For a second time in recent weeks, the National Labor Relations Board has chosen to bolster unions’ rights at employers’ expense. On September 30, 2022, in Valley Hospital Medical Center
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NLRB is likely to operate with just four members for the time being.
A fully constituted NLRB is comprised of five members. Decisions are typically issued by three-member NLRB panels. Three is also the minimum number of members the NLRB must have to
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Undergraduate Resident Advisors May Possibly Unionize…For Now
Undergraduate resident advisors usually wield a lot of power over university residence halls and those who occupy them. You likely know this already if you were ever a college freshman
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“Better Late than Never” Does Not Apply When Conducting a Union Election
On February 2, 2018, a split three-member Board panel held that a prior election won by a union must be vacated and, accordingly, ordered a second election as it found
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Employers Rejoice: The Board Will Soon Have a Republican Majority Again
On January 12, 2018, President Trump nominated Morgan Lewis & Bockius partner John Ring to fill the last vacancy on the five-member Board and, if confirmed by the Senate, this
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Return to the Pre-BFI Joint Employer Standard and Moving Forward
Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors – the recent Board case overturning Browning Ferris Industries and restoring the previous joint employer standard – was perhaps the most important decision among the many decided
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Trump NLRB Gives Employers a Little More Leeway in Maintaining Work Rules
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employer does not necessarily violate the National Labor Relations Act by maintaining a facially neutral work rule, policy or handbook provision
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NLRB Unlikely To Overrule Any Controversial Obama-Era Decisions Until 2018
I hate to sound unduly pessimistic, but any hopes you had of relief from unduly labor-friendly National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) precedent this year will likely not happen because
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