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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 -

The Other Shoe Drops—The NLRB’s “Contingent Workforce” Activism Continues

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/14/2016

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will now permit a single bargaining unit to include employees who are solely employed by an employer along with other employees who are jointly employed by that employer and a...more

Christmas in July: The NLRB Delivers Another Gift to Help Unions Organize Employees

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 7/14/2016

The National Labor Relations Board has once again delivered a blow to employers by overturning a decision (and standard) that required the consent of a regular employer and the employer of temporary staff to allow both sets...more

NLRB Strikes Down Employer Veto of Combined Leased and Regular Employee Bargaining Units: What Should Employers Do Now?

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 7/14/2016

One year after the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or the “Board”) major expansion of its joint employer standard in Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186 (2015) (“BFI”), the NLRB has...more

Stuck With It: Labor Board Forces Employers to Recognize Bargaining Units that Contain Employees of Two or More Separate...

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 7/13/2016

Returning to a decision it made 16 years ago (but was overturned just 4 years after that), the National Labor Relations Board has once again ruled that it will certify a bargaining unit containing individuals from two or more...more

Board Continues Expansion of Joint Employer Doctrine, Allows Unions to Organize Mixed Units of Regular Employees and Staffing...

Miller Canfield on 7/13/2016

Employers who rely on staffing agencies for employees must be aware of the significant expansion in the National Labor Relations Board’s treatment of the joint-employer doctrine as determined in two major recent decisions....more

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