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Topic: labor relations
Bankrupcy, labor unions, and remaining union free
By Jon Hyman
Fair State Brewing, one the nation's first unionized craft breweries, just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile and els...
Baning salary discussion bans
By Jon Hyman
🛑 Employers, for the love of all that is holy, STOP BANNING EMPLOYEES FROM DISCUSSING THEIR WAGES!!! 🛑 A supervisor of subsidiary of Duke...
Pro-employee vs. Pro-union
By Jon Hyman
"You can't be pro-employee and anti-union." "If you're pro-employee you should also be pro-union." Each of these...
THIS is how you respond to a group of employees organizing and forming a labor union
By Jon Hyman
Competitive salary. Excellent benefits. Great support from management. Collaborative environment. Those are a few of the glowing terms revie...
NLRB publishes (yet another) new joint employment rule
By Jon Hyman
If at first (or second, or third…) you don't succeed, try, try again. That certainly seems to be the NLRB's mantra as it relates to ...
Is this what the future of union organizing looks like?
By Jon Hyman
Last week, the employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co. voted by a margin of 32-21 to reject the Brewing Union of Georgia as their barg...
Repeat after me: Never, ever, ever ignore court orders
By Jon Hyman
Have you ever heard of a "writ of body attachment?" Me neither, until yesterday. That's when the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ...
NLRB opens the tap for a union election at Creature Comforts Brewing Company … but will it matter?
By Jon Hyman
It took more than seven months, but the NLRB has finally directed a union representation election at Creature Comforts Brewing Company. Th...
BREAKING NEWS: NLRB issues in the era of card-check union recognition and bargaining order remedies
By Jon Hyman
In Cemex Construction Materials Pacific , the NLRB significantly altered the process for how a labor union becomes certified as the exclusiv...
Getting your termination ducks in a row
By Jon Hyman
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...
NLRB resets the rules on employee handbooks … yet again
By Jon Hyman
Yes, we need to talk about employee handbooks and the NLRB … again. Yesterday, the Board decided Stericycle, Inc. , and announced its 5th (...
Why all employers should care about the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes
By Jon Hyman
At midnight on July 14, SAG-AFTRA, the labor union representing 160,000 film and television actors, went on striking, joining their fellow m...
Can an employer disable online commenting to quell pro-union messaging?
By Jon Hyman
There's a lot going on with the union organizing campaign at Creature Comforts Brewing Company . While the union (known as "BUG...
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just obliterated non-compete agreements (maybe)
By Jon Hyman
In my view, the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement of a non-compete provision that reasonably tends to chill employees from engaging in ...
What can you do about employee mass protests? (Hint: not much.)
By Jon Hyman
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 ...
Union avoidance vs. union busting
By Jon Hyman
"A company that opposes a union organizing and presents both sides of this complex issue is 'union busting.'" This is what...
Update on Creature Comfort Brewing’s union organizing
By Jon Hyman
Last week I reported that the employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co. formed their own independent labor union, the Brewing Union of Ge...
What does Creature Comfort’s union announcement mean for your craft brewery?
By Jon Hyman
The employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co. recently held a rally to announce their intent to form a labor union. They also announced t...
Employers, for the love of God, please stop banning employees from discussing their wages
By Jon Hyman
I came across the following recent post on the legaladvice subreddit . Work for a brewery. GM and owner … informed everyone that we needed...