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NLRB Returns to Time-Honored Standard for Post-Arbitral Deferral

Littler on 1/9/2020

The National Labor Relations Board recently overturned a decision issued in 2014 and returned to its time-honored standard for post-arbitral deferral in unfair labor practice cases alleging discipline or discharge in...more

Employment Law - April 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/14/2017

Eleventh Circuit: Title VII Doesn’t Prohibit Sexual Orientation Discrimination - Why it matters - In a decision that is already being cited in other courts around the country, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...more

NLRB to Re-Hear Labor Arbs

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 12/18/2014

Another NLRB bombshell. The NLRB used to “defer” statutory issues to arbitration. For example, if an employer and union arbitrated the issue of an employee’s discharge for good cause, the NLRB would not then prosecute an...more

NLRB Considers Radical Changes to Decades-Long Precedent on Deferral to Arbitration

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/22/2014

In yet another attempt to expand protection for employees under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering a new standard for deferral to labor arbitration that, if...more

What 2013 Gifts will Employers be Enjoying well into 2014?

Baker Donelson on 1/14/2014

The holidays have come and gone. I hope everyone enjoyed them, and I hope everyone received the gifts and presents they asked for. I come from a big family—three siblings, 14 aunts and uncles, and nearly twenty cousins....more

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