In the closing days of outgoing Chairman Phil Miscimarra’s term, the National Labor Relations Board issued three major decisions reversing field on significant issues of labor-management relations and requested public comment...more
12/20/2017
/ Boeing ,
Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Franchises ,
Joint Employers ,
Micro-Unions ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Specialty Healthcare ,
Unions
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In the final year of his two term tenure, President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor continued their double barrelled efforts to remake labor law to benefit labor...more
1/18/2017
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
At-Will Employment ,
Blacklist ,
Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
LMRDA ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
Unions
As previously reported, on March 23, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its reinterpretation of the “persuader” rule in the Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA), originally scheduled to be...more
In a 2-to-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “the Board”) overturned longstanding precedent to hold that student teaching assistants can be classified as employees under the National Labor Relations Act...more
In a much-anticipated decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on July 11, 2016, reversed its existing precedent on organizing of temporary employees. In Miller & Anderson, Inc., the NLRB ruled that permanent...more
On March 23, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its long-anticipated reinterpretation of the “persuader” rule in the Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). Spanning more than 400 pages, the...more
National Labor Relations Board spends Most of 2015 With a Full Complement of Members; Down to Four at Year’s End.
For about two-thirds of the year, the National Labor Relations Board operated with a full complement of...more
1/21/2016
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Joint Employers ,
LMRDA ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
SEIU ,
Unions ,
United Food and Commercial Workers Union ,
Wage Act
As we previously reported on Aug. 27 and 28 (on our blog Labor Relations Today), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued its ruling in Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186 (Aug....more
9/11/2015
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Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Franchises ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Right to Control ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Teamsters ,
Unions
Under current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) standards, a union can organize a bargaining unit of an employer’s regular employees and temporary employees supplied by a staffing agency only if both the employer and the...more
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) “ambush election rules,” which make sweeping changes to the procedures applicable in union representation cases, took effect on April 14, 2015....more
On Dec. 12, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that it will issue the long-anticipated “ambush election” rules on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. The new rules, adopted by a divided NLRB split along party lines,...more
On December 11, 2014, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) - split along party lines - overturned existing precedent regarding an employer’s right to control its email system, and held that employees have a...more