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Showing posts with label labor relations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor relations. Show all posts
Saturday, August 26, 2023

BREAKING NEWS: NLRB issues in the era of card-check union recognition and bargaining order remedies

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In Cemex Construction Materials Pacific , the NLRB significantly altered the process for how a labor union becomes certified as the exclusiv...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Getting your termination ducks in a row

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Just because someone engages in protected conduct doesn't mean you can't fire them. It just means you better have your ducks in a ro...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

NLRB resets the rules on employee handbooks … yet again

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Yes, we need to talk about employee handbooks and the NLRB … again.  Yesterday, the Board decided Stericycle, Inc. , and announced its 5th (...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Why all employers should care about the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes

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At midnight on July 14, SAG-AFTRA, the labor union representing 160,000 film and television actors, went on striking, joining their fellow m...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Can an employer disable online commenting to quell pro-union messaging?

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There's a lot going on with the union organizing campaign at Creature Comforts Brewing Company . While the  union (known as "BUG...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just obliterated non-compete agreements (maybe)

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In my view, the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement of a non-compete provision that reasonably tends to chill employees from engaging in ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Federal agencies need to stay in their lanes

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National Labor Relations Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announce new partnership to address employer surveillance, monitorin...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

NLRB General Counsel goes nuclear on severance agreements in her guidance on McLaren Macomb

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NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just released her  Guidance in Response to Inquiries about the McLaren Macomb Decision .  Recall that...
Monday, March 13, 2023

What can you do about employee mass protests? (Hint: not much.)

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The 25 employees of Mela Kitchen at Jack’s Hard Cider recently walked off the job in protest after owner Donald Hoffman created a new drink ...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

NLRB bans non-disparagement and confidentiality covenants in severance agreements. What now?

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Is it time to rip up your stock severance agreement? Consider the following two clauses, which I bet your standard agreement contains in som...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Union avoidance vs. union busting

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"A company that opposes a union organizing and presents both sides of this complex issue is 'union busting.'" This is what...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Update on Creature Comfort Brewing’s union organizing

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Last week I reported that the employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.  formed their own independent labor union, the Brewing Union of Ge...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

What does Creature Comfort’s union announcement mean for your craft brewery?

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The employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.  recently held a rally  to announce their intent to form a labor union. They also announced t...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Employers, for the love of God, please stop banning employees from discussing their wages

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I came across the following recent  post on the legaladvice subreddit . Work for a brewery. GM and owner … informed everyone that we needed...
Monday, December 12, 2022

A tale of two employee nondisclosure agreements

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." This is perhaps the most famous opening line in the history of literature,...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Musings on dead dogs and terminated managers

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We are no longer taking ANY EXCUSE for calling off. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired

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This is how it started. This is how it's ended (for now). In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter em...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

If your surveilling employees, the NLRB is watching you

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Wearable trackers. Security cameras. GPS trackers. Keyloggers. Live webcam monitoring. Technology has made it easier for employers to monito...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Are unions cool (again)?

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Are unions cool again? Were they ever cool?  On the most recent episode of Good Morning, HR , I sat down with host Mike Coffey to discuss ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

This is what buyers’ remorse looks like

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On May 9, 2022, the baristas working at the Starbucks store located at 1123 NW 63rd St., Nichols Hills, OK 73116 voted 10-9 to unionize . It...