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Salon
April 19, 2018
The amended NLRB complaint comes as Tesla, and its CEO Elon Musk, are being criticized for failing to live up to their production goals. After Tesla shares dropped last month, its engineering chief Doug Field sent an email to staff attacking people who doubted Musk's vision. “I find that personally insulting,Ãâà...
Law360
April 19, 2018
Law360 (April 18, 2018, 7:25 PM EDT) -- More than 6,000 labor groups, businesses and workers responded to the National Labor Relations Board's call for feedback on whether and how to revise a controversial Obama-era rule aimed at streamlining the union election process ahead of a twice-extended comment deadlineÃâà...
Politico
April 19, 2018
The agency is the National Labor Relations Board, created in 1935 to promote collective bargaining and adjudicate disputes between businesses and workers. An independent agency insulated — in theory — from partisan politics, the NLRB under President Donald Trump is consumed to the point ofÃâà...
Law360
April 18, 2018
Law360 (April 17, 2018, 4:28 PM EDT) -- A split National Labor Relations Board panel voted Monday to review a regional director's decision to exclude from a proposed union of Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc. workers four clinics in Colorado and its operations in New Mexico and Nevada following the employer'sÃâà...
HR Dive
April 11, 2018
UPDATE: John Ring, confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday, will join the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as its chairman, the White House announced late Thursday. He will replace Marvin Kaplan, whom Trump tapped to lead less than four months ago after the departure of Philip Miscimarra.
Becker's Hospital Review
April 3, 2018
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint and notice of hearing in relation to allegations filed by nurses at Upper Peninsula Health ... Duke LifePoint said in a statement to Becker's Hospital Review it is aware of the NLRB's complaint and notice of hearing, as well as the MNA's allegations onÃâà...
The National Law Review
April 3, 2018
Few developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in recent years caused as much consternation for employers as the agency's 2015 “ambush election rule.” That rule significantly truncated the amount of time a company has to express its opinion to its workforce on potential unionization byÃâà...
QSR magazine
April 3, 2018
In what those of us that support the restaurant industry hope is just a temporary—but stinging—setback, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently vacated its December ruling that kept franchisors and franchisees from having to deal with an unworkable and expansive legal test for determining whether an entityÃâà...
Automotive News (blog)
April 2, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO -- The National Labor Relations Board found merit to complaints levied by Tesla factory workers against the automaker, the UAW said Monday, and the case has been scheduled to go before a judge in June. The filing is an updated version of one initially posted in August, which claimedÃâà...
Compliance Week (blog)
March 22, 2018
On March 20, McDonald's USA and its franchisees asked Administrative Law Judge Lauren Esposito to approve proposed settlement agreements negotiated for the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. The crux of the case is a battle over the parameters of “joint employer” status andÃâà...
Law360
March 22, 2018
Law360 (March 21, 2018, 8:04 PM EDT) -- Allegations that National Labor Relations Board members are biased against unions or employers are nothing new and usually don't gain much traction, but the recent withdrawal of a landmark ruling because of perceived conflicts stemming from NLRB member Bill Emanuel'sÃâà...
Pittsburgh Business Times
March 22, 2018
Post-Gazette management violated labor law, NLRB rules ... The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board determined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette violated federal law in refusing to pay a health care cost increase, according to a news release from the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh. The laborÃâà...
Law360
March 21, 2018
Law360 (March 20, 2018, 9:16 PM EDT) -- Objectors to the National Labor Relations Board general counsel's proposed settlement of the yearslong joint employer battle against McDonald's have criticized the agency for letting the fast-food giant off the hook — and key terms of the deal have yet to emerge — but laborÃâà...
HR Dive
March 21, 2018
McDonald's and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have reached an agreement in a much-watched "joint employer" lawsuit, Nation's Restaurant News (NRN) reports. The settlement terms weren't disclosed, but the fast-food company maintains that it is not, and never was, a joint employer of itsÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
The case, being tried before a special court of the National Labor Relations Board, was brought during the Obama administration, when the board was under Democratic control. Since President Trump's election, Republican members have regained a majority, steering the board away from a pro-laborÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2018
McDonald's and NLRB want to halt a case that could make firms more liable for franchisees' wrongdoing ... McDonald's Corp. and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board asked an agency judge to approve the settlement of a long-running workplace-retaliation case, cutting short a trial that could lead toÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 14, 2018
Democrats and union allies have been transparent in their goal to block or delay any decisions by the Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), as part of an effort to preserve the pro-union rulings by the Obama-era Board. As I've detailed in previous posts (here and here), the NLRB InspectorÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
March 12, 2018
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is under increasing scrutiny for its rash judgement to vacate its Hy-Brand decision, which restored the Board's previous standard for what constitutes “joint employment,” under federal labor law, as well as for the Inspector General's report that ignited this needlessÃâà...
