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 ...
Like many companies, Whole Foods Markets had a policy banning employees from taking photos, videos, or other recordings in the workplace. However, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) clicked the “pause” button, striking down ...
Every day people take to social media to vent frustrations with daily life. But what happens when employees use social media to blow off steam about their employer? This was the question that the Second ...
Maybe so, according to the latest pronouncement of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186 (Aug. 27, 2015), the NLRB dramatically expanded their definition of “joint ...
Today, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) issued a unanimous decision dismissing the election petition filed by scholarship football players at Northwestern University. The Board punted on the issue of whether these players are ...
I Never Promised You a Weingarten If you are a unionized employer, you almost certainly know that your employees have something called “Weingarten” rights, meaning that unionized employees may request (and must then receive) union ...
