The NLRB has reversed its 2011 Specialty Healthcare decision, which in turn reversed its 2017 PCC Structurals decision, meaning the NLRB will no longer permit a union to try to organize only a sliver of a workforce (a so-called “micro-unit”). Now an employer (or workers) may defeat a union’s effort to organize a micro-unit by proving […]
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Reversing a 1999 decision, Sandusky Mall Co., the Board upheld an employer’s right to eject non-employee union agents from its premises, even though it had routinely granted other non-employees’ permission to solicit on the same premises for “civic, charitable and promotional activities.” In doing so the Board held that a union’s presence to solicit customers to […]
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The DOL has released the final overtime rule that has been discussed as far back as the Obama Administration. As anticipated, the new rule includes multiple changes to current overtime laws, including increases to the minimum guaranteed salaries for most overtime exemptions, an increase to the minimum requirement for so-called “highly compensated” employees, and permitting […]
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In 2018, the Supreme Court rejected, in a decision titled Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the argument that Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act’s protections for protected concerted activity somehow encompass a right to file class action and collective action lawsuits. There the Supreme Court held that, accordingly, employers can require pre-dispute arbitration agreements, […]
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Even though the most current form I-9 expired 8-31-19, USCIS advises employers should continue to use it until the new version is released. The USCIS statement is found on its I-9 Central website, which employers can continue to check for release of the new version.
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