NLRA, Manufacturers

2024 Election – Can It Be A Hot Topic In Your Workplace?

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 7/25/2024

With the 2024 election fast approaching, and political news exploding, manufacturers are asking an important question: What is the role of political bobbleheads, pins, stickers, and discussions in the workplace?...more

2024 Labor and Employment Outlook for Manufacturers

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 1/11/2024

As we look ahead to 2024, there are a number of new issues and trends that appear on the local, state, and federal horizon with regard to labor and employment laws that may impact manufacturers. The following are a few of...more

Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2024

Husch Blackwell LLP on 11/2/2023

Our downloadable report, Legal Insights for Manufacturing, explores how the business, legal, and regulatory framework is evolving—and will evolve—to address the large generational shifts taking place. This year, our report...more

Manufacturers’ Manual to Political Speech in the Workplace

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 11/1/2023

As we approach election season, conversations about politics are quickly picking up across the country and in the workplace. Employers may be wondering how they can manage communications in the workplace....more

Snapshot on Manufacturing Industry: Your Handbook Might Need Immediate Changes

Fisher Phillips on 8/31/2023

Welcome to FP Snapshot on Manufacturing Industry, where we take a quick snapshot look at the most significant workplace law developments over the past month with an emphasis on how they impact manufacturers. This edition is...more

Manufacturers and Labor Board’s Decision Limiting Employers’ Response to Abusive Workplace Conduct

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 8/7/2023

The National Labor Relations Board has narrowed the rights of employers to discipline employees who, while engaged in protected concerted activity under the National Labor Relations Act, engaged in abusive conduct. Lion...more

Manufacturing Employers Should Pay Attention to Severance Agreement Restrictions Despite Booming Times

Fisher Phillips on 4/5/2023

The recent pendulum-swinging NLRB decision that invalidated confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in severance agreements will have far-reaching effects on employers that utilize them during layoffs or other...more

As Unions Worm their Way into Apple, Inc., NLRB Alleges a ULP

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 10/10/2022

Last month, the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint alleging that Apple, Inc. committed an unfair labor practice by prohibiting union flyers in the breakroom while permitting non-union solicitations and...more

What Manufacturing and Other Employers Can Expect From Biden National Labor Relations Board

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/30/2022

Through its decisions, the five-member National Labor Relations Board interprets the National Labor Relations Act. These decisions set rules that regulate unionized and non-unionized workplaces, including the relationship...more

Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2022

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/7/2022

As the global economy faces the third year of the pandemic, manufacturers are no longer focused on figuring out when things will return to “normal.” Instead, they are applying lessons learned from the past few years to become...more

How Manufacturers Can Prepare for Likely Expansion of Labor Board’s Joint-Employer Rule

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/24/2022

In December 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced it will issue proposed rulemaking on the standard for determining whether two employers are “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)...more

2022: The Year Ahead for Employers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/23/2022

In 2021, the workforce continued adapting to an evolving global pandemic, increasingly consequential social movements and a dramatic shift in employment policy ushered in by a change of leadership at the federal level. ...more

Changing Labor Board Membership Will Require Manufacturers To Review Employment Policies

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/22/2021

The Biden administration has made some early moves that strongly suggest it intends significant changes from the five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that manufacturers should watch closely. Currently, the...more

Free Speech and Expression in the 2021 Workplace

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 2/11/2021

While the presidential election may be in the past, conversations on political and social issues are not. As the new Presidential Administration takes the helm, the pandemic continues, and significant political division...more

Cell Phone Use on Hold in Manufacturing Plants After Recent NLRB Decision

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/29/2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a supplemental decision on May 20, 2020, finding lawful a policy prohibiting employees from possessing or using their cell phones on the manufacturing floor or at their...more

Labor Board Showing Valentine’s Love to . . . A Labor Union?

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 2/14/2020

I think by now regular readers of this column know I embrace my inner geek. I read decisions when they are issued in areas where I am trying to identify trends, anticipate future events, and give clients and friends some...more

Thought The Government was Closed? The Manufacturers’ Smorgasbord!

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 1/30/2019

This week’s post is somewhat breathless because so much happened or is about to happen. You may have thought the government has been closed for the past 35 days. But just like great magicians who get you to watch their right...more

The Trump N.L.R.B. Gift Giving Season

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 12/22/2017

Acting just days before the term of Chairman Phillip Miscimarra ended on December 16, the National Labor Relations Board issued four decisions overturning landmark cases that expanded employee and labor union protections. In...more

The DOL Seeks to Change the Tide

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 7/3/2017

While local state and city governments have been working to expand the scope of workplace protections, the Federal government has begun “undoing” some of the aggressive advancements of the Obama Administration....more

The 2017 “Manufacturers’ Lawyer’s Shrug”

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 12/20/2016

I am a really big fan of the NPR radio show, “Car Talk,” where two Boston auto mechanics took callers’ questions and tried to answer them. Since the November 8 election, I have freely adapted one of their signature phrases –...more

The New “Persuader Rule” and Its Impact on Manufacturers

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/28/2016

The federal Office of Labor-Management Standards (“OLMS”) in the Department of Labor issued a Final Rule, on March 24, 2016, that significantly reinterprets the so-called Persuader Activities Rule. This rule represents the...more

In Fresenius, the NLRB Admits It Was Wrong . . . Sort Of!

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/1/2015

On June 24, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a new decision involving allegations that an employer had unlawfully discharged an employee who had scrawled sexually-oriented obscenities and threatening...more

NLRB Election Rule Under Fire

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 1/15/2015

On January 5, 2015, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Retail Federation, and the Society for Human Resource Management...more

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