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NLRB to rule if university faculty fall under NLRA 

Published: May 24, 2012

Tags: employees, exempt managers, faculty, NLRB

WASHINGTON – The National Labor Relations Board is accepting briefs in a case considering whether university faculty members seeking to unionize are considered employees and thus covered by the National Labor Relations Act, or whether they are managerial and thus excluded from the law.

Social media privacy bill advances in California 

Published: May 16, 2012

Tags: Facebook, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, privacy, social media, social networking, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Employers would be prohibited from asking employees and job applicants for their Facebook passwords under a bill moving swiftly through the California legislature.

Federal court strikes down NLRB union election rule 

Published: May 15, 2012

Tags: NLRB, President Obama, quorum, recess appointment, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, union election

WASHINGTON – A federal court has struck down new labor union election regulations, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board violated voting procedures when it voted to approve the rules.

Starbucks can enforce ‘one button’ dress code 

Published: May 14, 2012

Tags: labor law, NLRB

Starbucks didn’t commit an unfair labor practice when it implemented a dress code limiting employees to wearing only one pro-union button on their work uniforms, the 2nd Circuit has ruled.

New rules simplifying NLRB union elections in effect 

Published: May 2, 2012

Tags: NLRB, union elections

WASHINGTON – New rules simplifying and speeding up the process for union organizing elections went into effect April 30.

Court halts NLRB’s notice posting rule 

Published: April 17, 2012

Tags: DC Circuit, NLRB, notice posting rule, preliminary injunction

WASHINGTON – A federal appellate court has temporarily blocked the National Labor Relations Board from implementing its controversial employer notice posting rule, which was set to go into effect April 30.

Work rule on social networking too restrictive 

Published: April 10, 2012

Tags: National Labor Relations Act, NLRB, social media

An employer could not enforce a social networking rule requiring employees to get permission before commenting on work-related legal matters, a National Labor Relations Board administrative judge has ruled.

NLRB to appeal decision nixing part of posting rule 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: March 19, 2012

Tags: Employment Law, labor law, NLRB, notice posting rule, unfair labor practices

WASHINGTON – Employers and business groups won a partial victory in federal court earlier this month with a ruling that invalidated the portion of a controversial National Labor Relations Board rule that makes failure to post notice of employees’ rights under the NLRA an automatic unfair labor practice.

But the issue is far from settled.

NLRB protects class actions, sends employers scrambling 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: February 9, 2012

Tags: arbitration, AT&T v. Concepcion, class actions, labor law, mandatory arbitration, National Labor Relations Act, National Labor Relations Board, NLRA, NLRB, Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – Just when attorneys thought the issue of class action waivers in mandatory arbitration clauses had been settled by the U.S. Supreme Court once and for all, a National Labor Relations Board ruling has called into question employers’ ability to use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit class and collective actions.

NLRB warns against overbroad social media policies 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 27, 2012

Tags: NLRB, social media, unfair labor practices

WASHINGTON – Workplace social media use is a fertile ground for potential federal labor law violations, according to a new guidance memo released by the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board detailing the Board’s recent decisions on the issue.