Steroids are so 2010.
With high profile baseball players like Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera and Cleveland’s Shin-Soo Choo getting arrested this year for DUI, Major League Baseball aims to crack down on certain off-the-field conduct that could give the sport a black eye.
More on how this could factor into the upcoming collective bargaining agreement negotiations, after the jump.
On April 29, a unanimous three-member panel (including Member Hayes) agreed to set aside the results of an election that the Service Employees International Union lost by a 131-82 vote.
How is that good news for employers? Find out, after the jump.
Did a bunch of bloggers sue you last week for wage and hour violations?
Has the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) threatened to file a complaint against you for Twitter shenanigans?
Well, that was Thomson Reuters’ week. And, as you can imagine, it sucked.
I share their grief, after the jump…
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Nothing really. But I needed to combine three topics into one quick blog post.
On Genetics
I will be presenting a webinar tomorrow (2/16) at 1:30 PM EST on how the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act will affect your company. If you had to click on the hyperlink, then you probably should sign up for the webinar. You can learn more about the webinar here.
A company accused of violating federal law for firing an employee for comments she made on Facebook about her supervisor has settled.
How does this settlement affect how your company can control employee engagement in social networking activities? The answer, after the jump.
The National Labor Relations Board is concerned that your employees don’t know how to form a union. And the Board wants YOU to tell them how to do it. Don’t believe me? Read all about it after the jump.
Even without theNational Labor Relations Board may decide cases in a way that enhances the union’s ability to organize a workforce. The the Board may also place additional limits on employer speech rights and attempt to give union organizers access to an employer’s workplace.
But even without direct, on-site access to employees, unions have smartly taken advantage of social media and, as a result, have many new effective organizing tactics, as demonstrated in this YouTube video (after the jump)…
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I’ll admit it. Posts about union protests are boring. It’s true.
So I pick and choose my moments. Like the time I wrote about a union and its 10-foot inflatable rat. That was interesting quirky somewhat eventful.
Hmmm….
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