The National Labor Relations Board has issued a call for interested parties to file briefs addressing the Board’s current standard on whether graduate student assistants are “employees” under the NLRA.
On January 11, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case that will decide whether public-sector employees can be forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment.
Ninety trade associations representing millions of employers sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on Friday asking that the persuader rulemaking be returned to the DOL and consolidated with a separate proposal.
Considered the last legislative feat of 2015, Congress approved a massive tax and spending package on Friday that includes some positive and negative provisions for employers.
After years in regulatory limbo, the Department of Labor’s final revisions to the so-called “persuader” rule have moved one step closer to publication.
Obscenities alone—even when viewed by an employer's customers—do not deprive employees engaged in protected concerted activity of the NLRA's protections.
The NLRB's recent decision in Lily Transportation Corp. highlights the potential impact of a finding that a follow-on service provider is a "successor" to a prior provider.
Following a series of congressional hearings on the NLRB's Browning-Ferris decision, A House committee voted on Wednesday to advance a bill that would effectively reverse the Board's action in that case.
A week after a House subcommittee held a hearing on the National Labor Relations Board's new joint employer standard, it was the Senate's turn to address the aftermath of the Board's Browning-Ferris decision.
