The National Labor Relations Board has thrown out the Trump-era standard used to determine whether a microunit is appropriate and reinstated the Obama-era standard.

The general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, on April 11, 2022, filed a brief in a case pending before the NLRB asking the Board to overturn decades-old precedent and make several significant changes to employers’ rights during unionization campaigns.

Perkins Coie is pleased to present the third edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, highlighting the past year’s most noteworthy developments.

Perkins Coie is pleased to present the second edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, highlighting the past year’s most noteworthy developments.

President-elect Biden has long been allied with the labor movement, and during his tenure as vice president, the administration pursued policies favorable to organized labor.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a press release on April 1, 2020, stating that The National Labor Relations Board will not extend its temporary suspension of Board-conducted elections past April 3, 2020 and will instead resume conducting elections beginning Monday, April 6, 2020. 

Perkins Coie is pleased to present the first edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, offering a summary of the past year’s most noteworthy developments.

The National Labor Relations Board announced a number of changes to its representation election rules on December 13, 2019, many of which, to some degree or another, restored elements of the Board’s procedures prior to the 2014 overhaul of these rules.

For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will make significant regulatory changes to Title IX, the federal law regulating sex and gender discrimination in the educational environment.

On May 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the rule adopted by the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) that required most private sector employers to display on their properties and websites a large poster notifying employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act) and that failure to do so would be an unfair labor practice. 

This well-established principle surprises many nonunion employers who mistakenly think that the federal law protecting union activities, the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), does not apply to them.  The reality is that the NLRA protects nonunion employees in exactly the same way it protects employees engaged in union activities.