a 3-1 decision, ruled that Beck objectors cannot be required to financially support the lobbying efforts of unions because lobbying costs are not chargeable as...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Big Labor Takes a Hit: NLRB Prohibits Unions From Forcing Nonmembers to Pay for Lobbying Activities

In a long-awaited decision, United Nurses & Allied Professionals (Kent Hospital), issued on March 1, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that a private-sector union may not require nonmember objectors (also...more

Polsinelli

Where The Buck stops: Union Lobbying Not Chargeable to Beck Ojectors

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On March 1, 2019, in a long-awaited and unsurprising 3-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled lobbying expenses are not chargeable to employees who work in a union setting and choose not to join or...more

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NLRB Deals Blow To Unions’ Ability To Use Fees For Lobbying Purposes

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The National Labor Relations Board just decided that private sector unions cannot use fees paid by nonmembers to fund their lobbying efforts. Especially when coupled with last year’s momentous Janus decision at the U.S....more

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