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The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States federal government created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board consists of five presidentially-appointed members, who are charged with overseeing union elections and hearing complaints of unfair labor practices under the NLRA. less -

NLRB Will No Longer Exercise Jurisdiction Over Religious Educational Institutions

Fisher Phillips on 6/12/2020

In a major reversal of a 2014 Obama-era precedent, the National Labor Relations Board just ruled that it will no longer assert jurisdiction over bona fide religiously affiliated schools. This decision is of enormous...more

Labor Board Will Decide Organizing Rights of Non-Teaching Employees at Religious Colleges, Universities

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/25/2016

The National Labor Relations Board is set to decide if the same test used to determine whether teaching employees of a religious school are subject to the Board’s jurisdiction should be extended to non-teaching employees....more

The NLRB Goes Back to Church (Schools), Gets Entangled

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/2/2015

In our June 2015 blog post, “NLRB Moves to Assert Jurisdiction Over Religious Educational Institutions,” we reported that Regional Directors of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were beginning to exercise jurisdiction...more

NLRB Issues Significant Decision on Faculty Unionization

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/6/2015

The National Labor Relations Board (Board) recently ruled that it would assert jurisdiction over Pacific Lutheran University's (PLU’s) full-time contingent faculty members. In the context of a union's attempt to organize...more

The National Labor Relations Board Strikes Again – How Managerial Are Your Faculty and How Religious Is Your Institution?

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 12/23/2014

In the latest example of dramatic changes to well-developed principles of federal labor law and policy, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) issued its long awaited decision in Pacific Lutheran University,...more

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