by Girish Anand | Jul 5, 2018 | NLRA, NLRB
On this day (July 5) in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which in turn created the ever-present National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to oversee employee rights in the workplace. The NLRA is also known as...
by Girish Anand | Jun 8, 2018 | NLRA, NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB( today announced that it will undertake a comprehensive review of its policies and procedures governing ethics and recusal requirements for board members. This initiative will ensure that the NLRB’s stakeholders—and the...
by Girish Anand | Jun 6, 2018 | NLRB
Responding to criticism from three liberal Senators, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman John Ring has affirmed that the agency will issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemking (NPRM) on defining joint employer relationships “as soon as possible, but...
by Girish Anand | May 21, 2018 | NLRA, NLRB, U.S. Supreme Court
Voting along ideological lines, the Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 that employers can enforce signed binding arbitration agreements with their work forces, thus legally barring class action lawsuits. The ruling allows employers to require employees to sign not only...
by Girish Anand | May 14, 2018 | DOL, NLRB, OSHA
The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, released this past week, reveals a compendium of actions — and reversals of actions — that the Trump administration’s various agencies hope to carry out in the coming months, not the least of...
by Girish Anand | May 9, 2018 | NLRB
In its latest regulatory agenda, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has indicated that it intends to take on defining the standard for determining a joint employer relationship through rulemaking. This effort follows the board’s failed attempt to redefine...
