Happy New Year! Several employment laws became effective January 1, 2023, and our team at Franczek P.C. has compiled them in its new Labor & Employment Law Legislative Update, focused on new laws in effect in 2023. The new laws […]
Category: Labor & Employment
Labor Updates: Recent NLRB Rulings on Scope of Union Bargaining Units, NCAA Athletes
December 29, 2022
As we’ve previously reported, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, or the Board) under the Biden administration has been issuing decisions that are more union-friendly and less favorable to employers. Earlier this month, the Board reversed a Trump-era decision that […]
Franczek P.C.’s Mike Warner and Jenny Lee Pen Law360 Article: Does NLRA Preempt Suits Against Unions For Strike Damage?
November 23, 2022
Originally published on Law360 On Oct. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of a case in which the central issue is whether the National Labor Relations Act preempts state lawsuits brought against unions for causing property damage while conducting […]
EEOC Releases New ‘Know Your Rights’ Poster
October 20, 2022
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just released an updated ‘Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal’ poster, which supersedes its earlier ‘EEOC is the Law’ poster. The poster summarizes the laws prohibiting job discrimination and explains how employees […]
New Franczek Series: Labor Updates
October 20, 2022
As we’ve previously reported, union organizing is on the upswing and the NLRB is beginning to issue decisions that reverse Trump-era precedents that were generally more favorable to employers. This is the first in what we plan to be regular […]
NLRB Proposes New Rule Expanding Scope of Joint-Employer Standard: What Might This Mean for You?
September 29, 2022
On September 6, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) issued a proposed rule to revise the current standard to determine whether employers are “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The proposed rule would rescind the Trump-era […]
Franczek Webinar: Momentum in the Labor Movement – Part I
September 9, 2022
Join Franczek attorneys Sally Scott, Mike Warner, Jason Patterson and renowned labor scholar Robert Bruno on September 22, 2022 for the first installment of our webinar series addressing the recent changes and trends in the labor movement. After years of decline, the labor movement […]
Your Neutral Uniform Policy May Violate the NLRA
September 7, 2022
In Tesla Inc., the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) recently reversed a 2019 decision in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that gave employers leeway when adopting neutral non-discriminatory dress codes. Instead, the Board applied the standard in the Supreme Court’s Republic Aviation […]