Pro-Union NLRB Contradicts U.S. Supreme Court: Declares Employee Class-Action...
Contributed by Jeff Risch On January 3, 2012, the NLRB held that a nationwide home builder committed an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by implementing a mandatory...
View ArticleEmployers Beware: NLRB Issues Second Report Confirming Employees Have Broad...
Contributed by Jon Hoag On January 24, 2012, the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Soloman, issued his second report regarding how the Board interprets social media cases. The previous social media...
View ArticleThe Internet Police Have Arrived
Contributed by Terry Fox While Al Gore may, or may not, have invented the Internet, there has not been any central enforcement body to regulate manners, civility, or professionalism in individual...
View ArticleElection 2012 Fallout
Contributed by Jeff Risch Elections have consequences. Indeed, there is no question that over the course of 2013, what certain employee-side advocacy groups may not be able to accomplish through...
View ArticleThe Ends Do Not Justify The Means – D.C. Circuit Court Orders NLRB to Explain...
Contributed by Beverly Alfon Over the last several months, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has continued to pick at common employment handbook provisions such as company investigation...
View ArticleThe National Labor Relations Board Wants You!
Contributed by Caryl Flannery Ok, maybe not you, but the Board definitely wants your non-union employees and they’re using Section 7 of the NLRA to get them. In the past, Section 7 was looked upon...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Overrules NLRB: Employers Can Adopt Class Action...
Contributed by Jeffrey A. Risch As previously reported, in January 2012 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that a nationwide home builder committed an unfair labor practice under the...
View ArticleNLRB Weighs In On Dispute Over Kentucky County’s Right-To-Work Laws
Contributed by Julie Proscia and Steven Jados Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (board) filed a legal brief in an ongoing federal lawsuit over the viability of a multi-part right-to-work...
View ArticleToo Little Too Late: NLRB Rejects Employer’s Attempt To Repudiate
Contributed by Beverly Alfon In a 2-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision against an auto dealer, finding that the company violated the National Labor Relations Act...
View Article“We Recommend Keeping This Confidential” Still Violates the Law According to...
Contributed by Jamie Kauther Over the last few years the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has been cracking down on employee confidentiality mandates. An employer can legally require employees...
View ArticleDecision Reminds Employers to Think Before Speaking to Employees About Union...
Contributed by Suzanne Newcomb On September 4, a Federal Appeals Court upheld a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision finding management comments to employees during the early stages of a...
View ArticleHospital’s Second Bite at the Apple Violated Unionized Employees’ Rights for...
Contributed by Heather Bailey Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) – although divided – affirmed that Southcoast Hospitals Group violated unionized workers’ rights under Section...
View ArticleCalifornia Passes Tough Equal Pay Law: Prepare Now for the January 1, 2016...
Contributed by Jonathon Hoag California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law an amendment to California’s gender pay equality law to make it one of the toughest equal pay laws in the nation. The...
View ArticleYep, That Non-Union Employee’s Attitude Is Likely Protected
Contributed by Beverly Alfon Sure, you’ve heard that non-union employees are protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), too. But do you realize just how quickly the protections of the Act...
View ArticleBlunted by the Board: NLRB Weakens Employer’s Right to Permanently Replace...
Contributed by Beverly Alfon, June 30, 2016 For more than 75 years, employers have had broad access to a powerful weapon to counterbalance a union’s ability to engage in an economic strike: the right...
View ArticleYou CAN Ask Your Employees To Be Happy! Federal Appeals Court Reins In...
Contributed by Beverly Alfon, August 17, 2017 Much has been written and discussed about the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) attack on handbook policies over the past several years. The NLRB...
View ArticleDust off Those Handbooks: NLRB Restores Sanity to Employment Policies
Contributed by JT Charron, December 27, 2017 Thirteen years ago the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, 343 NLRB 646, which held that facially...
View ArticleThe Status of Right-to-Work Laws in Select States
Contributed by Suzannah Overholt, June 25, 2019 Illinois recently enacted a Collective Bargaining Freedom Act which bars local governments from establishing “right-to-work” (“RTW”) laws or zones. This...
View ArticleThe Duty to Bargain During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Contributed by Beverly Alfon, March 31, 2020 Scales of Justice, Weight Scale, Balance. Businesses with a unionized workforce need to consider whether their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic...
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