Labor Relations / Unions

Scalia formally nominated to head DOL, set for confirmation hearings

09/18/2019

President Trump on Sept. 11 formally nominated employment law attorney Eugene Scalia to replace Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor.

Ensure arbitration meets NLRB standards

09/18/2019

For several years, the NLRB has argued that some arbitration agreements violate the NLRA because they limit employees’ right to engage in concerted activity to improve working conditions. Now, the NLRB has eased its criticism of one popular arbitration condition: Mandatory arbitration.

Snapshot: How many Americans are union members?

09/10/2019

2019 marks the second year in a row in which just 10% of Americans belong to a union.

Scalia gets nod to become next secretary of labor

07/23/2019

President Trump announced July 18 that he would nominate Eugene Scalia to replace Alexander Acosta as secretary of labor.

NLRB changes solicitation rules to favor employers

07/19/2019

The National Labor Relations Board in June issued a decision that reversed a longstanding precedent by holding that employers may bar nonemployee union representatives or organizers from soliciting employees or promoting union membership in public areas within an employer’s facility.

Acosta resignation depletes an already shallow DOL bench

07/16/2019

The resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta means only half of the Department of Labor’s 14 positions that require Senate confirmation are occupied nearly two-and-a-half years into the Trump administration.

Trade union lawyers target age discrimination

06/20/2019

If you think labor unions only cause trouble for employers that find themselves on the wrong side of a picket line, think again. At least one union has become a driving force in a nationwide effort to ferret out age discrimination and file class-action lawsuits to make it stop.

Administration’s employment law agenda priorities revealed

05/29/2019

The Trump administration’s Spring Regulatory Agenda—essentially the government’s policy to-do list—lays out an array of goals affecting employment law.

Democrats mount effort to roll back anti-union initiatives

05/21/2019

A bill introduced by House Democrats in early May would outlaw state legislation that lets employees in unionized workplaces opt out of paying union dues.

NLRB: Bathroom chat isn’t ‘protected’ activity

05/14/2019

Even in nonunion workplaces, the National Labor Relations Act protects the rights of employees to engage in “concerted activity” that aims to benefit their job-related mutual aid or protection. But does that protection cover two workers who are overheard complaining about clients in a bathroom? Apparently not.