By: John P. Phillips
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a continuation of its push to protect employee free choice, the NLRB issued a final rule on April 1 that returns to the Board’s previous Dana Corp. rule. Under Dana Corp., employees may petition the Board for a secret-ballot election within 45 days of an employer’s voluntary
By John Telford
On February 25, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board”) issued its final rule setting forth the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). The new rule effectively overturned the overly-broad joint employer standard announced in the NLRB’s 2015 Browning-Ferris decision, where the Board ruled that
Seyfarth Synopsis: As the BLS reported more strikes in 2019, employers going into bargaining in 2020 should really consider preparing for the possibility of a work stoppage.
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its annual report of “major work stoppages” in 2019 and the data shows there were 25
By: Molly Clayton Mooney, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 10, in a 3-1 decision, the NLRB in MV Transportation, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 66 (Sept. 10, 2019), adopted the “contract coverage” standard in replacement for its previous “clear and unmistakable waiver” standard for determining when a collective bargaining agreement allows an employer to take unilateral
By: Ashley Laken
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB’s Division of Advice recently released an Advice Memorandum finding that a security company’s work rules were unlawfully overbroad, but that the company did not violate the National Labor Relations Act by discharging one of its employees for posting an insidious Facebook video or by filing a defamation lawsuit
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Board narrowed the circumstances of when a successor employer will be a “perfectly clear” successor. An employer will no longer be forced to bargain prior to setting the initial terms of employment if the employer engaged in discriminatory hiring practices as to some, but not all, of the predecessor’s
By: Robert Fisher, Jeffrey Berman, Skelly Harper and John Ayers-Mann
Seyfarth Synopsis: An important issue for colleges and universities is whether faculty are “managerial” employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and thus precluded from union organizing. Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Yeshiva University that faculty
By: Paul Galligan and Samuel Sverdlov
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB’s Office of General Counsel has issued an Advice Memorandum stating that an employer lawfully refused a union’s information request regarding its tax cut savings during bargaining.
During collective bargaining, employers often deal with an uncomfortable dilemma — comply with invasive and overbroad information requests from
On December 28, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit), in a 2-1 decision (Browning-Ferris Indus. of Cal. v. NLRB, No. 16-1028), invalidated the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) controversial joint employer test adopted in Browning-Ferris, 362 NLRB No. 186
Seyfarth Synopsis: In September 2018, the NLRB released its new proposed rule regarding the joint employer standard. The NLRB extended the comment period twice since the release of the new proposed rule. Comments are now due on or before January 14, 2019.
Individuals waiting on pins and needles in anticipation of
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