A ruling this week from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) makes clear that employers need to have thorough, yet narrowly tailored work rules and policies in place to protect themselves. In the case of Cadillac of Naperville, Inc., the Board found the employer guilty of violating the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it…
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For franchisees and business owners, the labor and employment world has become increasingly complex, and is constantly changing. Not only must employers be aware of updates to federal labor and employment laws, they must also be aware of their obligations under state and local laws. To stay current with the ever-changing legal landscape, we recommend…
Read More »The District of Columbia City Council has enacted legislation banning the use of non-compete provisions in almost all employment agreements and workplace policies. Effective February 11, 2021, the Act does not contain any retroactivity provisions for non-compete agreements in existence before its effective date, but it does require employers to modify existing employment policies (as…
Read More »The state of Tennessee has expanded its Healthy Workplace Act to allow private employers to shield themselves allegations of workplace bullying. Public employers have enjoyed immunity since 2014, but now with the Governor signing the expansion April 23 to be effective immediately, private employers can receive legal immunity as well. All the employer needs to…
Read More »Just a week or so ago, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb sent a new guidance memo out to regional directors across the country advising how the new employee handbook standard should be applied. The memo summarizes each of three categories of rules in which the provision in question should be placed…
Read More »As great as their joint employer standard reversal is, it appears that the Trump-era NLRB is not stopping there! In a separate ruling also released yesterday, the NLRB reversed the standard the agency created in its 2004 Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia decision that employer policies that could be reasonably construed by an employee to prohibit or…
Read More »Not to their guns & religion, rather to the anti-business direction that was so aggressively advocated during the eight year Obama administration. Leading the pact are still the rulings of the NLRB, about which the US Chamber produced a report, entitled Restoring Common Sense to Labor Law, which identifies the 10 most egregious rulings from…
Read More »It is a sure bet that under the current administration, the NLRB has no intention of taking its foot off the throat of non-union business. If you need a recent example, we’d point you to its decision a few weeks ago against Caesar’s Entertainment (specifically, the Rio Suites Hotel & Casino, site of the 2014…
Read More »Two weeks ago, the National Labor Relations Board ruled against T-Mobile because their handbook required workers “to maintain a positive work environment by communicating in a manner that is conducive to effective working relationships”, a rule the out-of-control federal agency thought stifled worker rights to engage in concerted activities. This week we learn, they’ve overturned…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board ruled just two weeks ago that an employee manual being used by a number of private companies was so broadly written that it violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). NLRB administrative law judge David Goldman ruled that some of the policies contained in the Quicken Loans employee manual, known…
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