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By: Paul Galligan and Jade M. Gilstrap

Seyfarth Synopsis: Overturning decade old precedent, the Board found that temporary workers supplied by a staffing agency may be included in a bargaining unit with regular employees of a host employer without the consent of both employers. The Board will apply “traditional community of interest” factors in…

By: Richard L. Alfred, Marshall B. Babson, Joshua L. Ditelberg, Bradford L. Livingston, Stuart Newman, and Karla E. Sanchez

In a ruling that will affect most business relationships and extends far beyond either labor law or the concept of employment generally, the National Labor Relations Board issued a much awaited…

By: Candice Zee

As employers have been watching the Board issue decision after decision holding common-place employment policies unlawful, consider expanding its jurisdiction to include religious schools, graduate students, student athletes, and try to recreate the “joint employer doctrine,” these employers repeatedly have found themselves wondering: “What are these guys smoking?” We may never…

By: Ashley K. Laken, Esq.

On November 22, 2013, a group of home-care providers for Medicaid recipients in Illinois filed their brief in Harris v. Quinn (No. 11-681) in which they urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its precedent allowing union fair share fees to be imposed on public employees.

The Supreme Court…

By Ashley S. Kircher

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday invited the Solicitor General to file an amicus brief expressing the government’s views on whether a state can compel personal care workers to pay fair share fees to a union for representing their interests before state agencies. The Seventh Circuit recently answered this question in…