Many observers were quite surprised by the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s regional office in Chicago which allowed scholarship football players at Northwestern University to form a union. Interestingly, the ruling only applies to the 85 scholarship players on the team within the proposed bargaining unit and…
Read More…Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) can, in certain cases, override strict state laws on overtime, ruled a California court of appeals.
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Q: One of our employees complains all the time. Today we learned he started a Facebook page that says our company sucks. We have a policy prohibiting disparagement of our organization. Can we tell him if he doesn’t like it here, he can leave?
Read More…Q: We have a ‘no photography’ policy to protect our manufacturing process. I have recently read that this limitation may be against the law. Is that true?
Read More…Employer policies are still under fire by the Office of General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Under the NLRA, the primary risk of automatically requiring confidentiality in investigations is your potential liability for back pay if you terminate an employee for violating your confidentiality rule.
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An employee’s expletive-laden expressions of contempt for her employer on a private Facebook forum with current and former coworkers wasn’t protected concerted activity, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of the General Counsel.
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In this case a long term, union-represented employee bid on a job opening for which she was the senior bidder.
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A federal appeals court has invalidated a rule published by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in August 2011, which required all employers to post a notice informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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The President didn’t have the power to appoint three people to the National Labor Relations Board on January 4, 2012, ruled the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The court’s ruling throws serious doubt on the validity of recent Board decisions, many of which have been highly controversial.
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