Seventh Circuit Holds Class Action Waivers are Unlawful and Unenforceable...
On May 26, 2016, in the matter of Lewis v. Epic Systems Corporation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that an arbitration agreement, which required employees to submit to...
View ArticleNLRB Allows Student Assistants to Unionize, Signals Commitment to Expanding...
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “the Board”) reversed standing precedent and held that student assistants at private universities, including both graduate and...
View ArticleNLRB Orders Union To Drop Unlawful Grievance, to Dismiss Suit Seeking to...
On May 23, the NLRB issued Road Sprinkler Fitters Local Union 669, finding that U.A. Local 669 (Union) violated the NLRA when it sought to apply and enforce facially valid anti-double breasting...
View ArticleLabor Relations Update: New NLRB General Counsel Nominee Poised to Undo...
Senate Republicans recently confirmed William Emanuel, the second Trump nominee to the five-member National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”), giving the Board a Republican majority for the first...
View ArticleNew Labor Board GC Signals Overturning Obama-Era Rulings, But Anticipated...
On November 8, 2017, Peter B. Robb was sworn in as the General Counsel (GC) of the NLRB for a four year term. Robb succeeds Richard Griffin, who has been the GC since November 2013. Robb wasted no time...
View ArticleNew Labor Board May Kill “Quickie Election” Rule; Requests Public RFI
The NLRB announced yesterday, a Request for Information (“RFI”) on the Board’s 2014 “Quickie Election” representation regulations (at 29 CFR parts 101 and 102). The RFI seeks input on the amendments to...
View Article“Panic Button” Laws Make Their Way Across The U.S.
Last August, we wrote about a Chicago ordinance requiring hotel employers to, among other things, equip hotel employees assigned to work in guestrooms or restrooms with portable emergency contact...
View ArticleIt’s OK to Be Different- NLRB Rules That Union Represented Employees Are Not...
Does an employer automatically engage in unlawful discrimination when it grants an improved benefit to its non-union employees but withholds the improvement from its union employees who are covered by...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Holds Class Action Waivers are Unlawful and Unenforceable...
On May 26, 2016, in the matter of Lewis v. Epic Systems Corporation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that an arbitration agreement, which required employees to submit to...
View ArticleNLRB Allows Student Assistants to Unionize, Signals Commitment to Expanding...
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “the Board”) reversed standing precedent and held that student assistants at private universities, including both graduate and...
View ArticleNLRB Orders Union To Drop Unlawful Grievance, to Dismiss Suit Seeking to...
On May 23, the NLRB issued Road Sprinkler Fitters Local Union 669, finding that U.A. Local 669 (Union) violated the NLRA when it sought to apply and enforce facially valid anti-double breasting...
View ArticleLabor Relations Update: New NLRB General Counsel Nominee Poised to Undo...
Senate Republicans recently confirmed William Emanuel, the second Trump nominee to the five-member National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”), giving the Board a Republican majority for the first...
View ArticleNew Labor Obligations Contained In USMCA Present Risks for Covered Employers
In effect since July 1, 2020, the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”). Although the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic largely...
View ArticleA Major Deal for the Minor League: California Bill Paves the Way for Historic...
Major changes are coming to the Minor League. In April, Major League Baseball (MLB) players and owners voted to ratify a historic collective bargaining agreement that, for the first time in history,...
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