As unions across the U.S. are increasingly targeting nonprofits, management must understand why this is happening and what can be done to prevent and effectively respond to these challenges. In this Employment Law Alliance webinar moderated by Steve Hirschfeld, our panelists will answer the following key questions: Why are nonprofits being so aggressively targeted by…
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On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a new rule addressing how the Board will assess joint employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. In short, the new rule lowers the bar significantly for finding two entities to be joint employers and raises heightened concerns about the…
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The NLRB announced today that the unionization effort at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse was resoundingly defeated. Seventy percent of the votes counted opposed SEIU’s effort to represent this fulfillment center’s workers. This union drive was publicly supported by President Biden along with many other democratic leaders and Hollywood celebrities. Amazon conducted an aggressive messaging campaign…
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided yesterday in Bethany College that it does not have jurisdiction over faculty at religious schools and colleges, overruling a 2014 decision which held the opposite. Click here to download the NLRB decision. The NLRB will decline jurisdiction over labor union election petitions and unfair labor practice claims if…
Read More ›On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) – the entity responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) – overturned a handbook standard that has been plaguing employers for more than a decade. In its place, the Board stated a new balancing test that is significantly more employer-friendly. Background In its…
Read More ›It has been a busy month for the federal courts in Texas, and a long one for the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”). As we blogged here last week, on November 21, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked implementation of the DOL’s rule that would have…
Read More ›In this blog, we have previously covered the United States’ Department of Labor’s controversial efforts to effect a significant change to the so-called “Persuader Rule,” a regulation first proposed by the United States Department of Labor in 2011, and finally enacted in April of this year, to essentially eliminate the “Advice Exception” to the Labor…
Read More ›Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a rehearing, and have also requested that such rehearing take place after the Court obtains a full complement of Justices capable of reaching resolution by a…
Read More ›Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a rehearing, and have also requested that such rehearing take place after the Court obtains a full complement of Justices capable of reaching resolution by a…
Read More ›If you asked 100 non-union employers whether they thought they would be required to admit union representatives to inspections of their facilities, probably 99 of them would say no. It turns out they are wrong, at least according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under President Obama. In a little-publicized interpretative bulletin recently issued, OSHA…
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