A recent Memorandum issued by the General Counsel (GC) of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (GC 19-04, February 22, 2019), discusses issues of importance to all employers and in particular to employers that have union contracts that provide for union dues-checkoff. In the Memorandum, the GC reminds the NLRB Regions that the Labor Management […]
In the 27 right to work states, currently in the country, union nonmembers may not be required to pay fees to private sector unions as a condition to obtain or retain employment. In the rest of the states – union security states – private sector unions and employers may enter into agreements that require nonmembers to […]
Letters from unions to owners, general contractors, and other contractors informing them of the union’s dispute with one or more of the subcontractors, working at a common construction project site (or common situs), and of the union’s plans to engage in “public informational campaigns” at the site, in furtherance of the dispute, may constitute unlawful […]
We frequently confront the question of whether complaints by a single employee to a supervisor about some condition of employment, such as double standard with respect to disciplinary actions against employees or favoritism in job assignments, constitute concerted/protected activity. Concerted/protected activities by an employee are those engaged in with or on the authority of other […]
In its 2014 decision Purple Communications Inc. and Communication Workers of America, the NLRB ruled that employees could generally use employers’ email systems to organize or engage in other concerted activities protected by Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, overturning board precedent and causing employers everywhere to scramble to update employee handbooks and […]
In a 2015 controversial decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruled that, for purposes of federal labor law violations, a business may be deemed a joint employer of another company’s employees if the business had “indirect” control over those employees. The NLRB recently announced that it would roll back on this decision, proposing a […]
In Janus v AFSCME , U.S. No. 16-1466, the Supreme Court held on June 27, 2018 that States and public sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from non-consenting employees. Such extractions violate the employees’ First Amendment right to free speech. The decision, delivered by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas […]
As previously reported on October 13, 2017, see here, the Federal Courts of Appeal were evenly divided on the question of whether class action waivers contained in otherwise enforceable employment arbitration agreements were permissible. Three Courts of Appeal, i.e., the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, had accepted the position advocated by the National Labor Relations […]
On May 8, 2018, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, by a unanimous panel, upheld the NLRB decision that restrictions imposed unilaterally by an IBEW local union on employees right to revoke union dues checkoff authorizations were unlawful. See Local 58 v. NLRB, No. 17-1058 (D.C. Cir.2018) Section 302(c)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act […]
In this week’s Legal Alert, Jerry Morales takes a look at the recent 9th Circuit case Casino Pauma regarding NLRB jurisdiction over a casino located on the Pauma Tribe’s reservation lands. See here.
