Laura Malugade

Laura represents management in all aspects of labor and employment matters from counseling to litigation and everything in between.

Firm/Organization: Husch Blackwell LLP

Blogs: Healthcare Law Insights, Labor Relations Law Insider

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Labor Relations Law Insider

Employers Can Terminate Health Insurance Benefits for Union Employees During a Strike

By Terry Potter & Laura Malugade

September 30, 2019

The UAW strike against GM represents the latest strike in a string of labor disputes between management and union workers. Continuation of health benefits during a strike is always a consideration in such situations. After initially stating it would not pay for striking workers’ health care benefits, GM reversed its decision. GM’s decision to terminate health benefits would have shifted the burden of paying for striking workers’ health insurance benefits to the employees under COBRA.…

Healthcare Law Insights

NLRB Prohibits Hospital from Banning Union Pins or Badges

By Frank Gumina & Laura Malugade

May 9, 2018

The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) recently held that a California hospital illegally maintained a dress code policy that effectively prohibited employees from wearing pins and badge reels with union insignia. The hospital’s policy at issue required that “[o]nly [employer] approved pins, badges, and professional certifications may be worn.” In addition, employees were only permitted to wear identification badge reels with “approved logos or text.”…

Labor Relations Law Insider

Union Membership Plummets in Most Right-To-Work States

By Laura Malugade

January 26, 2018

As anticipated, the nationwide trend of enacting “right-to-work” (RTW) legislation has continued to grow – in the past few years alone, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Kentucky have joined the growing list of RTW states. In these states, and the approximately twenty others that have adopted RTW legislation, employers are prohibited from requiring employees to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment. Although Missouri adopted RTW legislation in 2017, it…

Labor Relations Law Insider

NLRB Overturns Pro-Union Precedent Governing Employee Handbooks and Joint Employers

By Terry Potter & Laura Malugade

December 19, 2017

Court steps — Supreme court steps. Washington, DC

On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or the “Board”) overruled Obama-era precedent involving two highly controversial decisions governing employee handbooks and joint employment standards. Earlier this year, President Trump appointed two Republicans to the five-member NLRB resulting in a 3-2 Republican majority for the first time in a decade. As anticipated, the new “Trump Board” is beginning to dismantle a series of decisions that many believed to unfairly favor unions.…

Laura Malugade

Employers Can Terminate Health Insurance Benefits for Union Employees During a Strike

NLRB Prohibits Hospital from Banning Union Pins or Badges

Union Membership Plummets in Most Right-To-Work States

NLRB Overturns Pro-Union Precedent Governing Employee Handbooks and Joint Employers

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