Employment Law Now IV-54- A Guest Discussion on 3 Significant Government Decisions
Way back in 2018, we wrote about the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Janus, which held that compelling public sector employees to pay “fair share fees” to unions violates the First Amendment. As a refresher, a...more
Executive Summary: On May 9, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 256, which overhauls Florida’s Public Employees Relations Act, implementing significant changes to procedures related to dues authorization...more
On Friday, March 24, 2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill that repeals Michigan’s Right-to-Work law and reinstates prevailing wages for construction projects. In effect since 2013, Michigan’s...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a decision which held that employers who currently do not remit union dues because of the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) may be found to be in...more
On Monday, October 3, 2022, in Valley Hospital Medical Center II, the National Labor Relations Board reversed a 50-year-old precedent, ruling that employers violate the National Labor Relations Act by unilaterally ceasing to...more
With its decision in Valley Hospital Medical Center, the NLRB reversed its Trump-era precedent and held that dues checkoff provisions in collective bargaining agreements survive the expiration of the contract. Accordingly,...more
In a decision dated September 30, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employers must continue to collect voluntarily authorized union dues from the paychecks of employees after the expiration of the...more
The National Labor Relations Board just ruled that employers must continue to collect union dues even after the collective bargaining agreement has expired, a decision that will require many businesses to alter their labor...more
On October 3, in the case of Valley Hospital, the National Labor Relations Board answered a question that has impacted employers for almost 60 years: whether, under Section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act, an...more
Takeaway: The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent decision to overturn prior case law applies retroactively to all pending cases. Employers currently refusing to remit union dues because of the expiration of a...more
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo’s appointment and subsequent July confirmation marked a shift to a pro-labor perspective. On August 12, 2021, Abruzzo issued her first GC Memorandum as...more
On June 1, 2021, in a 5-2 decision, the Missouri Supreme Court sitting en banc affirmed a circuit court decision that voided in its entirety HB 1413, which was enacted by the Missouri legislature in 2018 and sought to change...more
On Thursday, January 30, members of Verrill’s Labor & Employment Group and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group conducted a full-day seminar on employment law topics to prepare HR professionals, managers, and...more
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
In what is seemingly becoming an annual tradition, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board” or the “NLRB”) wrapped up the year with a number of significant pronouncements. Among these actions were rulings narrowing...more
In Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Valley Hospital Medical Center, 368 NLRB No. 139 (2019), the National Labor Relations Board reversed yet another decision issued during the prior administration, and returned to...more
Approximately four years ago, during the Obama Administration, the National Labor Relations Board upended decades of well-settled precedent by making it unlawful for employers to unilaterally cease dues checkoff pursuant to a...more
On December 16, the final day of lone Democrat Lauren McFerran’s term, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) overruled a recent, Obama-era decision that required an employer to comply with its union dues...more
Continuing its shift toward more employer-friendly workplace decisions, the National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB) in Valley Hospital Medical Center held that employers may cease deducting union dues from employees’...more
The National Labor Relations Board just decided that employers have the right to cease union dues collections once the relevant collective bargaining agreement expires, again restoring balance to the labor relations...more
Mid-December is always a time where one can expect significant decisions to issue from the NLRB. In recent years, we saw the Board, among other decisions, abandon the much criticized “micro unit” standard and the equally...more
The National Labor Relations Board has held that an employer’s obligation to deduct union dues ends when the collective bargaining agreement containing the checkoff provision expires. Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc....more
Last year, the Iowa legislature made significant changes to Iowa Code Chapter 20, the Public Employment Relations Act. One of the most significant is the scope of bargaining for certain public sector employees....more
On June 20, 2019, Oregon governor Kate Brown signed House Bill (HB) 2016 into law. The legislation brings sweeping changes for public sector employers and unions in an effort to increase unions’ direct access to represented...more
Union security and dues checkoff are both important subjects that come up during collective bargaining. In this episode of the Third Thursdays podcast, Ruthie Goodboe discusses the impact of union security and dues checkoff...more