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D.C. Circuit Erases NLRB Joint Employer Order After Google-Cognizant Contract Lapses

The D.C. Circuit’s April 22, 2025 decision offers an important lesson on joint-employer cases under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”): without an ongoing contractual relationship, the dispute can vanish in a...more

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ALJ Backs Hospital’s Right to Delay Returning Strikers to Work

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An NLRB administrative law judge recently confirmed that a California hospital system had the right to keep replacement workers on the job for the duration of its contractual commitment to a staffing agency even though...more

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Managing labour cost: Insights and lessons for the resource and other sectors for 2025

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Employers in the resources sector are watchful of legal developments in 2025 that could significantly impact their labour strategies, particularly their ability to engage, utilise and remove contractors. With non-labour costs...more

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Strike Averted: Longshoremen, USMX Reach Tentative Agreement on All Terms

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The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) announced a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract. Both parties described the deal as a “win-win,” addressing the...more

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Uphill Battle for Employer Unilateral Changes as NLRB Returns to “Clear and Unmistakable Waiver” Standard

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The National Labor Relations Board returned to prior precedent, making it more difficult for employers to defend against unfair labor practice charges alleging a unilateral change in violation of the National Labor Relations...more

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The UAW Paradox: Consequences of “Successful” Labor Strike Continue to Materialize One Year Later

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Last year, the United Auto Workers (“UAW”) championed what they considered to be a massive win derived from more than 50,000 of its 146,000 members striking at various Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors plants across twenty...more

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[Webinar] 2023 NLRB Year in Review - December 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST

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Adams and Reese Partner Michael MacHarg will lead a one hour CLE webinar to discuss important updates from the National Labor Relations Board over the past year. Registration is free. The webinar will take place Tuesday,...more

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Potential NFL Running Back Union? Lessons To Be Learned from Derrick Henry And Other Top RBs As They Discuss Feeling Devalued In...

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Recently, star Tennessee Titans Running Back, Derrick Henry, admitted to forming a group chat linking all of the top NFL running backs together to discuss long-held sentiments of feeling devalued in their positions as running...more

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Connecticut Legislation Changes Overtime Rules for Nurses and Abrogates Collective Bargaining Rights of Private-Sector Hospitals

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Provisions included in a must-pass budget bill will make significant changes for Connecticut hospitals. These changes, which were embedded in the nearly 900-page Public Act 23-204 signed into law on June 12, 2023, revise...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Third Circuit Takes Supreme Court Cue and Rejects “Implied” Union Contracts

On March 30, 2022, three judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overruled prior precedent allowing “implied” contracts to survive the expiration of a written agreement. The instant panel held, instead,...more

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Can't it be about Cannabis? Connecticut Seeds the Path to Unionization

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Connecticut recently legalized recreational marijuana use by adults. The new law creates complex employment protections for recreational marijuana users. The same legislation also includes provisions that strongly encourage...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

NLRB Restores Decades Old Case Law Related to Employee Discipline Prior to Negotiation of a First Contract

The National Labor Relations Board has restored a prior standard, one that had stood for about 80 years before being overturned in 2016, which governs an employer’s duty to bargain over employee discipline during the time...more

Cozen O'Connor

Employment Law Now: IV-51 - A New 2020 Vision

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In this first new episode of 2020 (Season 4), we look at the 15 hot topics your company should have on your list to think about....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NLRB Reinstates Broad Deferral of Discrimination Cases to Arbitration, Overruling the Obama Board’s 2014 Decision in Babcock &...

The Trump National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB) gifted employers a significant win on the eve of the Christmas holiday with its December 23 decision in United Parcel Service, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 1 (UPS), which...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

NLRB Gives End of Year Gift for Employers, Restores Longstanding Standard for Deferring to Arbitral Decisions

In yet another end-of-2019 decision overruling significant NLRA precedent, the Board reverted to the less stringent Spielberg / Olin standard for determining whether to defer to arbitration decisions in the context of Section...more

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NLRB Revives Prior Standard on Arbitral Deference

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On December 23, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, or the Board) overturned an Obama-era decision regarding deference to labor arbitration proceedings....more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.02.2019 | Top Story: US Restores Metal Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil

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The White House will again slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Argentina and Brazil in an apparent reaction to “massive devaluation” of  currencies in both South American nations....more

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

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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

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Financial Daily Dose 11.01.2019 | Top Story: Watching for the GM-strike Impact on the October Jobs Report

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Jobs Report Friday again. Here’s what we’re watching, including the possibility of scary low numbers thanks to the only-recently-resolved GM strike....more

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The Protocol for the Legitimation of Existing Collective Bargaining Agreements (Mexico)

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On July 31, 2019, the Ministry of Labor (the “ML”) published the Protocol for the Legitimation of existing Collective Bargaining Agreements (the “Protocol”). The legitimation process should take place before May 1, 2023....more

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