November 6

Labor Board Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Standard

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a new rule on October 26 clarifying the standard the Board will use to determine joint-employer status, and replacing the faulty rule issued by the Trump Board in 2020. Under the new standard, an entity may be considered a joint employer of a group of employees if each.

Contract Negotiations Made Eas(ier)! NLRB Enhances Worker Power During Bargaining

On August 26, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overruled the Trump-era Raytheon Centric Network Centric Systems (2017), which had allowed employers to make unilateral changes under expired management’s rights clauses if the changes were purportedly justified by past practice. In two decisions, Wendt Corporation and Tecnocap, LLC, the NLRB reimposed employers’ duty to bargain.

NLRB Decision Boosts Union Organizing Efforts

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that an employer must bargain with a union if the union has shown majority support but the employer uses union-busting tactics to break the law and destroy the will of the workers. In Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the NLRB decided that once a union demonstrates majority.