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- Third circuit limits RICO anti-union threat
- NYS indoor masking policy extended through February 1, 2022
- White house launches new website where Americans can request free covid-19 tests beginning January 19, 2022
- EBSA publishes new rules on pooled employer plans and annual reporting requirements
- Onward and upward Carlos Beato
- Ring out the old as NLRB invites more briefs to reconsider trump board decisions
- Dol kills t-1 at year end for 2022, lm-2 remains primary union report
- As the clock struck midnight: Three uniformed city unions make deals with the outgoing administration
- Tag team action: Federal agencies join forces to enforce workers’ rights
- Celebrating the life and legacy of rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
- The three AMICI – NLRB invites briefs to reconsider trump era standards for damages and organizing
- DOL settlement with amazon makes it easier for unions to organize
- Final rule on electronic disclosures saves time and money, says DOL
- Sixth circuit upholds osha large employer vaccination mandate, Dissolves fifth circuit stay nationwide
- New york city publishes guidance for sweeping covid-19 vaccine mandate effective december 27, 2021
- Eeoc issues new technical guidance for covid-19 as a disability
- New york state supreme court orders new york city to delay implementation of medicare health care plan switch until april 1
- New York State Super All Mask Or All Vax Mandate Begins
- U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Challenge To New York State Health Care Worker Vax Mandate
- Third Circuit Clarifies Procedures And Pitfalls In Action To Vacate A Labor Arbitration Award
- In A First, A Starbucks Shop Votes To Unionize
- New York City Council Passes Legislation Seeking To Prevent Bias In Automated Employment Decision Tools
- Stays In Louisiana And Georgia District Courts Stiruncertainty In The Ever-changing Landscape Of Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate Litigation
- Outgoing Mayor De Blasio Calls For First In-the-nation covid-19 Vaccine Mandate For Private Companies
- Hipaa And Privacy Barriers To personal Covid-19 Vaccination Information
- Regulatory Norms Face Challenges Now And In the Future Due To Vaccine Mandate Litigation
- Second Circuit Recognizes A “Church Of One” Exemption In NYC Covid Vaccination Case
- President Biden Boosts Pay For More Than 327,000 Workers To $15 Per Hour
- IRS Issues New Faqs Regarding Rehiring Retirees And In-Service Distributions
- NLRB Orders Second Union Election For Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama
- Osha Strikes Back – Petitions Sixth Circuit To Lift Fifth Circuit Stay Of Emergency Vaccination Mandate
- Eeoc Offers Guidance On Preventing Covid Related Retaliation
- After Cybersecurity, Dol Focuses On Cross-Selling
- New York State Passes Automatic Ira Law
- Thanksgiving Message
- Fifth Circuit Extends Stay Of Osha Mandatory Vaccination Standard, Cases Move To Sixth Circuit Now
- Duty To Bargain Not Stayed By Osha Rule Or Covid Litigation
- Chicago Police Union Scores Two Wins In Its Fight Against The Citywide Vaccine Mandate
- It Takes A Village: New York State Recognizes “siblings” In Its Coverage For Paid Family Leave
- Promises Made, Promises Kept – President Biden To Sign BI-Partisan, Labor Friendly $1.2 Trillion National Infrastructure Bill
- DOL Announces Additional Transition Relief For Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02
- EEOC Provides Covid Religious Exemption Safe Harbor Form
- Governor Hochul Signs Law That Requires NY Private Employers To Notify Workers Of Email & Telephone Monitoring
- Happy Veterans Day, Especially To All Those Who Served Our Country
- Scotus Declines To Stay Maine’s Must-Vaccinate Mandate Lacking Religious Exemption
- Red States Strike Back, Sue Biden Administration Over Vax Mandates
