Topic
Union Representation
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School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 3/27/2019
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: As a principal, I think that most of the employees in my building are…
Labor & Employment Essentials
NLRB ADRESSES PROSPECTIVE CONTRACTS VS. ELECTION BAR
Under the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) has jurisdiction over the process by which employees decide whether to select union representation for their workplace.…
California Public Safety Labor Blog
SB 1085 Expands “Release Time” To All Public Sector Employees
In February of 2018, State Senator Nancy Skinner introduced Senate Bill 1085. This much needed legislation ensures that public employees are able to take a leave of absence in order…
Vorys on Labor
Fuyao Workers to Vote on UAW Representation on November 8 and 9
By Allen Kinzer
On October 25, Fuyao Glass America, the UAW and the NLRB reached an election agreement for an NLRB-supervised, secret-ballot election at the Fuyao plant in Moraine, Ohio. Approximately 1,500 Fuyao…
Vorys on Labor
Big Defeat for UAW as Nissan Workers Vote “No”
By Allen Kinzer
By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, Nissan’s production and maintenance employees at its Canton, Mississippi facility rejected UAW representation. The count was 2,244 “no” votes to 1,307 “yes” votes. The UAW…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
I Was “Recommended” By The United Auto Workers Union
By Mike Helfand
I get a ton of sales calls, mostly from doctors and physical therapists who don't care about their patients. They'll gladly endorse me, without knowing anything about me, if I…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
Business Group Challenge to OSHA Interpretation Survives Motion to Dismiss and Leaves Serious Questions About Continued Viability of Interpretation
By Benjamin D. Briggs, James L. Curtis, and Craig B. Simonsen Seyfarth Synopsis: In a victory for employers, a Texas federal court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging an…
Employer Labor Relations
NLRB Finds Employer Did Not Need to Provide a Union Representative During a Police Interrogation During Which Management Was Present
By: Christopher W. Kelleher, Esq. Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB held that American Medical Response of Southern California (“AMR”) did not violate an employee’s rights during a police investigation of an…
Workforce Bulletin
Court Refuses To Dismiss Challenge To OSHA Practice Allowing Unions To Accompany OSHA Workplace Investigations
United States District Court in Texas has refused to dismiss a law suit challenging OSHA’s practice of allowing union representatives and organizers to serve as “employee representatives” in inspections of…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Sour Note – Musicians Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors, NLRB Tells Theater Company
By Chad P. Richter, Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen
A Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that a group of musicians were statutory employees under the National Labor Relations Act and, therefore, entitled to vote…