President Donald Trump re-submitted a host of nominations for a number of labor and other positions to the Senate this week. Many of the nominees were caught in a standoff between the White House and democratic senators over pending nominations: essentially, where the republican Senate majority did not confirm a number of democratic nominees, then…
Read More »It is apparently the deadline that never is, but the January 14 deadline for new public comments on the joint employer rule was extended again last Friday by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Under the terms of this latest extension, new public comments must be received by January 28, 2019 and responses to new…
Read More »The public comment period on a proposed new regulation from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) governing joint employer status remains open for another 2 weeks, but the proposal has already received some harsh criticism – from the General Counsel of the agency himself! NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb released his comments just over one…
Read More »Speaking of the NLRB, a bipartisan group of 83 US House members have sent a letter to the National Labor Relations Board asking the agency to roll back the Obama-era expansion of the joint employer definition. The joint employer issue has its own lengthy (and growing) history relating decisions, recusals and reversals by the National…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week released its strategic plan for the agency’s immediate future and this week that it was again extending – for a second time – the comment period for its proposed joint employer rule, which would make it harder for businesses to be held liable for labor violations committed…
Read More »As we’ve reported before, the extended public comment period relating proposed changes to the definition of joint employer ends next Thursday, December 13. The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register in September and was extended an additional 30 days to allow for additional comments. If any of our readers have yet to comment…
Read More »National Labor Relations Board member William Emanuel was cleared this week by the NLRB Ethics Office to participate in NLRB discussions and deliberations surrounding the agency’s definition of joint employer. You will recall that Emanuel participated in the Board decision last year to reverse the expanded definition of joint employer in the Browning Ferris decision…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board this week extended the deadline for public comments on its proposed joint-employer rule for an extra month. The 60-day public comment period was scheduled to end on November 13, but the agency postponed that deadline now until December 13. Public comments will be accepted until that time and until December…
Read More »It may have been a long time coming, but the National Labor Relations Board is again moving to correct the egregious 2015 ruling on the joint employer definition. Yesterday, the NLRB released a draft rule that rolls back the new definition of joint employer the agency created in its Browning Ferris decision back in 2015.…
Read More »And the third leg of this week’s NLRB stool shows the business community continuing its strong opposition to the re-nomination of democrat and former Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce to another five year term on the National Labor Relations Board. Business groups are lobbying Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) hard in opposition to Pearce with…
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