Vigilant Blog

A revised regulation from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will require employers to file electronic reports detailing all activities in which they use a consultant to persuade employees regarding their rights to organize and bargain collectively. The reports will be publicly accessible online, and must include specific information about the projects, organizations, people, and…

In a ground-breaking decision, the National Labor Relations Board expanded its definition of a “joint employer” and ruled that temporary staffing agency workers had the right to form a union and bargain not only with their agency employer but also with their on-site client employer. In this case, a recycling company used its own union-represented…

An employer acted illegally when it ordered a worker to remove from his cubicle a copy of a disciplinary warning that he had received, ruled the National Labor Relations Board. The employee had been written up for being insubordinate when he refused to put away his tablet during a meeting. He filed a grievance over…

The National Labor Relations Board decided yesterday that if an employer gives employees access to its email system in the course of their work, those employees are entitled to use their email to band together to discuss their wages, hours, and working conditions during non-working time. In other words, just as employees have historically been…

The President recently issued an executive order to require certain federal contractors to disclose labor law violations, provide paycheck notices to employees, and refrain from requiring nonunion employees to sign certain pre-dispute arbitration clauses. The order won’t take effect until regulations are proposed and finalized, however. Executive Order 13673 (Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces) includes…