Labor Law

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• Another Decision Supporting Two-Member NLRB Decisions

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  The score is now 5-1 in favor of the NLRBs authority to issue two-member decisions. Although not a lock by any means, those numbers are certainly helpful to the Board when the issue goes before the Supreme Court. In the...
  22 hours ago

• No Duty To Bargain Over Hair Drug Testing Analysis Involving Police

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  Matter of City of New York v. PBA, ___N.Y.3d___(Dec. 17, 2009), is an interesting public sector labor law decision. The Court held that a methodology for hair testing known as radioimmunoassay (hereafter, RIAH or hair analysis) for all drug screening...
  2 days ago

• OSHA: the return of ergonomics regulation?

  
  PointOfLaw Forum — Authority: 551
  Pinning down the agencys #2 on the subject might itself be enough to induce repetitive strain [ Carter at ShopFloor ]
  6 days ago

• AALS Annual Newsletter Labor and Employment Law

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  The AALS Annual Newsletter for Labor and Employment Law has been released. 2010 AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law Annual Newsletter. It provides a summary of the recent important articles and books. Unfortunately, it does not include a...
  6 days ago

• Walsh Appointed FLRA Deputy General Counsel

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  Dennis Walsh, former member of the NLRB and long a friend of this blog, has been appointed Deputy General Counsel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority. The announcement suggests that he will help spearhead an effort to improve the FLRAs...
  1 week ago

• Around the web, December 16

  
  PointOfLaw Forum — Authority: 551
  Someone leaked SEIUs Employee Free Choice Act "cheat sheet" [ Big Government via @Eric_B_Meyer ] "Shameful" prosecutorial misconduct, lack of evidence: judge tosses charges against last two defendants in Broadcom backdating case [ AP , Ribstein ] "Date set for apartheid class action" [ Daily Dispatch, South ...
  1 week ago

• Turner on the Authority of the Two-Member NLRB: Statutory Interpretation Approaches and Judicial Choices

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  Ronald Turner (Houston) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming article in the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal: On the Authority of the Two-Member NLRB: Statutory Interpretation Approaches and Judicial Choices.Here is the abstract: Is the National Labor Relations Board...
  1 week ago

• DOL and EEOC could receive major financial boost in 2010

  
  HR Forum — Authority: 114
  The House approved a massive $447 billion spending bill that would provide a significant bump in funding for the Department of Labor ( DOL ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) for fiscal year 2010. The Consolidated Appropriations Act ( H.R. 3288 ), which combines six separate spending measures, ...
  1 week ago

• 2d Upholds Breathalyzer Tests for Police Officers Who Cause Injury Utilizing Their Weapon

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  Lynch v. City of New York, ___F.3d___(2d Cir. Dec. 11, 2009), is an important decision, Download 08-5250-cv_opn Plaintiffs,were union representatives of police officers employed by the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), who challenge the constitutionality of an NYPD policy...
  1 week ago

• Back Pay is Hell, and Utah Devs Still Arent Getting Any [Labor]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 806
  When we last left Sensory Sweep , the Utah studio that just stopped paying employees, it cut a deal with the government to pay back nearly $1 million by September. That hasnt happened, and its founder is facing tax evasion charges. The Salt Lake City Weekly has a comprehensive roundup of the Sensory Sweep fiasco, ...
  1 week ago

• Alberta Labor Relations Board Constitutionalizes Mandatory Dues Check Off

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  David Doorey from York Univ. (Toronto) promises us a story that will intrigue some and outrage other Americans (on the outrage side, see the forthcoming comments to this post from the National Right to Work Foundation and James Young). David...
  1 week ago

• How about this?

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 132
  Years ago at the behest of our branch president I filed a grievance for my local of the Letter Carriers Union (NALC) because the Post Office in San Francisco was using temporary employees instead of career employees in violation of the contract. We filed the grievance because there had been a successful grievance ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supremes Decide Major RLA Arbitration Case

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  Union Pacific v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 558 U.S. ___(Dec. 8, 2009), is an important RLitA case. It concerns the jurisdiction of the National Railroad Adjustment Board (or NRAB) which adjudicates grievances which are known in the railroad industry as...
  2 weeks ago

• Supreme Courts Union Pacific Decision

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  In Union Pacific Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Supreme Court addressed whether National Railroad Adjustment Board arbitration awards are subject to review for violations of due process. As we noted in our preview, the issue arose when the...
  2 weeks ago

• NMB Hosts Open Meeting (or was it a Hearing?) on Proposed New Voting Rule

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  Jeffrey Hirsch reported back in early November on the National Mediation Boards (NMB) notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) about changing the way union votes are counted in union representation elections under the Railway Labor Act (RLA). I attended the NMBs...
  2 weeks ago

• NLRB: Number of R Cases Drops

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 537
  The National Labor Relations Board released its Fiscal Year 2009 Performance and Accountability Report this week. According to the report, although the Boards caseload remained steady, unfair labor practice (ULP) charges increased slightly and representation election petitions decreased by 14.4%....
  2 weeks ago

• Business leaders blame Obama for high unemployment rate

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 553
  Story from Reuters about a recent jobs summit. (H/T American Spectator via ECM) Excerpt: At a recent symposium, Intel boss Paul Otellini, a contributor to both parties, expressed concern about the “amount of variability in the system” created by the state of policy flux in healthcare, energy and tax policy. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bailout for union pension plans?

  
  PointOfLaw Forum — Authority: 551
  Watch out for the proposed Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009 (Pomeroy, D-N.D. and Tiberi, R-Ohio), which could serve as the vehicle for billions more in bailouts directed at mismanaged unions and pension funds, warns Diana Furchtgott-Roth at Real Clear Politics .
  2 weeks ago

• Staying up to date on legal issues critical for trainers

  
  Thoughts from Training Time — Authority: 109
  Outdated training could cost your company more than most trainers realize. A word of caution about getting too far ahead or reusing old training materials Jackson (not his real name, but hey, we have to keep the attorneys happy!) is the training director for a large corporation. Lets call it XYZ, Inc. (Again, not ...
  3 weeks ago

• So, Democrats, hows EFCA coming?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  At EdWize, 2009-11-30 , the state of play: If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if management sees fit, be paid fairly so that, provided they are not ingrates or spendthrifts, they will do just fine being one paycheck ahead of eviction and ...
  3 weeks ago

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