The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the reinstatement of an employee who was let go for picket line behavior that included shouting racist comments toward African American replacement workers. The employer locked out their ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had no beef with the termination of employees who put up negative posters about their employer during a union organizing campaign. In MikLin Enterprises, Inc., employees at ten Twin Cities’ Jimmy John’s sandwich-shop ...
The building blocks of the Obama regulatory reform continue to fall as the Department of Labor (DOL) has just announced their intention to revoke the much maligned “persuader rule” that hampers employers seeking legal advice during union election ...
The term “Right-to-Work” is really just a shorthand term for “Right to work and be left alone by the labor union.” A number of state legislatures recently have passed “Right-to-Work” laws making it unlawful for unions ...
A United States District Court Judge in Texas has now issued a decision permanently blocking the Department of Labor’s (DOL) revised “persuader rule” under the Labor-Management Reporting Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As we previously reported, the DOL’s revisions ...
A new Advice Memorandum from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tells us that misclassifying employees as independent contractors may be treated as an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act. Although this ...
On March 24th, the U.S. Department of Labor published its controversial amendment to the so-called “persuader” rule. The DOL’s final version of revisions to the rule will be effective starting July 1, 2016, and purports ...
A Mankato man accused of sending racist messages to a Black Lives Matter Facebook page recently lost his job after his employer investigated the employee’s comments. As reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, employee Brad ...
