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The Employer Handbook BlogThe Ambien alternative a/k/a NLRB FY11 operations statistics
Yawn…
The Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board recently released a 10-page summary of operations for FY 2011. But, you can find a short summary here.
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4 new employment-law bills now pending in Congress
Below are summaries of four pieces of legislation of which employers should take note:
- Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. Senator Tom Harkin (IA-D) introduced this bill last week. It would overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. and lower the burden of proof for employees to prove age discrimination claims.
- National Right to Work Act. Senator Jim DeMint (SC-R) has introduced this bill to “preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.”
Baseball has a new social media policy. And it may be unlawful.
I’ll tell you why, after the jump…
Up with NLRB employee-rights posters, or suffer ze consequences
Back on August 26, in this post, I gave the heads up that the National Labor Relations Board would require most private-sector employers to post this notice (a super-sized version of the one on the right), in a conspicuous location, informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, which includes the right to form a union.
And then some employer groups went to court because they don’t like NLRB posters. In response, the NLRB slowed its roll not once, but twice, delaying the postponing the posting deadline until April 30, 2012.
Now a federal court has weighed in on the posting requirement. What did it say? And will your business have to post something by April 30, 2012. Find out after the jump…
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3 ways for HR to avoid unlawful, overbroad social-media policies
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced in this press release that it had issued a second social-media report to help provide further guidance to practitioners and human resource professionals.
What does that report say? And how can you bulletproof your social-media policy?
Find out after the jump…
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Say cheese! Thank you for supporting organized labor.
No inflatable rats here, folks. Just some organizing shenanigans.
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board was tasked with determining whether a union may use the photograph of an employee, without his authorization, on union-organizing materials. Click through to find out how the NLRB decided this one…
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Re-open for business: Obama recess-appoints three to the NLRB
Well, color me surprised (I think that’s purple).
Today, President Obama exercised his executive power to “recess” appoint — actually, to be technical about it, no one is on recess — three new members to the National Labor Relations Board, thus bringing the Board up to its full capacity of five members.
The recess appointees are Sharon Block (Dem.), Richard Griffin (Dem.), and Terence Flynn (Rep.). You can read more about them here in a White House release. And here is a release from the NLRB.
NLRB: Employers can keep that union-rights poster on ice
And just in time for Christmas.
The National Labor Relations Board announced today that it has again extended the deadline for covered employers to post this notice, advising employees how to form a union, among other things. The new deadline is April 30, 2012.
Here’s a sneak peek into how union-election rules will soon change
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board gave a glimpse into how it plans to change the way your workplace may become unionized. Details follow after the jump…
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Occupy National Labor Relations Board?!? #OccupyNLRB
Back in September, I joked that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was on the verge of disbanding.
(Ok, maybe it wasn’t “ha! ha!” funny. Just work with me here, will ya?)
How does this blog post relate to gridlock in Paris and a red circle? Hella-existential, I’d say…