Depending on how big your organization is, you may or may not have any attorneys in house. Unless you are rather large, you probably don’t have a lawyer on hand with particular experience in labor and employment matters. In that case, you likewise may or may not have human resource professionals with employment law compliance … Read more
On June 20, 2017, President Donald Trump named his first nominee for the National Labor Relations Board. Republican attorney Marvin Kaplan is currently counsel to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Kaplan’s nomination leaves one more vacancy on the NLRB. President Trump is expected to nominate private-practice labor attorney William J. Emanuel to … Read more
In another clear sign of the policy shift from a Democratic to Republican administration in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on a significant labor issue pending before the Supreme Court–class waivers through employment arbitration agreements. Under the Obama Administration, the National Labor Relations Board repeatedly held that arbitration agreements prohibiting … Read more