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Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter - May 2024

Jenner & Block on 5/24/2024

Welcome to the May 2024 edition of the Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter, a publication containing updates about legal developments in the United States that may be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the Japanese...more

Busy Inside the Beltway: Recent Activity by the DOL, EEOC, NLRB and FTC

BCLP on 6/8/2023

Federal agencies responsible for employment-related matters have been busy in recent weeks issuing guidance, updated workplace posters, and more. Let’s get caught up...more

EEOC, Other Federal Agencies Set the Pace for Employers Using AI in the Workplace

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/19/2023

It is safe to say that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) went mainstream in 2023. With the widening acceptance of AI, dozens of industries have raced to adopt the technology into various operations at a staggering pace...more

NLRB General Counsel Issues Memorandum on Increased Inter-Agency Coordination, Collaboration

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/14/2022

The National Labor Relations Board is pushing forward with its plan to cooperate more closely with other Federal agencies tasked with overseeing employment law. This follows an announcement in November 2021 that the National...more

Labor Update: What Got Our Attention in the Past Three Months

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/12/2021

There has been a lot of labor activity in the past three months. President Biden announced the two appointees who would join National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran to create a majority of Democrats on the Board....more

NLRB General Counsel Office Moves to Decidedly Pro-Labor Perspective

CDF Labor Law LLP on 7/27/2021

Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden needed a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris to confirm his nomination of Jennifer Abruzzo for General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board....more

New NLRB General Counsel Peter Song Ohr Makes First Significant Move

CDF Labor Law LLP on 2/1/2021

Following up on our earlier post about all the moves President Biden was making at the NLRB General Counsel’s office, we now know that our temporary NLRB GC is Peter Song Ohr. Ohr is known as a straight shooting, publicity...more

Senate Confirms Pair of Appointees to National Labor Relations Board

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 7/30/2020

In a package deal, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointments of two members to the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”). Lauren McFerran, who previously served as a member of the NLRB for five years until her...more

NLRB Wraps up Blockbuster Year with a Bang

Stinson LLP on 1/10/2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a whirlwind series of rulings to cap off 2019. The NLRB typically issues many decisions near the end of a Board member's term, so this flurry comes as no surprise...more

California Attempts to Weed Out Unfair Labor Practices at the State Level by Enacting Union-Friendly Regulation on Employers in...

FordHarrison on 11/18/2019

As the cannabis industry has rapidly progressed over the years, states such as New York, New Jersey and Illinois have begun to implement legislation that encourages employers to engage in labor peace agreements with unions....more

Financial Daily Dose 5.15.2019 | Top Story: Disney to Assume Full Control of Hulu

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/15/2019

Disney will take total control of the TV and movie streaming service Hulu after forking over at least $5.8 billion to buy out last remaining partner, Comcast. That price won’t be determined for a while, though, as the sale...more

Employer’s Litigation Hold Not Unlawful, NLRB Division of Advice Concludes

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 12/24/2018

Last year about this time, the NLRB changed the standard for reviewing handbook rules. The new standard takes into consideration the fact there are many other interests other than the NLRA at play in a workplace, and seems to...more

II-36- Holiday Party Tips, the 2018/2019 Federal Regulatory Agenda, and Noteworthy Cases On Suing and Being Sued

Cozen O'Connor on 11/1/2018

This episode offers a Top 10 list of thoughts to minimize problems at your company's upcoming holiday party, discusses what's in the recently-published 2018/2019 federal regulatory agenda, and highlights two noteworthy cases...more

Seventh Circuit Issues Two Opinions Limiting Scope of State and Local Authority over Labor Law

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/10/2018

Over the course of the past two weeks, the Seventh Circuit has issued two separate opinions that limit the ability of state and local governments to craft their own labor law policy. In doing so, the court created a circuit...more

NLRB Extends Deadline for Amici to Address Purple Communications Ruling

Polsinelli on 9/5/2018

On August 31, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) extended the deadline for public comment regarding whether the Board should revisit its 2014 ruling in Purple Communications, 361 NLRB 126 (2014). ...more

NLRB’s Position on Unions’ Right to Use Employers’ Email Could Change

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 8/3/2018

Another Obama-era National Labor Relations Board policy may be on the ropes. Four years ago, the Board issued its controversial Purple Communications decision. In that case, it determined that employees have the right to...more

NLRB Pursues Rulemaking to Address Joint-Employer Standard

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/16/2018

Companies attempting to determine whether they are joint employers of certain workers under the National Labor Relations Act (Act) have been confronted with a shifting landscape during the past few years as the National Labor...more

The NLRB Expands the Use of Confidentiality Rules in The Boeing Co.

Littler on 7/3/2018

As most employers are aware, the National Labor Relations Board’s decision in The Boeing Co., 365 NLRB No. 154 (2017), established a new standard that significantly broadens the scope of rules, policies, and handbook...more

NLRB General Counsel Issues Much Needed Guidance on Employee Handbooks

Burr & Forman on 6/20/2018

On June 6, 2018, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a memorandum providing guidance on how employer rules should be interpreted following the Board’s December 2017 holding in Boeing, which set...more

Coming Soon: NLRB Promises Rulemaking on Joint-Employer Standard by End of Summer

Polsinelli on 6/15/2018

By letter dated June 5, 2018, National Labor Relations Board Chairman John Ring announced that the Board will issue a proposed regulation to determine when employers may be considered joint employers under the National Labor...more

NLRB General Counsel Issues Handbook on Handbook Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 6/8/2018

Following up on the NLRB’s decision in The Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (Dec. 14, 2017), on June 6, NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb issued a new Guidance Memorandum (18-04) detailing how NLRB Regional Offices receiving...more

Gridlock Broken: Senate Confirms John Ring as Newest Member of NLRB

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 4/13/2018

By a vote of 50 to 48 the U.S. Senate confirmed Republican John Ring as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, giving the agency a full five member complement. Member Ring, whose term expires December 16, 2022, takes...more

With Senate Confirmation of NLRB Member John Ring, NLRB Shifts to Republican Majority

Franczek P.C. on 4/12/2018

Yesterday, the Senate, voting along party lines 50 to 48, confirmed John Ring as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. With Ring’s confirmation, the five-member NLRB is now fully staffed with a 3-2 Republican...more

General Counsel Dishes Up Advice on 43 Charges, Including Google’s Decision to Terminate an Employee for Harassment and a Union’s...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/23/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: In some early spring cleaning, last week the NLRB’s Office of General Counsel released 43 memos authored by its Division of Advice meant to provide guidance to regional offices on pending charges. Here are...more

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

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone on 1/29/2018

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 expending employee and labor union protections. In a...more

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