- United’s COVID Skies Unfriendly To The UnVaccinated
- Newly Emboldened Workers Turn October Into #STRIKETOBER
- Second Circuit Clears Path For Biden To Undo Trump Joint Employer Regulations
- Holding The Line: U.S. Supreme Courts Rejects Challenges To Qualified Immunity
- EEOC Updates Covid-19 Technical Assistance In Light Of Increased Employer Vaccination Mandates
- NLRB Appoints Five Regional Directors
- Department Of Labor Proposal Amends Investment Duties Regulation Under Erisa
- Second Circuit Emphatically Affirms Covid Mandates
- Albany State Supreme Court Upholds Court Covid Mandates
- Flash Point – First Amendment, Fair Representation And Rule Of Law Clash In Illinois Lawsuit
- Federal Judge Enjoins State Health Care Vax Mandate Lacking Religious Accommodation
- Summary Judgment Granted To Airline Over Nyc Paid Sick Leave Law
- Irs Issues Supplemental Guidance On Extension Of Cobra Election And Payment Deadlines
- Sotomayor Shuts Down Emergency Appeal: Nyc Doe Is Allowed To Enforce Its Vaccination Mandate
- District Council 37 Reaches A Deal With New York City Doe Regarding Its Vaccine Mandate
- The Nlrb Signals It May Revisit The Employee Status Issue For College Athletes
- Labor Community Mourns The Passing Of Hispanic Labor Leader Ed Vargas
- Covid-19 Vaccine Worker Mandates Across All Levels Of Government Cause Rush To Litigation
- Second Circuit Court Vacates Injunction Against Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate – New York City Department Of Education Mandate Goes Into Effect On October 1, 2021
- State Supreme Court Postpones Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate For Court Workers
- White House Releases Covid-19 Vaccine Guidance For Federal Contractors – Workers Must Be Vaccinated By December 8
- Biden Dol Issues Final Tip Theft Rule That Expands The Power To Fine Businesses
- Mental Health Parity Law Violations May Finally Carry Civil Penalties
- Covid Orders And Court Tros In Play As Legal Proceedings Mutate
- NLRB General Counsel Announces Intent To Seek “Complete Relief” In Remedies
- Evade Or Avoid Withdrawal Liability Need Only Be One Principal Purpose In A Transaction To Void It Says Third Circuit
- Administration Imposes Sweeping Vaccine Mandate On Federal Workers And Large Employers
- Unions And Tyson Foods Agree On Paid Sick Leave For COVID-19 Vaccinated Workers
- NY Hero Act: Takeaways From Governor Hochul’s Recent COVID-19 Designation
- Notice Of Expiration Of Cobra Premium Assistance
- Warning! The “Key To NYC” Program Has Turned To Enforcement
- Union Fails Standing In Covid Protection Litigation
- Third Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Deference To Arbitration
- Surcharges In The Time Of The Covid-19
- Federal Unemployment Benefits Expire For 7.5 Million Americans
- Remembering 9/11
- Dc Circuit Bars Trump Board Access Rule As Arbitrary
- The Board’s Rx For Relief In Unfair Labor Practice Cases May Soon Go Extra Strength
- Chicago Afl-Cio Opposes Vaccine Mandates
- Second Circuit Approves Trump Board’s “Contract Coverage” Standard Easing Unilateral Employer Changes
- Third Circuit Revives Class Action Interpreting Userra In Favor Of Servicemembers
- Afl-Cio Elects Liz Shuler President – Shattering Labor’s Glass Ceiling
- Nyc Requires Individuals To Display Proof Of Vaccination To Participate In Certain Indoor Activities
- Board General Counsel Issues Memorandum Detailing Priorities Including A Roadmap To Undo Many Trump Era Cases
- Irs Issues Supplemental Guidance On Cobra Premium Assistance
- While You Were Looking Elsewhere, Scotus May Have Just Upheld Mandatory Vaccinations
- Mayor De Blasio Signs Labor Peace Agreement Legislation For Human Services Contractors
- Osha Issues New Covid-19 Guidance
- NLRB Allows the Rwdsu To Take Another Swing At Amazon
- National Infrastructure Bill Closer To Reality After United States Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill
