Since August 2021, three of the five members of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) have been appointed by Democratic presidents, including two members appointed by President Biden. Earlier this year, the Democratic majority announced in Stericyle, Inc., 371 NLRB No. 48 (Jan. 6, 2022), that it was requesting briefing on whether
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Out with the Old, in with the New: Employers Should Expect Changes Under a Biden Administration
By Melissa Healy & John Dudrey on
Posted in COVID-19, Employee Handbooks, Employer Policies, Labor, Obama Board, Trump Board, Updates, wage and hour
In case you missed it (did anyone miss it?), President Joe Biden was sworn into office yesterday. Although workplace issues are hardly the only pressing item on the new President’s agenda, employers should be prepared for the rollout of additional employee protections under the Biden administration.
Priorities That President Biden Has Already Announced
Extending and …
NLRB Postpones All Representation Elections Until At Least April 3
By John Dudrey, Tim O'Connell & Victor Kisch on
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced yesterday that all currently scheduled representation elections – including vote-by-mail elections—have been postponed until at least April 3, 2020 because of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Here is what the NLRB had to say:
Due to the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Labor Relations Board today approved the suspension of all representation elections, including mail ballot elections, for the next two weeks effective immediately, through and including April 3, 2020.
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A Return to Common Sense in Federal Labor Law
By Ryan Kunkel, John Dudrey & Todd Hanchett on
Through a series of decisions issued in late 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has signaled a return to common sense in its approach to the rules governing labor relations. Here are a few of the Board’s decisions that are of interest to employers.
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NLRB Gives Employers Greater Discretion to Limit Union Activity on Their Premises
By Melissa Healy & Jim Shore on
The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) recently issued a decision in UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside that reverses longstanding Board precedent and holds that employers no longer have to allow nonemployee union representatives access to public areas of their property unless (1) the union has no other means of communicating with employees or (2) the employer…