By Heather Lothrop Currently, only New York State has legislation that requires domestic workers to be given meal breaks, paid for overtime, paid rest days, and protection against racial and sexual harassment. While these rights are expected in most professions, domestic workers often do not receive these protections from their employers. The employers are not … Continue reading
By Jennifer Girard Boeing’s recently opened plant in North Charleston, South Carolina is being targeted by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to unionize its workers. But IAM faces an uphill battle. The South Carolina plant, Boeing’s second U.S. final assembly line, opened in July 2011 amidst controversy. In March 2010, the … Continue reading
By Eileen Lohmann On November 6, the people of the United States will choose between two fundamentally different presidential candidates, and in an economic climate in which the rate of unemployment is 7.8 percent, each candidate has offered his own solution to create jobs and grow the economy. President Barack Obama’s plan to revitalize the … Continue reading
True Value should take back the 2011 Supplier of the Year Award it gave North American Salt, says United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo Gerard, because North American operates a salt mine in Louisiana that has received safety and health citations for serious violations and has been shut down temporarily by the Mine Safety and Health … Continue reading
As discussed in previous postings on this site, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is devoting a significant amount of attention to “concerted activity” under Section 7 of the NLRA, and is aggressively working to expand the “concerted activity” definition. According to two recent NLRB decisions, requiring an employee to sign an “at-will” acknowledgement form … Continue reading
Over the past few months, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been hard at work interpreting the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) commenting on everything from social media policies to arbitration agreements. Recently, the NLRB undertook a major educational effort to educate employees about their rights under the NLRA and vowing to fight for … Continue reading
Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held in D.R. Horton that a class action waiver that required, as a condition of employment , the employee to waive his rights to class-action litigation while simultaneously waiving his rights to class-action arbitration was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB opined … Continue reading
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) recently issued administrative rulings on seven cases pertaining to employer policies governing employee use of social media, whereby it held that six of the seven policies violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). On May 30, 2012, the Board’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Salomon, issued his third … Continue reading
A federal judge recently ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) rule designed to expedite union elections is invalid since the rule was not approved by a quorum of the Board. In late December, the NLRB published a new rule that changed the procedures for private sector union elections by, among … Continue reading
Judge David Norton of the U.S. District Court of South Carolina ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) exceeded its congressional authority when it issued a rule that required employers to post notices that detail workers’ right to unionize, and penalized non-compliant employers. The NLRB rule requires employers to post an 11×17 inch notice … Continue reading