- Nyc Law Regulating Use And Collection of Customer Biometric Information In Effect, Along With Millions Of Dollars In Potential Liability
- Court Of Appeals Strikes Down Trump Board Secondary Picketing Decision As A Stretch Too Far
- Singing A Different Time: NLRB Acting General Counsel Reverses Course On GAG Orders
- Governor Cuomo Signs HERO Act Offering Greater Workplace Covid Protection
- National Labor Relations Board Defers President Biden’s General Counsel Appointment to the Courts
- Biden Administration Cancels Trump Era Gig-Worker Rule
- Teamsters Prevail in Lawsuit Challenging California’s Abc Classification Law for Independent Contractors
- New Pot Law in New York Creates Legal Ambiguities for Workers
- New York Courts Dismiss Defamation Claims By Alleged Sexual Harassers
- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Unionization Efforts Continue With Mixed Results
- A Closer Look At The Multiemployer Pension Plan Relief Under Arpa
- Right And Wrong Along A Black And Blue Line
- SDNY Invalidates Trump Campaign Non-Disclosure And Non-Disparagement Contract Provisions
- Continuation Of Cobra Subsidies – Employers Scramble To Apprise Workers
- Stop The Steal: Department Of Labor Issues Guidance To Halt Fraudlent Unemployment Insurance Payments
- Unions Do Not Find A Sweet Home In Alabama
- New York State Budget Includes First Of Its Kind Renewable Energy Job Standards
- Biden Department Of Labor Ends Trump Era Rule Limiting Double Damages In Wage Cases
- Biden Nominates New Head To Lead Osha
- Dol Issues Cobra Premium Assistance Model Notices
- Jersey Courts Strike Down State Statute Prohibting Employment Discrimination Claims Going to Arbitration
- Play Ball – Sdny Throws out Umpire Claiming Title Vii Foul
- Court Grants Amazon Employee’s Request to Add a New Wage And Hour Claim for Pre-shift Covid-19 Related Screenings
- U.S. District Court Rules Hospital Lawfully Terminated Pregnant Employee Refusing Flu Shot
- Senate Passes Extension To Paycheck Protection Program – Deadline Now May 31, 2021
- Department Of Labor Presents New Rule For Tipped Wages After Calling Pause On Trump Era Proposed Rule
- Garden State Guidance – New Jersey Issues Vaccination Rules
- Third Circuit Upholds Discharge Of Bny Mellon Employee For Social Media Post Praising Violence
- Second Circuit: Employment Agreement Arbitration Clause Does Not Extend To Erisa Third-party Plan Fiduciary
- One Year Into Covid-19 Pandemic Union Wage Increases Are Sluggish
- Reminder – New Round Of Paycheck Protection Program Funds Available – Unions And Some Employee Benefit Plans May Be Eligible – Deadline March 31, 2021
- United States Senate Confirms Boston Mayor Marty Walsh As Secretary Of Labor
- Reminder – New Round Of Paycheck Protection Program Funds Available – Unions And Some Employee Benefit Plans May Be Eligible – Deadline March 31, 2021
- Osha Inspections And Nys Leave Aim To Stem Covid-19
- Appellate Court Approves Mandatory Retrement For New York State Judges
- Original Sin – J & J Vaccine Variant Raises Religious Objection
- Tale Of Two Felons
- Right To Work Laws – The Battle Continues In The States
- The “Fight For Fifteen” Rages On: New Study Shows There Is No Monster Under The Bed
- U.S. District Judge Broadly Answers How Broad Can Labor Arbitration Go?
- United States Supreme Court Rejects Amazon Driver’s Last Mile Arbitration Dispute
- Biden Department Of Labor Renews Focus On Wage Enforcement For Government Contractors
- Biden Labor Department Extends Jobless Benefits To Workers Refusing Unsafe Work
- Biden Eliminates Trump Era Apprenticeship Program
- When Is CBS Not CBS? When It Is Not A Single-Employer
- Biden Administration At EEOC Continues Dismantling Trump ERA Rules
- Department Of Labor Reverses Trump GIG Worker Guidance
- DC Circuit Reminds NLRB Who’s Boss
- Amazon vs. Wonder Woman-Pressure Mounts in Battle Over Workers’ RightsWORKERS’ RIGHTS
- Bloomberg Not “Employer” Under Nyc Human Rights Law
