In a recent turn of events, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) overturned a prior ruling and upheld an employer’s policy preserving the right to monitor employee use of company devices and reserve the right to search personal property, ...
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Labor Relations
Labor Implications for Mid-Size Employers Taking CARES Act Loans
Much has been written about the benefits available to employees of employers with fewer than 500 employees under the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act, including enhanced unemployment, paid sick leave and paid family medical ...
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NLRB Proposes to Overhaul Union Election Procedures
The National Labor Relations Board recently issued the first of its planned regulations overhauling parts of its union election procedures. These updates arguably make it easier for workers to remove a labor union representing a bargaining unit. ...
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Have Project Labor Agreements Been Taken Too Far?
For more than a century the interplay between labor and antitrust law has been a difficult one. Congress has attempted to strike a balance between protection of worker rights and prohibitions of anticompetitive activities.
Environmental laws, such ...
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Non-Union Companies Can Incur Union Pension Fund Withdrawal Liability
In recent years, much has been reported about public sector pension systems and their severe levels of underfunding. Many such plans have less than 70% of the funds necessary to provide the pensions promised to state and local employees. The latest ...
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NLRB Restores Long-Standing Precedent
Union Employers May Make Unilateral Employment Policy Changes When Consistent with Past Practices...
In a 3-2 decision involving Raytheon Network Centric Systems last week, the National Labor Relations Board restored a 1964 precedent allowing an ...
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Dennis Cook and Ron Brown: Super Lawyers
We are pleased to announce that Dennis Cook and Ron Brown have been selected to the 2017 California Super Lawyers list. The annual selections are made through a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer ...
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Workplace Policy: Court Says Whole Foods Overreached
Whole Foods claimed that its policy barring employees from all unapproved recording in the workplace was in the best interest of the employees. But that didn’t stop the Second Circuit Court of Appeal from upholding a National Labor Relations Board ...
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