NLRB, Title VII, Unions

SCOTUS 2023/24 Lookback and Preview: 8 Key Rulings that Impact the Workplace and 4 New Cases for Employers to Track Next Term

Fisher Phillips on 7/18/2024

The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more

Deciphered Insights: Labor and Employment Legal Considerations

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 1/29/2024

Five Ward and Smith attorneys provided updates related to employment law, including non-compete agreements, unionization efforts, pregnancy laws, and overtime rules for exempt employees, during the firm’s recent In-House...more

Q2 Employment Law Updates: Non-Competes, Religious Accommodation and More

DarrowEverett LLP on 7/18/2023

So far, 2023 has been a wild ride for employers, a theme that looks to be continuing into the third quarter of the year. While certain predictions we made during Q1 came true in Q2 (we are looking at you, NLRB), others such...more

Court's Bench-slap of NLRB Whipsaws Employers, Unions, Arbitration, & Even the First Amendment

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 5/15/2023

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a decision that is highly critical of the NLRB, yet its end result promises significant mischief when it comes to employment litigation. International Brotherhood of...more

The Labor Law Insider: Joint Employer Standard Changes: Beware, Part I

Husch Blackwell LLP on 10/21/2022

Husch Blackwell's Tom Godar of the Labor Law Insider welcomes two new experts as they discuss the shifting standards for joint employer status and the significant impact they can have upon employers, both union and...more

The Top 20 Non-COVID Workplace Law Stories Of 2020

Fisher Phillips on 12/11/2020

That this past year was the most challenging year in your professional life is an almost certainty. You were forced to learn entirely new statutory schemes, absorb new local health directives on a near-daily basis, create a...more

Political Activism, COVID-19, And Labor Law

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/18/2020

This information could come in handy for employers. The National Labor Relations Board has made public three Advice letters dealing with the two hottest topics of our times: Political activism, and COVID-19. In each case, a...more

The Top 5 (Non-COVID-19) Developments In Dealership Employment Law

Fisher Phillips on 8/5/2020

You have probably seen a lot of coronavirus news alerts lately, but as a car dealer, you already know that germs are not the only things that can cause headaches. Virus or no virus, the law is still going to change and...more

June 2020: The Top 21 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 8/3/2020

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

A Return to Workplace Civility: The NLRB Adopts the Wright Line Burden-Shifting Approach to Section 7 Speech

Littler on 7/23/2020

During a pandemic, protests, and a polarized election season, employers have walked an ever-increasingly fine line between protecting employee speech in the workplace and enforcing rules on workplace conduct....more

National Labor Relations Board Reopens Rules Related to Union Activity

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/18/2019

The National Labor Relations Board continues its efforts to revisit earlier decisions that expanded protections for employees engaged in concerted or union activities. On September 5, the board announced it is soliciting...more

Web Exclusive: June 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 7/15/2019

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

Labor Board Back to Five Member Composition – What Obama-Era Precedent Is Next on the Chopping Block?

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/27/2018

On April 11, 2018, former management lawyer John Ring was confirmed via a 50-48 party-line vote to serve on the five-member National Labor Relations Board (“Board”). Ring will replace Chairman Marvin Kaplan, another member of...more

Don’t Call It A Comeback: The “Return” Of Workplace Civility Rules

Fisher Phillips on 3/7/2018

Dear Susan, I have to tell you about a situation that has been occurring between John and myself. But it’s not what you think! Well, maybe it is. I don’t know. I’m hoping that, as our supervisor, you can help me. To put it...more

Employment Law - July 2017 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/1/2017

Union Posters Crossed the Line, Eighth Circuit Rules - Why it matters - A group of Jimmy John’s workers lost the protection of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) with a disloyal poster campaign, the U.S. Court of...more

April 2017: The 13 Biggest Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 5/5/2017

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. April 2017 was another month...more

What Can the Business Community Expect from a Trump Administration

Rumberger | Kirk on 1/18/2017

As Donald Trump’s administration takes shape, the business community stands watch expecting a business-friendly White House. Trump’s promises of fewer regulations and lower taxes have small and large businesses alike feeling...more

What Employers Can Expect From The Trump Administration

Franczek P.C. on 11/15/2016

Like the rest of the country, employers and HR professionals are left wondering what Donald Trump’s unexpected election as President means for the country. The Trump campaign was often light on detailed policy proposals, but...more

With the Election (Mercifully) Behind Us, What Will a Trump Administration Mean for Employers?

Littler on 11/10/2016

The 2016 Presidential election was arguably the most contentious, unpredictable, and politically polarizing race in this nation's history. The contours of the electoral map changed by the hour in the days leading up to...more

Never too Late for Some 2016 Employment Predictions!

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 1/22/2016

While we are still saying “Happy New Year” (I checked and was told that January 21 was still “not too late” to wish good tidings for 2016), and as we get ready for the Great East Coast Blizzard of 2016, I thought it would be...more

The Joint Employer Doctrine Strikes Again

Sands Anderson PC on 9/2/2015

In a post last month (Serving Two Masters- Fourth Circuit Recognizes the Joint Employment Doctrine), we discussed the July 15th Fourth Circuit opinion of Butler v. Drive Auto. Indus. of Am, which made the joint employment...more

Unfortunately, Offensive Racial Comments Don’t Always Get You Fired (At Least Under Labor Law)

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/24/2015

Under the National Labor Relations Act, certain union activities are considered “protected.” That is, employees engaging in union activity, or union representatives carrying out their duties in the context of grievance...more

Executive Labor Summary - July/August 2014

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 8/28/2014

NLRB extends Weingarten right of union representation to drug and alcohol test situations - On July 31, a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board in Ralph's Grocery Co. ruled that a union-represented...more

Take 5 Newsletter: Five Labor and Employment Issues Faced by Health Care Employers

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/23/2014

As the Affordable Care Act and the challenges of reimbursement and funding for health care services drive changes in the health care delivery system and employment in the industry, new issues in labor and employment law are...more

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