?The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently clarified that extraordinary remedies, including reimbursing expenses associated with bargaining, are available for repeated or egregious misconduct. We’ve gathered articles on the news from SHRM... Read more »
?The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act has little chance of being passed by Congress this year, but the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) still has the power to adopt many... Read more »
?Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. labor secretary, faced intense partisan wrangling at her Senate confirmation hearing on April 20. The support and opposition fell mostly along party lines, as... Read more »
?Employees will likely have a harder time voting out unions they no longer want to represent them if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finalizes a proposed rule to rescind a 2020... Read more »
?California law requires an employer to provide an employee with a meal period during a work period of more than five hours per day, except as prescribed. However, on March 23, Gov.... Read more »
?Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended the company’s labor practices, garnering both praise and criticism from lawmakers in a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on March 29. The... Read more »
? In the Illinois Supreme Court’s latest ruling in the biometric privacy space, it decided in Walton v. Roosevelt University that claims brought under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by union... Read more »
Chipotle Mexican Grill will pay $240,000 to former workers of an Augusta, Maine, restaurant to resolve claims that it closed the site as part of alleged union busting. Chipotle has denied any... Read more »
?On March 24, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation repealing Michigan’s right-to-work law for private-sector employees. The legislation had previously passed the Michigan House of Representatives on March 8, and the Michigan Senate on... Read more »
?The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently confirmed that employers cannot discipline or fire workers for publicly raising concerns about racism in the workplace. In a Feb. 27 memo, the board concluded... Read more »
