The National Labor Relations Board is charged with holding union elections whenever petitioners demonstrate that a sufficient number of employees in a particular workplace wish to become unionized. The NLRB’s “quickie election” rules have changed how this process plays out, and how employers shoul...
For this reason, effective immediately, we are waiving the contractual requirement for arbitration of sexual harassment claims in our own arbitration agreements for the limited number of employees who have this requirement.”To read Uber’s announcement, click here....
The bill would make permanentan employer tax credit for family leave implemented in 2018 that’s set to expire next year, while expanding the number of businesses eligible to receive it. It would also give employers the optionto allow employees to take advantage of the leave ...
The Fifth Circuit held that "this argument is no longer viable" after Kentucky River.Effect On Unionization Campaigns and Contract Negotiations. Because the case potentially broadens the number of employees who will be considered supervisors ...
Number of Attendees: Description Have you updated your social media policy to address NLRB's new measures to protect employees' online posts? NLRB and Social Media Policy The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently decided that disciplining employees for social media posts that consti...
The facts in the record established that the funding packages provided to the graduate students did not constitute payment in exchange for their acting, directing, or ushering roles, particularly where the amount of students’ funding did not depend on the number of productions they ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been accused by a U.S. labor agency of requiring employees who were laid off or fired from the rocket and satellite maker to sign unlawful agreements barring them from disparaging the company and joining class-action lawsuits against it. ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Case Status Decided Docket Number 07-1391 (Consolidated With No. 07-1436) Share Case Updates Outcome April 21, 2009 The D.C. Circuit set aside a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that FedEx had unlawfully refused to bargain with the...
A joint employment relationship exists when more than one company is considered the legal employer of a group of workers. Previous Board and court decisions had held that an “employer [must] not only possess the authority to control employees' terms and conditions of employment, but must also ...
The ruling is the latest incident in the battle by employees to be recognized as being unionized, and for Apple to limit unionization efforts. A number of stores have successfully managed to unionize, but not without considerable pushback from Apple. ...