NLRB Releases Important End-of-Year Decisions
In a flurry of activity coinciding with the end of the term of National Labor Relations Board Member Brian Hayes (whose term ended on December 16), the NLRB has issued significant decisions relating to...
View ArticleComplaint over Working in Unsafe Neighborhood Protected, NLRB Finds, Rejects...
Employers may be interested in a recent post on the Jackson Lewis LLP Workplace Resource Center discussing a recent NLRB decision about protected concerted activity. Click here for more information.…...
View ArticleNLRB Judge Says Employer’s Baseball Cap Logo Restriction Violates Employees’...
An employer’s policy prohibiting employees from wearing baseball caps other than the employer’s is an unlawful restriction on employees’ Section 7 activity, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge has...
View ArticleALJ Finds No Protected Employee Right to Record Workplace Conversations
While employees making audio or video recordings of others in the workplace have long concerned employers, companies usually refrain from banning employee recording, uneasy about potentially infringing...
View ArticleTerminations Lawful for Statement Not Impugned by Discharged Employees’...
The National Labor Relations Board’s Division of Advice has concluded an employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act for terminating two workers for a statement about their pay and other...
View ArticleEmployee’s Facebook ‘Like’ is Part of Concerted Activity: NLRB
An employee’s selection of the “Like” option under a former employee’s initial Facebook status update was “an expression of approval” of the initial status update it followed (and therefore part of...
View ArticleFirings for Facebook Comments Unlawful, NLRB Rules
An employer violated the National Labor Relations Act by discharging two employees because of their participation in a Facebook discussion about their employer’s State income tax withholding mistakes,...
View ArticleEmployer’s Warning Violates NLRA, Board Rules
An employer’s verbal warning for “continued frivolous requests for information…and interfering with the operation of the business,” directed to a shop steward who made two requests to the employer for...
View ArticleNLRB Requires Employers to Let Employees Use Workplace Email Systems for...
In a landmark and not-unexpected ruling, the National Labor Relations Board decided today to require employers to allow their employees to use company email systems for Section 7 (union organizing and...
View ArticleNLRA Protection Accorded Class or “Collective” Action Brought By Single-Employee
The National Labor Relations Board has decided that “a single employee who files a lawsuit ostensibly on behalf of himself and other employees is engaged in protected concerted activity.” (Emphasis...
View ArticleNon-Union, Specialty Lights Maker Must Return Work from Mexico, Federal...
The NLRB properly found a non-union employer unlawfully retaliated against striking employees and violated the National Labor Relations Act by transferring work from Illinois to Mexico, the federal...
View ArticleNLRB General Counsel Concludes Division I Scholarship Football Players are...
Scholarship football players in Division I FBS private sector colleges and universities are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F....
View ArticleNLRB GC Instructs Regions to Hold on Class Action Waiver Cases Until Supreme...
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has instructed Regional Offices to hold in abeyance cases involving mandatory arbitration agreements with opt in or opt out clauses. Regions...
View ArticleSupreme Court Delays Oral Argument in Class Action Waiver Cases
The United States Supreme Court has notified the parties in National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Case No. 16-307; Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, Case No. 16-285; and Ernst & Young LLP v....
View ArticleShort List of Possible Trump NLRB Candidates Reported
President Donald J. Trump has narrowed his list of candidates to fill the two open seats on the five-member National Labor Relations Board to Marvin Kaplan, William Emanuel, and Douglas Seaton,...
View ArticleDOL Chief Nominee Acosta’s Hearing Scheduled for March22
The hearing on Alexander Acosta’s nomination to become Secretary of Labor has been scheduled for March 22. The hearing, in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,...
View ArticleMiscimarra Named NLRB Chairman
The National Labor Relations Board has announced that Republican Philip A. Miscimarra has been named NLRB Chairman by President Donald J. Trump. Miscimarra had been designated Acting Chairman by...
View ArticleSolicitor General Reviewing Government’s Position in Class Action Waivers Cases
Last week, the Supreme Court extended the deadline for initial briefs from April 28, 2017 to June 9, 2017 in three consolidated cases raising the issue whether arbitration agreements between individual...
View ArticlePresident to Nominate Republican Attorneys to Fill Labor Board Vacancies
Attorneys Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel will be nominated by President Donald J. Trump to fill the two openings on the five-member National Labor Relations Board, according to the Daily Labor...
View ArticleLabor Board Allows Evidence to Explain Employee Handbook Ban on Video Recording
The National Labor Relations Board has denied a motion for summary judgment by the NLRB’s General Counsel in a case involving Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc.’s maintenance of an employee handbook...
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