Publications
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11.05.2021OSHA Issues COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary StandardUpdatesThe Occupational Health Safety Administration (OSHA) issued the anxiously-awaited COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (Vaccine ETS), which mandates that private employers with 100 or more employees (Employers) implement a COVID-19 vaccination policy.
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12.02.2020Labor Law Developments to Expect During a Biden AdministrationUpdatesPresident-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.
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04.02.2020NLRB Will Restart Union Representation Elections April 6, 2020Updates
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.
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09.19.2019Washington Supreme Court Upholds Workweek Averaging for Non-Agricultural Piece-Rate WorkersUpdatesOn September 5, 2019, the Washington Supreme Court held that non-agricultural employees do not have to be paid a separate hourly rate for time spent on non-piece-rate activities.
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04.29.2019Employer Action Recommended to Navigate New Pay Data Reporting to EEOCUpdatesMost employers have heard the news that the once-paused EEO-1 pay data reporting requirements are now live, and the deadline to respond is set for September 30, 2019.
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06.29.2018Supreme Court Shoots Down Forced Agency Fees for Public Sector Union WorkersUpdatesThe U.S. Supreme Court this week overruled longstanding precedent to hold that public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees who have opted not to join a union.
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08.31.2015NLRB’s Expanded “Joint Employers” Test: The Employers’ PerspectiveUpdatesThe decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week in BFI Newby Island Recyclery expands the circumstances in which two otherwise separate and independent employers may be found to be joint employers of a group of workers.
Presentations
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05.09.2019 - 05.10.2019Labor & Employment Class Litigation Developments and TrendsSpeaking Engagements
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04.28.2017Labor & Employment Class Litigation Developments and TrendsSpeaking EngagementsLaw Seminars International (LSI): Class Actions Conference
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06.05.2012