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Fifth Circuit Scolds NLRB in Case about Employee Outbursts and Requires Board on Remand to Use Standard it Purported to Overrule

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On July 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit took the latest step in a continuing controversy about when obscenity or other misconduct by a worker, while raising otherwise protected job complaints,...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

NLRB Returns to Decades-Old Standards for Assessing Employee Misconduct at Work

The National Labor Relations Board has reverted to decades-old standards for assessing whether employee misconduct during the course of protected activity should be protected under federal labor law. The Board’s move will...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Union’s Efforts to Scare Employees From Participating in Employer Investigations Rebuked by the Board

On June 5, 2020, the NLRB held, in Teamsters Local Union No. 735-S (Bemis Co., Inc.), 369 NLRB No. 97, that union officials’ retaliatory actions against members who participated in an investigation resulting in the discharge...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Labor Relations During a Pandemic: Employer Duties Under the NLRA in the Wake of COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak implicates many different laws for employers to consider as they develop and refine their responses to rapidly changing circumstances. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is just one of these laws....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

NLRB’s Busy Summer Results in Key Labor Changes

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has been busy this summer—issuing two significant decisions, and one advice memorandum—that tilts the scales in favor of employers. The rulings of the NLRB will have serious...more

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A New Era For Labor Relations? Lawyers Predict Fate Of Top 10 Key Issues

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Among the most crucial federal agencies undergoing a transformation under the new presidential administration is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). During the eight years of the Obama administration, with the Board...more

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