National Right to Work Foundation (blog)
March 6, 2018
At the Federalist Society blog, National Right to Work Foundation Vice President and Legal Director Raymond J. LaJeunesse has a new commentary discussing the extreme anti-worker freedom record of Barack Obama appointee Mark Gaston Pearce, who still sits on the National Labor Relations Board:.
Mondaq News Alerts
March 6, 2018
Ogletree Deakins' Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the winter 2018 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. In the issue, we examine how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is moving forward after a slow start during the Trump administration's firstÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 5, 2018
The Trump administration is looking to undermine the fundamental mission of the National Labor Relations Board, according to several employee and outside groups, who are objecting to cuts and a proposed reorganization of the agency. Proposals from NLRB officials appointed by President Trump wouldÃâà...
The National Law Review
March 5, 2018
The Washington Post will have to defend allegations regarding its social media policy. Bloomberg BNA is reporting that Region 5 (Baltimore) of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against the media company regarding its implementation of a social media policy. According toÃâà...
The National Law Review
March 5, 2018
On February 26, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued an Order vacating its recent decision on the issue of joint-employer in Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors & Brandt Construction Co., 365 NLRB No. 156 (2017). The 3-0 decision by the NLRB (in which Member William Emanuel did notÃâà...
India West
March 4, 2018
A lawsuit filed by a former Google engineer and led by Indian American attorney Harmeet Dhillon was denied by the National Labor Relations Board. James Damore filed a complaint in 2017 against his former employer saying it wasn't within its rights to terminate him after a memo he wrote about theÃâà...
Labor Relations Update
March 2, 2018
The past few weeks on the Labor Board front have been fairly routine, save for, of course, the high drama associated with the NLRB reversing its own decision (lest anyone think this is a super significant development, remember that this agency had scores of decisions overturned for lacking a properÃâà...
Fulton Sun
March 1, 2018
AUXVASSE — A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer has recommended in favor of the UFCW Local 655 union, but the battle over the vote at Dollar General's Auxvasse location isn't over. Four of six employees at the location voted Dec. 8 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers LocalÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 1, 2018
Senate Democrats put business lawyer John Ring, President Trump's nominee for an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board, on notice Thursday that they would go after him for any potential conflicts of interest while he serves on the board. Democrats at a Health, Education Labor and PensionsÃâà...
Inc.com
February 20, 2018
What the NLRB didn't look at was whether Damore's statements that women are "more prone to "neuroticism"--resulting in women experiencing higher anxiety and exhibiting lower tolerance for stress"--and that "men demonstrate greater variance in IQ than women" are actually true. While these are not theÃâà...
TechCrunch
February 16, 2018
Citing similar precedents, the National Labor Relations Board counsel deemed parts of the memo “so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive” as to shed their status as protected speech in the workplace. The NLRB memo, issued on January 16 and published publicly yesterday, does not constitute an officialÃâà...
In These Times
December 31, 1999
Tesla factory workers have been trying for months to win restitution for the company's alleged union-busting and harassment. Now, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint against the company appears to be making strides. Last August, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla after findingÃâà...
UpperMichigansSource.com
December 31, 1999
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against Duke LifePoint on Monday, March 26, regarding three Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges filed by the Michigan Nurses Association on behalf of nurses at U.P. Health System-Marquette. According to theÃâà...
The National Law Review
December 31, 1999
Bloomberg BNA is reporting that the National Labor Relations Board Professional Association – the union who represents National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) employees – has sent letters to congressional members expressing concern over a planned “hiring freeze” at the agency. According to theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
The National Labor Relations Board threw out its most important ruling of 2017 — a 3-2 victory for major U.S. corporations-following an internal agency report that found that a potential conflict-of-interest had tainted the vote. The December ruling, called Hy-Brand, had reversed a controversial Obama-eraÃâà...
