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Beltway Buzz - August 2024 #2

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The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

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Beltway Buzz - August 2024

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The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

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House Considers Bill Declaring Student Athletes Not Employees

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On Thursday, June 13, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing on H.R. 8534, entitled “The Protecting Student Athletes’ Economic Freedom Act” (“Act”). If passed, the Act would...more

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Colorado and Washington Likely to Join Growing List of States Banning Captive Audience Meetings: 5 Steps Employers Can Take to...

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Colorado and Washington will likely become the latest states to ban employers from holding mandatory meetings with employees concerning religious or political matters. Such employer-sponsored meetings, known as “captive...more

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Non-Compete Roundup: Outright Non-Compete Bans Pass; More Pending

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As momentum for regulation of non-competes grows at the federal level, states continue to pass restrictive non-compete legislation on their own. As previously reported, on January 5, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission...more

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Policy Matters Newsletter - June 2023

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Aaaaaand we're back! As we did around the same time last year, we would like the thank the readers for y’all’s patience during our summer hiatus to allow our authors to take a short break to get some Vitamin D and replenish....more

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Top Workplace Law Stories You May Have Missed from May 2023

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more

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2023 Employment Law Updates: Q1 Developments from Pregnancy to Polyamory

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As we discussed in our annual update back in December, employers continue to see extensive developments on the labor and employment front as they progress through 2023. Aside from the minimum wage increases, pay...more

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Beltway Buzz - February 2022 #2

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In a rare moment of bipartisanship - particularly in the labor and employment policy sphere - the U.S. Congress this week passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021. The bill...more

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BREAKING: Senate Committee Proposes Bill to Add Civil Penalties to NLRA

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As we have discussed previously, Congressional Democrats have been attempting to amend the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) for the last few years. ...more

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The NLRB and Congress Move to Protect Union Organizing and Employees through Enhanced Remedies for Both and Increased Penalties...

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On September 8, 2021, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo created quite a stir when she issued a memorandum (GC 21-06) (“Memo”) bearing the subject line “Seeking Full Remedies.” The Memo...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: How the PRO Act Could Change Labor Law, NY HERO Act Safety Plans - Employment Law This Week®

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Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, we look at the potential "game changing" legal and policy shifts coming to labor relations. How the PRO Act Could Change Labor Law (see video attached) The Protecting the Right to...more

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Not All Fun and Games? College Athletes May Soon Drive a Hard Bargain With Union Support

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On May 27, 2021, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced the College Athlete Right to Organize Act seeking to provide collective bargaining rights for college athletes. ...more

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U.S. House Passed the PRO Act: How It Could Affect the Future of Labor Law

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On March 9, 2021, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act (the Act), if it becomes law, would make vast, union-friendly changes to the National Labor...more

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NLRB General Counsel Says “Rat’s It”: Scabby the Rat Here to Stay

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Who is Scabby? Scabby is an inflatable rat, sometimes installed by unions at protests and on picket lines. Scabby has been around since the late 1980s and is a well-known symbol to passersby of an ongoing labor dispute....more

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A Resurrected PRO Act Could Pay Dividends For Big Labor This Time Around

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As we recently forecasted, the House of Representatives has reintroduced a bill designed to radically transform the labor relations landscape, substantially tilting the playing field towards organized labor. The “Protecting...more

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Labor Law Today—2020 Year in Review

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No one needs an introduction to the dominant theme of 2020 in the field of traditional labor law. The main story, as in nearly all fields of law, was the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on every aspect of American lives. ...more

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Bill Aimed at Removing Authority from NLRB Introduced in the Senate

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On October 24, 2019, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Protecting American Jobs Act. The bill, cosponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Marco Rubio...more

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The Practical NLRB Advisor: Spring 2019

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Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the spring 2019 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. This edition provides a close look at the development of the...more

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March 2019: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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January 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Halloween Bill Provides A Scare By Seeking To Prohibit Workplace Arbitration Altogether

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Congress has once again proposed legislation that would seek to ban mandatory workplace arbitration of employment claims, despite a string of United States Supreme Court decisions upholding arbitration and...more

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Web Exclusive - June 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | May 2018 #4

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Advocacy Groups Urge Senate to Support NOSB - A group of advocacy organizations has sent a letter asking the leaders of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry to “fully support organic agriculture in the...more

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Joint Employer Standard Relaxed – For Now

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Business owners, franchisors, contractors, and staffing agencies can breathe a little easier – for the moment – following the National Labor Relations Board’s reversal last month of a controversial Obama-era standard that...more

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