- The Democratically-Controlled Congress Advances President Biden’s Pro-Worker Legislation
- Breaking News-Biden Nominates Abruzzo As Nlrb General Counsel, But Beware Robb’s Revenge
- Democratic Majorities in the U.S. Senate and House Of Representatives Introduce National Paid Family and Medical Leave
- For next Seven Weeks Workers in Alabama Will Vote on Whether to Become the First Amazon American Workers to Unionize
- Timing Is Everything in Two Second Circuit Decisions
- Biden’s Acting General Counsel OHR Brings Immediate Change To NLRB
- Trump Board Panel Protects Wildcat Strikers This Time, Notes Possible Change In Future Cases
- Biden Administration Orders Broader Bargaining And Protections For Federal Workers
- Post-Covid-19 Emerging Issues: New Proposed Changes To Workplace Privacy Laws
- Decisive Biden Administration Actions Immediately Impact Labor And Employment
- New York State Building And Trades Council Endorses State Legislation Designed To Protect Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic
- Other New Governmental Measures Undertaken To Implement Covid-19 Workplace Safety Standards
- Wishing Success To Our New President And Vice President
- As Federal Covid-19 Paid Sick Leave Ends, New York Paid Sick Leave Steps In
- Departing Trump Eeoc Releases Final Rule On ‘conciliating’ Bias Claims
- 2021 Cola Increases For Dollar Limitations On Qualified Retirement Plans
- Qualified Retirement Plan Limits
- Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Challenge To New Nassau County Superior Officers’ Labor Contract Dismissed
- New York City Adds Just Cause Protection For Fast Food Workers
- In Big Win For Building Trades, Biden Nominates Marty Walsh For Labor Secretary
- Trump Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on Independent Contractor Status
- Sag-aftra Health Plan Facing Legal Challenges Due To “Draconian” Benefits Cuts
- Renowned Hotel Compelled To Proceed To Arbitration Regarding Fund Contribution Dispute
- Change And Independent Monitor Come To The UAW
- Lame Duck Trump Administration Rushes Rules, Rulings, And Retribution In Eleventh Hour
- No Way You Stay Free Speech – U.S. District Court Enjoins Anti-diversity Order
- Covid-19 Vaccinations-staying Healthy, And Immune from Discrimination Law Liability
- Second Circuit Cabins Fiduciary Liability For Service Providers Acting under Contract
- Second Circuit Reaffirms Deference to Labor Arbitration
- Machinists Name New General Counsel
- Merry Christmas!
- End Of Year Reminders And New Changes For 2021
- Trump EEOC Offers “pass Jail” Cards To Employers
- PBGC Says That Multiemployer Program Projected To Be Insolvent In FY 2026; Single-employer Program Improves
- Happy Chanukah
- For God And Country-EEOC Issues Updated Compliance Manual On Religious Discrimination
- Spate Of Litigation Alleges New Causes Of Action To Combat Unsafe Working Conditions Related To Covid-19
- Noelia E. Hurtado Joins Pitta LLP
- Grapes Of Wrath? Scotus To Review Union Access To Farm Workers
- First Circuit Court Of Appeals Places Limits On Qualified Immunity Doctrine
- EEOC Ending Nearly Half Century Old Case Against Iron Workers Local 580
- Public Sector Unions Lose FED Challenge to Benefit Cuts
- NLRB Tells Paving Co. IT can’t Shift Union Member Work Without Bargaining
- OSHA Says that Cloth Masks are not PPE
- Stephen Mc Quade Joins Pitta LLP
- Thanksgiving Message
- D.C. Circuit Subjects Board Unit Determinations To Strict Scrutiny, Invalidating Two Elections Won By Union
- New Jersey And California Take Polar Opposite Paths On Gig Economy Law
- Bruce Cooper Retiring From Pitta LLP
- Congratulations To Joe Biden And Kamala Harris – What Labor, Employees And Employers May Now Expect
- DC District Court Upholds City Law Cutting Police CBA Disciplinary Protections
- US Doj Asks Second Circuit To Restore Trump Administration’s Joint-employer Test
- Veteran’s Day 2020
