Topic
Bargaining Units
55 published works
Global Workplace Insider
Ontario Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act proposes key reforms for bargaining unit review
Under the current Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”), once a bargaining unit is certified, any changes to the composition of the bargaining unit are voluntary. Bill 148 proposals, if…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Specialty Healthcare Update: Republican Lawmakers Seek to Eliminate Micro-Bargaining Unit Standard
On May 24, 2017, Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fl.) each introduced the Representation Fairness Restoration Act in their respective Houses of Congress in an attempt to…
Labor Relations Update
17 Year Old Ruling In Representation Case Can Preclude New Claim For Employees, Divided NLRB Rules
Of all the changes to the law the NLRB has made in the last several years, the most significant involve how the agency determines bargaining units. For example, the NLRB's decision…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NLRB Pushing Specialty Healthcare Standard to Unprecedented Lengths
By now, most in the employer community are all too familiar with the NLRB’s controversial “micro-bargaining unit” standard announced in Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, 357 NLRB No.…
Labor Relations Update
Micro-Units under the Microscope: The Second and Fifth Circuit Courts Consider Specialty Healthcare and Its Misapplication
By Michael Lebowich, Mariya (Masha) Nazginova, Brett Schwab
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit joined the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits in upholding the Board’s Specialty Healthcare standard for determining…
Employer Labor Relations
Flip-Flops, Not Just For the Beach or Boardwalk: NLRB (Again) Buries Consent Requirement for Bargaining Units with Temps
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Paul Galligan and Jade M. Gilstrap Seyfarth Synopsis: Overturning decade old precedent, the Board found that temporary workers supplied by a staffing agency may be included in a bargaining…
Labor Relations Update
Stuck With It: Labor Board Forces Employers to Recognize Bargaining Units that Contain Employees of Two or More Separate Employers
By Michael Lebowich, Corinne Osborn, Rebecca Sivitz
Returning to a decision it made 16 years ago (but was overturned just 4 years after that), the National Labor Relations Board has once again ruled that it will certify…
Employment & Labor
NLRB Multiplies Impact of Expanded Joint Employer Test: Requires Bargaining in Combined Units Across Multiple Employers
Our colleagues Adam C. Abrahms and Steven M. Swirsky, attorneys at Epstein Becker Green, have a post on the Management Memo blog that will be of interest to many of…
Employer Labor Relations
D.C. Circuit: Transfer of Work Not an Unfair Labor Practice
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Kaitlyn F. Whiteside, Esq. Seyfarth Synopsis: The D.C. Circuit partly denied enforcement of the NLRB’s decision in which the Board ruled that a transfer of work constituted a change…
Employer Labor Relations
Eighth Circuit Defers to NLRB’s Specialty Healthcare Standard
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Bryan Bienias This week, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Sixth Circuit in deferring to the NLRB's Specialty Healthcare standard for determining appropriate bargaining units in union…