The National Labor Relations Board is not having much luck in court lately. Less than a month after a federal court blocked implementation of the NLRB’s mandatory workplace posting rule, Judge James E. Boasberg (an Obama appointee) of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the “quickie elections” rule is [...]
As seen in the April 23, 2012 Connecticut Law Tribune
The sleeping giant has arisen. The National Labor Relations Board has been extraordinarily active lately, with two major rules going into effect on April 30 (maybe) – the poster requirement, which will invite unions to infiltrate your workplace, and the “quickie elections” rules, which will allow unions to ambush employers with only a few weeks [...]
The fate of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) poster is in legal limbo, and that is now official. Last month, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the NLRB had the authority to require employers to display an oversized poster informing employees of their right to [...]
An appeals court in California recently held an employer liable for employees’ off-duty harassment of a disabled co-worker on a blog. Unfortunately, the facts are not unique and could be happening right now in your workplace. In Espinoza v. County of Orange, the court held that the employer’s knowledge that the harassing blog existed and [...]