My colleagues saw a line item in the advance sheets and said “this must be wrong, Joe; some reporter has obviously misunderstood.” The report was simple: a local labor dispute at the El Super grocery
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Want To Save Your Policies From The NLRB’s Sickle? Add Examples.
Employers who don’t want their policies sliced down by the National Labor Relations Board’s sickle, something that can spur union organizing and undermine disciplinary structure, should revise their policies (in handbooks or elsewhere) with specific
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Employee Handbooks (1971 – 2014): R.I.P.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Julius Caesar, Act II, scene 3
It is time to inter handbooks. Yours is undoubtedly an unfair labor
WHO DAT?
When there is news of faith-based groups, student associations, worker centers, and other community organizations confronting employers, the appropriate response may be to borrow a classic New Orleans line: who dat? Close inspection may
Successor Liability For Employment-Related Claims: A Pain In The Assets
There is a myth that buyers are protected from employment liabilities arising under prior ownership if there is a broad disclaimer and if it is an asset purchase. Not so. Sure, the “general rule” is
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Tactics In Addressing Union Information Requests
‘TEN-HUT, unionized employers! In the 21st century, information requests mean battle.
Sometimes, information requests are simple and short. Other times, they are 35 pages long with 150 separate requests, 12 subparts each, including everything but
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You’ve Got Another Thing Coming If You Read That “City of Arlington” Expands Agency Deference
Both the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board — in separate cases – just cited a recent Supreme Court decision as their trump card. See “High Court Ruling Hurts Case Against Poster
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Neutrality and the NLRB
Spend enough time around the water cooler with people who represent employers before the National Labor Relations Board and you will invariably hear comments like “the deck is stacked against us” or “the Board simply
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