- Delay In Presidential Election Results Leaves Legislation And Policy Decisions In Limbo
- National Labor Relations Board Will Determine The Fate Of “The Rat”
- Employers Sue To Prevent New Jersey’s New Severance Law From Taking Effect
- Appointee Resigns Over Trump’s Cancellation Of Civil Service Job Protections
- Comcast And Other Cable Contractor Agree To Pay $1.85 Million To Workers For Failing To Pay Minimum Wage And Overtime
- Federal Court Rejects Nlrb Bid To Strike Down Oregon Anti-captive Audience Law
- Trump Threatens Contractors On Anti-bias Training – OFCCP Seeks Support By Dec. 1, 2020 – Business And Nonprofits Push Back
- Scotus Signals Interest In Hearing Erisa Case
- Osha Debunks N95 Misinformation And Declares The Masks Very Effective Against Covid-19
- Senate Majority Confirms Justice Barrett To Scotus
- New York’s Election Day Rules
- NLRB Continues To Halt Vote By Mail Elections
- NLRB Polices Workplace Etiquette
- PBGC Premium Increase For Multiemployer Plans
- Fifth Circuit Joins The Sixth Circuit In Applying The “Salary Basis” Test To Determine Whether A Worker Is Overtime Exempt
- Democrats Continue Attack On Dol’s Gig Worker Proposal
- Trump Dol Faces Backlash Over Proposal To Limit Proxy Voting Power
- Office Of Labor-Management Standards Solicits Comments For New Lm-2 Form
- U.S. DOL Proposes Amendments To LM-2 Forms Resulting In Heavier Burdens On Unions
- U.S. District Court Sends Withdrawal Liability Acceleration Case To Arbitrator
- De Blasio Signs Three Bills To Protect Hotel Workers, Small Businesses, And Employee Sick Leave
- Third Circuit Backs Union Right To Production Of Purchase agreement In Parts Relevant To Collective Bargaining
- NLRB Calls Halt To A Mail-ballot Union Election
- House Issued And NLRB Rejected Subpoenas To Explore NLRB Members’ Conflicts
- America Mourns The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- New York State Sick Leave Law Changes To Go Into Effect September 30, 2020
- So You Thought Your Discussions With Counsel Were Privileged? Think Again
- NJ Federal Court Case May Impact Whether Mandatory COVID-19 Health Screenings Are Compensable Under Wage And Hour Laws
- Third Circuit Holds That Courts And Not Arbitrators Decide Whether Agreement To Arbitrate Exists, Even If Agreement Commits That Question To Arbitrator
- Third Circuit, By 2:1 Decision, Rejects “CLAWBACK” Of Union Dues
- The Latest Covid Consequence: Back To Work, Back To Litigation
- NLRB Advises Employers How To Avoid Unions Under Cloak Of Covid
- Board General Counsel Directs Regions To Issue Complaints Against Card Check Neutrality Agreements And Related Organizing
- Federal Court Excises Parts Of Trump’s Proposed Changes To Joint Employer Rule
- Covid Provides No Pause Of Nys October 9 Sexual Harassment Training Deadline
- Second Circuit Grants Request For Stay In 50A Case
- Fema Approves NY Application To Provide Additional Unemployment Payments To New Yorkers
- California Federal Court Rules That Amazon Delivery Drivers Can Avoid Arbitration
- NLRB Covid Advice Memos Leave Labor Coughing, Short Of Breath And Needing Ventilators
- Court Rules Cuny Can Take “cares” Money While Adjuncts Take Walking Papers
- Federal Court Enjoins Trump’s Anti–LGBTQ Rules
- Law Enforcement Unions File Lawsuit Challenging NYC “diaphragm Law”
- California Court Orders Uber And LYFT To Reclassify Drivers As Employees
- Allegedly Funny, Frightened And Star-struck Arbitrator Not Evidently Partial In Favor Of Uber
- New York Federal Court Voids Restrictions On Paid Leave For Workers Affected By Covid-19
- New Osha Guidance: Masks Won’t Hurt You
- Senate Confirms Lauren Mcferran As Sole Democrat On The Nlrb
- Trump Board Proposes To Turn Excelsior Rule Inside Out
- Citing Scotus In Bostock, Tenth Circuit Leads Federal Courts In Recognizing Sex Plus Age Discrimination Claims
- Must Employees Be Paid For Time Spent Undergoing Covid-19 Screening Procedures?
