We’ve been expressing concern about the National Labor Relations Board’s efforts to implement “quickie election” rules for over a
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NLRB Finalizes "Quickie Election" Rules
NLRB Increases Employers' Burdens in Responding to Frivolous Information Requests
If you have unionized workers, you know that a union gets to request information that may be relevant to it its functions. This includes information potentially relevant in deciding to
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California Supreme Court Reaffirms Traditional Analysis Of “Joint Employment” for Franchisors
On July 30, we blogged about the recent efforts of the National Labor Relations Board to hold corporate franchisors, such as McDonald’s, liable for the acts of individual franchisees toward
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Plaintiffs, Unions and the NLRB Stretch to Find Joint Employers
In the quest to expand liability for real and imagined violations of employment laws, and to find more and deeper pockets, the latest target for plaintiffs’ lawyers and unions
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9 Key NLRB Decisions Invalidated by the Supreme Court's Noel Canning Decision
When the Supreme Court decided National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning on June 26, 2014, it invalidated the cases that the NLRB decided between January 4, 2012 and August
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Why Would College Athletes Want To Be Union Anyway?
What’s missing from the rash of news reports and blog posts about the NLRB’s ruling allowing scholarship football players at Northwestern to vote on whether to join a union is
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Temporary Setback for NLRB's Quickie Election Rule
The National Labor Relations Board has dropped its appeal of a district court judge’s decision to void the Board’s quickie election rule. For those of you unfamiliar with the rule,
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NLRB Going Rogue
We’ve posted before about efforts by the NLRB to expand its reach to employers who aren’t subject to collective bargaining agreements. This includes efforts to regulate at-will employment, class-action
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NLRB Clarifies Position On At-Will Disclaimers
Last July, I wrote about efforts by the National Labor Relations Board to argue that certain language in at-will provisions violated section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. As
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