?Takeaway: Employers should avoid work restrictions when they have no legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for them, as these restrictions can keep employees from better-paying opportunities. ?While employers have discretion in making assignments and... Read more »
?Strikes happened much more frequently last year than in 2021, according to the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). There were 417 strikes and seven lockouts in 2022, up... Read more »
?Recent court cases and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) actions reflect some momentum toward classifying student-athletes as employees. In December 2022, the NLRB filed charges against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA),... Read more »
?The board of the California Privacy Protection Agency recently held a public meeting focused on the anticipated regulations interpreting the California Consumer Privacy Act, as now amended by the California Privacy Rights... Read more »
?Overruling precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled in McLaren Macomb that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by including in a proposed severance agreement standard provisions... Read more »
?The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued its first significant decision interpreting the state’s employment discrimination law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), in three years. In a ruling that will likely be... Read more »
?Takeaway: A trial court lacks power to even consider the merits of an employer’s objections to an arbitration award where the employer failed to meet the statutory deadline for challenging the award.... Read more »
?Takeaway: Reading a provision of the California Labor Code together with a provision of the California Code of Civil Procedure leads to the conclusion that where weekly wages are due to be... Read more »
A case that will determine whether National Guard technicians can keep their union rights. Religious Accommodations On April 18, the court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit over when employers can... Read more »
?The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a union-friendly piece of proposed legislation, was reintroduced in Congress on Feb. 28 to mixed reviews. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic... Read more »