- Managing The Coronavirus For New York State Employers/Employees
- Retirement Plan Reform: The Secure Act
- Eighteen Attorneys General Sue To Block Long Awaited Joint Employer Rule
- Republican Only Nlrb Final Joint Employer Rule Tightens Standard, Eliminates Obama-era Precedent
- Appeals Court Upholds Ban On Wage Inquiry And Reliance
- Nyc Commission On Human Rights Settles With Prada Over Racist Imagery And Imposes First Of Its Kind Restorative Justice Measures
- Dems Pro Labor Bill Warrants Union Support, Caution, And Self-reliance
- TWU & IAM Negotiate Top Flight Joint Agreements For Their Members Employed By American Airlines
- District Of Columbia Circuit Court Again Rejects NLRB’S Jurisdiction Over Religious School Faculty
- Striking Workers May Now Obtain Unemployment Benefits After Three Weeks’ Loss Of Employment
- Second Circuit Upholds Arbitrator Award Reducing Employer Withdrawal Liability Assessment
- NRLB To Countrywide Financial : Illegal Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Under Boeing Standard
- Governor Cuomo Proposes Legislation Further Protecting Transit Workers From Harassment And Assault
- New York State Budget Proposal Includes Provision To Provide Unions Access To Orientations For New Employees
- NLRB Applies Retroactive Manifest Injustice Standard To Claw Back Union Representation
- Censoring Employees’ Discussions Of Workplace Investigations Not A Violation Of Workers’ Rights, Says NLRB
- National Labor Relations Board To Employers – You Can Restrict Your Employees’ Use Of E-mails
- Federal Court Stays Implementation Of Long Sought New York State Farm Labor Law
- NLRB Issues Final Rule Undercutting Reforms In Representation Case Procedures
- U.S. Department Of Labor Proposal Expands Financial Disclosure And Reporting Requirements To Public Sector Labor Unions
- Layoff Of Non-Union Members In Bargaining Unit Not Subject To First Amendment Strict Scrutiny Protection
- D.N.J. Court Faces In Two Directions Post Janus: Upholds Union But Pans Legislation
- NLRB Region 2 Welcomes “New” Regional Attorney
- New Rules On Overtime Eligibility Take Effect January 1, 2020
- NLRB Says To Defer To Arbitrators In Some “Unilateral Change” Cases
- PBGC FY2019 Annual Report: Good News And Bad News
- Thanksgiving Message
- Second Circuit Affirms NLRB Ruling Protecting Fired Servers’ Emails As Protected Concerted Activity
- NI Federal District Court Clips Care One RICO Claim Against SEIU
- A Week Late And Plenty Of Dollars Short
- A Veterans Day Message Good All Year
- If You Missed The Deadline, This May Be Your Last Chance Before The Lawsuit
- And Don’t Forget Election Day Tuesday November 5 New Leave Time Rules
- Irs Issues Final Hardship Distribution Rules
- Seventh Circuit Ruling: Statute Of Limitations On Withdrawal Liability Runs From The Acceleration Date
- Nlrb Sidesteps Itself, Using Rulemaking To Reverse Controversial Graduate Student Rule
- State Judge Freezes Alaska’s Attempt To Extend Janus, For Now
- Trump Nlrb Rules That Nlra Protects Employer Right To Misclassify Workers As Independent Contractors
- Nyc Issues Guidance To Protect Against Discrimination On The Basis Of Immigration And National Origin
- Dol Final Rule Raises Ot Exemption And “highly Compensated Worker” Thresholds
- Nlrb Further Limits Union Organizing access, Reversing Decades Old Precedent
- The Nlrb Makes It Easier For employers To Make Unilateral Changes
- Split Dc Circuit Enforces Obama Board “perfectly Clear Successor” Rule, Flashing “slow” For Expected Trump Board Reversal
- Tennis Coach Wins Rematch on Dismissed Lawsuit for Discriminatory Discharge Over Alleged Sexual Harassment
- Nlrb Broadly Prohibits Non-Employee Leafleting, Reversing Obama Era Board
- Nlrb Limits Class Waivers
- Harasser time is up in New York State
- Wright line going wrong
- New york state human rights law expanded:Discrimination based on natural hairstyles and religious attire and facial hair now prohibited
- Complete Preemption Prevails To Defeat NYS And NYC Discrimination Claims
- Court Of Appeals Rebuffs Federal Employee Unions’ Lawsuit Challenging Trump Executive Orders
- National Mediation Board Seeks To Streamline Procedure For Decertification Under Railway Labor Act
- Federal Law Preempts New York Statute Banning Mandatory Arbitration Of Sexual Harassment Claims
