NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo Encourages Regions to Utilize More Significant...
In keeping with the momentum of her Office, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum yesterday to all Regional Offices advising them to request that the Board...
View ArticleHouse Committee Attempts to Secure “PRO Act” Changes to Labor Law Through...
As we have discussed in previous posts, the Protect the Right to Organize Act (“PRO Act”), which would drastically and fundamentally change the nature and scope of the National Labor Relations Act...
View ArticleD.C. Circuit Court Rules NLRB’s Access to Property Test is Arbitrary
General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, is already on her way to accomplishing one of the objectives she laid out in her recent Advice-Memorandum 21-04. In the GC’s...
View ArticleBREAKING: General Counsel Abruzzo Announces that College Athletes Are Employees
Yesterday, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a very significant memorandum on the status of college athletes as “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act. Statutory Rights of Players at...
View ArticleNYC Enacts Severance Pay Requirements for Displaced Hotel Workers
Effective as of October 5, 2021, Int. 2397-2021 requires operators of “transient hotels” (as defined by Section 12-10 of the New York City zoning resolutions) to pay their employees severance pay if:...
View ArticleWhile Democrats Whittle Down Pro-Labor Provisions Of Social Spending Bill,...
As we discussed here, members of the House Education and Labor Committee have been attempting to end-run the procedural hurdles that have prevented the Protect the Right to Organize Act (“PRO Act”)...
View ArticleNLRB, DOL, and EEOC Announce Joint Initiative to Combat Worker Retaliation
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), along with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced the creation of an interagency...
View ArticleBREAKING: NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo on Bargaining Obligations Under...
On November 10, 2021, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum outlining bargaining obligations under OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard to Protect Workers from Coronavirus (“ETS”)....
View ArticleBREAKING: The Department of Labor and The National Labor Relations Board...
On January 6, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that the two agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) detailing procedures on...
View ArticleNLRB General Counsel Announces Commitment to Inter-Agency Coordination
On February 7, 2022, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment issued a report recommending, among other things, increased coordination among agencies working on labor and...
View ArticleNLRB GC Seeks Dramatic Change to Employer’s Right to Speak to Employees About...
For decades, employers had been free to gather employees to discuss – in a non-coercive manner – the employer’s views on unionization, and had been free to share with employees what employees’ rights...
View ArticleUnion Representation Petitions Increase by Astonishing 57% in the First Half...
On April 6, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a press release recognizing the shockingly large surge in new union organizing. Specifically, during the first half...
View ArticleNLRB General Counsel Looks to Partner with the Federal Mediation and...
On April 27, 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released a memorandum to all NLRB field offices detailing and encouraging an extensive partnership with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation...
View ArticleGeneral Counsel Abruzzo Looks to Overturn Board Precedent Again: This Time,...
In an Advice Memorandum released on May 25, 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo laid out a blueprint for changes she’d like made to Board precedent concerning union representatives’ access to...
View ArticleNLRB Releases Spring Rulemaking Agenda Forecasting Changes To Joint Employer...
On June 21, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) released its rulemaking agenda for Spring 2022, indicating the Board is considering revisions to two significant and tumultuous topics...
View ArticleNLRB Pursues 10(j) Injunction and Bargaining Order Against Starbucks Based on...
On June 21, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a press release indicating that the Regional Director of Region 3 requested injunctive relief from a United States District Court on...
View ArticleNLRB General Counsel Abruzzo Issues Memo on Employer Surveillance in the...
On October 31, 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo (“GC Abruzzo”) issued a memorandum in which she pushed for zealous enforcement and Board adoption of a “new framework” to protect employees...
View ArticleJohnnie’s on the Spot; Board Reaffirms Standards for Employer Interrogations...
On the eve of the last day of Member Ring’s term, and in the third in a string of significant rulings by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) (which we reported on here and here)—with...
View ArticleIt’s Up To You New York, New York; NLRB Reinstates Worker-Friendly Standard...
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) capped off an extremely busy week, by issuing another precedent-reversing decision, on the last day of Republican Member John Ring’s 5-year term....
View ArticleBoard Rescinds Four Provisions to 2019 Election Rule Following Federal...
Thursday, the NLRB issued a notice to rescind four provisions from the Board’s Rules and Regulations contained in its Final Rule published in December 2019 (the “2019 rule”). The Board’s notice...
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