By: Cary Burke and Olivia Jenkins
As labor watchers have come to expect over the past few years, the National Labor Relations Board saved some of its most consequential decisions for release in late December. In a slew of rulings, the Board significantly broadened the categories of damages available to aggrieved employees, re-opened the door
Seyfarth Synopsis: NLRB rules that fast-food company violated the National Labor Relations Act by maintaining a rule prohibiting employees from wearing unauthorized buttons or insignia and by instructing an employee to remove his “Fight For $15” button.
On March 21, NLRB Acting Chairman Miscimarra and Members Pearce and McFerran unanimously ruled
By: Bryan Bienias, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed in part and rejected in part the National Labor Relations Board’s Banner Estrella decision regarding an employer’s requirement of confidentiality during workplace investigations. In doing so, the Court did not address, and essentially left intact, both the Board’s prohibition of
By: Susan Jeanblanc Cohen, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a split decision, the NLRB ruled that off-duty employees of an acute care hospital had the right to picket the hospital’s main lobby entrance.
After the collective bargaining agreement between acute care hospital Capital Medical Center (“the Hospital”) and UFCW Local 21 (“the Union”) expired
By: Ashley Laken
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently denied Quicken Loans, Inc.’s petition for review of an NLRB decision finding that confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in the company’s Mortgage Banker Employment Agreement unreasonably burdened employees’ rights under Section 7 of the NLRA.
Back in 2013, an NLRB
By: Ronald J. Kramer
While all eyes were on the landmark Browning-Ferris decision issued Thursday, the Board issued yet another split decision that also may have far reaching consequences. In GVS Properties, LLC, 362 NLRB No. 194 (Aug. 27, 2015) (here), a case of first impression, the Board in a 2-1 decision
Depending on your point of view, it’s the same old (and new) song. Whether the famous 19th Century line by French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, the lyrics from the 2010 Bon Jovi song, or decisions of the current National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”), it’s apparently true that the more
By: Ashley K. Laken, Esq.
On February 19, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge ruled that a UFCW local union illegally restrained and coerced grocery store employees by requiring them to appear at the union office in person to file objections to paying full membership dues. See United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 135
By: Kenneth R. Dolin
In continuing to apply strict scrutiny to workplace communications, the Board in a 2-1 panel decision recently held that an employer acted unlawfully by posting a memorandum shortly after a union election, urging employees to treat each other with “dignity and respect” and reiterating its workplace violence policy, even though the
By: Ronald J. Kramer, Esq.
On December 19, 2014, the NLRB General Counsel’s Office issued thirteen consolidated complaints against the purported unfair labor practices of numerous McDonald’s franchisees nationwide, with franchisor McDonald’s USA LLC being named as a co-defendant on a joint employer theory. According to the NLRB’s press release, click here, the