- Not Only Does Scabby The Rat Symbolize Freedom To Organize – Judge Rules That Inflating Rodent During Labor Protest Is Constitutionally Protected
- New York Moves To Close The Wage Gap
- New York Employees May Soon Be Able To “Lien” On Their Employer’s Property For Wage And Hour Violations
- Jettisoning Precedent, NLRB Prescribes How to Withdraw Union Recognition at Contract End Without Election
- Business Not Usual In NY State
- New York Now Requires Paid Leave For Voting
- FY 2018 EBSA Enforcement Statistics
- NLRB Invites Employers To Post “No Union Allowed” In Public Places
- Judge Balks At Umpire’s Claim Of Union Privilege
- Getting Wright Line Right
- New Jersey: First State In Nation To Require Panic Buttons To Protect Hotel Workers From Harassment
- Supreme Court Limits A Procedural Defense Available To Employers In Job Discrimination Lawsuits
- Rats, Cats, And Snakes
- Ring And Kaplan Ride To Rescue Of Threatening Employer; Mcferran Dissents
- NLRB’S General Counsel’s Advice Memo: Uber Drivers Cannot Unionize
- Farmers’ Rights To Organize Sprout Into Fruition
- Workers Win Two When U. S. Supreme Court Denies Review Of Public Sector First Amendment Cases
- Court Enforces NLRB Order Of Prescribed Bargaining Times And Information
- Stop [striking] & [resume] Shop[ping]
- State courts join in upholding union exclusive bargaining rights post janus
- NLRB successorship pendulum swings back towards employers
- Second circuit panel hobbles ADA plaintiffs by replacing “mixed motive” with restrictive “but for” standard
- New York City Human Rights Commission Rolls out Online Anti-sexual Harassment Training
- NLRB Issues Additional Advice regarding Duty Of Fair Representation
- City Pension Actuary Miscalculates By millions, Corrections Scheduled Through 2022
- Why Plan Drug Costs Can Rise As Rebates Do Too
- Janus II Rebuffed – Union Not Liable For Pre-Janus I Damages
- New Jersey Enacts New Paid Family Leave Law
- NLRB Veers Hard Right In Applying Law To Curtail Union Effectiveness
- More Overtime, Please! DOL Proposes New Overtime Rule
- Ninth Circuit Rules Janus Does Not Bar Union’s Exclusive Representation Rights
- Beck Revisited – NLRB Limits Union Chargeable Expenses
- When Things Get Hairy: NYC Bans Discrimination Based On Hair
- NLRB To Review 2016 Standard Regarding Its Jurisdiction Over Charter Schools
- Labor Divided – New Battlefront: Hudson Yards
- Appellate Court Rules That Police Body Camera Video May Be Publicly Disclosed
- Rats! Robbed Again? Scabby Caged In Seventh Circuit For Now
- Maintenance Of Checkoff Provision May Be Maintained
- SCOTUS Holds “Wholly Groundless” Exception To Arbitrability Wholly Groundless
- Building Trades Must Wrestle With Hudson Yards Developer In State Court Because Tort Claims Not Preempted By Federal Law
- U.S. Department Of Education’s Proposed Title IX Regulations Seek To Protect Sexual Harassment Complainants And At The Same Time Give Respondents A Fair Process
- Two “Mother’s Day” Laws Passed To Protect Nursing Mothers In The Workplace
- National Labor Relations Board Reverses Independent Contractor Rule
- Me-Too Means You-Too: Potential Union Liability For Steward Sexual Harassment
- Citing “Privacy,” OSHA Eliminates Record Keeping Requirements
- Private Sector Union Membership Slips
- Browning-Ferris Redux Sows Confusion – D.C. Circuit Upholds Obama Board Joint Employer Rule But Remands To Trump Board For Application
- NFL Boots Security Consultant Statutory Claims To Arbitration
- To “Protect” Neutrals, Trump Board Requires Union Picketing To Promise Compliance With Law
- Board Overrides Dismissal Of Decert Petition Despite ALJ Findings Of Unfair Labor Practices
- Police Officer Personnel Records Not Subject To Disclosure Under Freedom Of Information Law
- National Labor Relations Board Seeks To Reduce Timeline In Case-Handling
- NLRB And NMB May Be Parting At Jurisdictional Crossroads Over Air And Rail Carrier Contractors
- 23-and-she Gina Discrimination Claim Dismissed Against State Employers
- Round One In “Janus II” Goes To Unions – No Retroactive Application Says Federal District Court
- Breaking News – IRS Proposes To Expand Plan Hardship Distribution Rules
- New Second Circuit Decision Ensures Arbitral Clarity Over Finality