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Labor Relations

Brian D. Bertossa / January 13, 2025

NLRB and New California Law Restrict Important Employer Tool in Responding to Union Organizing

Labor Relations

In a decision released in November involving Amazon and its response to union organizing efforts, a majority of the members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned a 76 year-old NLRB decision and held that so-called employer “captive ...
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Carrie E. Bushman / October 11, 2024

PAGA Exemption for Unionized Construction Industry Employers Extended to 2038

Labor Relations

Background The Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 generally enables California employees to sue their employers on behalf of themselves and other “aggrieved employees” to recover civil penalties for Labor Code violations. In 2018, legislation ...
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Zachary Rankin / September 22, 2022

The NLRA’s Not-So-Final Joint Employer Rule

Labor Relations

This month the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a proposal to broaden the standard for determining joint employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), thereby replacing the current “final joint ...
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Lisa V. Ryan / August 21, 2020

Employers May Search Employee Personal Property on Company Premises

Labor Relations

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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Ron Brown / April 13, 2020

Labor Implications for Mid-Size Employers Taking CARES Act Loans

COVID-19 Updates

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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Cook Brown / August 20, 2019

NLRB Proposes to Overhaul Union Election Procedures

Labor Relations

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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Dennis Cook and Steve McCutcheon / August 20, 2019

Have Project Labor Agreements Been Taken Too Far?

Labor Relations

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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Ron Brown / April 3, 2018

Non-Union Companies Can Incur Union Pension Fund Withdrawal Liability

Labor Relations

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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