Posts Tagged ‘NLRB’

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has sued the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to rescind its required employee rights poster, which the association says the board lacks the authority to mandate. The NLRB on August 30 published a final rule mandating that virtually every business in America display an NLRB-worded poster to inform employees [...]

With Wilma Liebman already departed, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is down to three members with another departure looming at the end of the year. Nevertheless, the board has been busy overturning Bush-era decisions just days after publishing a final rule mandating the display of an NLRA Employee Rights Poster in virtually every workplace. [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released its final rule for the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Employee Rights posting requirement. This will be published in the Federal Register on Aug. 30, 2011. This rule requires employers subject to the NLRA to post notices of employee rights under the NLRA. Subpart A of the rule [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today (June 22, 2011) is publishing in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to amend election rules that will allow for electronic filing and speedier voting time-frames and result-publishing. “Resolving representation questions quickly, fairly and accurately has been an overriding goal of American labor law [...]

In a batch of recent decisions, the National Labor Relations Board has been moving aggressively to safeguard both "protected concerted activity" among co-workers and online commentary by employees on social media sites. Yesterday (May 18, 2011), the NLRB joined the two initiatives in a complaint filed against Hispanics United of Buffalo after the nonprofit "unlawfully [...]

Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) extends workplace safeguards to employees' "protected concerted activity" in discussing wages, hours and working conditions, a protection that was generally thought to be confined to union organizing. Thus if a worker were fired for discussing a union issue with other employees, that could be considered a [...]

The courts have yet to weigh in, but a recent settlement between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and a Connecticut ambulance company may mean more freedom of speech—or at least retaliatory protection—for employees who post comments about their companies online. The incident has several angles to it, only one of which relates to the [...]

Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and subsequent amendments and revamps such as the Taft-Hartley Law, union organizers collect signatures on cards from workers at a company, which they can then submit to the owner to certify the union or send  to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRF) to certify them for a union [...]

The newly reconstituted National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which oversees relationships between organized labor and business, this past Friday (Aug. 21, 2010) upheld the first four of hundreds of decisions rendered by the two-member NLRB that existed in the waning months of the Bush administration–decisions that were later invalidated by the Supreme Court. Earlier this [...]

Under Executive Order 13496 issued by President Obama early in his administration, federal contractors and subcontractors are obligated to inform their workforces of their right to join a union. After a lengthy internal government review and public commentary period, the final rule implementing that order has been issued, and as of June 21, 2010, affected [...]