NLRB
What’s Going on at the NLRB?
March 10, 2025
Here’s the details of what happened in court (for inquiring minds).
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Week in Review – EEOC and NLRB Start Enacting Trump’s Executive Orders, Challenges to Federal Agencies’ Independence, and New Guidance on College Athletes
February 19, 2025
Each week as the new presidential administration takes shape, we get a clearer picture of how its priorities will affect federal agencies, and how those changes will affect the employers and educational institutions that interact with those agencies.
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President Trump Removes Democratic NLRB Member and General Counsel
January 28, 2025
In the evening hours of Monday, January 27, 2025, President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and Democratic Board member Gwynne Wilcox.
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2025 NLRB Predictions
January 8, 2025
2025 will almost certainly be a busy year at the NLRB as Trump 2.0 re-sets the NLRB’s course in a more business-friendly direction.
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The NLRB Overturns Decades-Old Precedent by Banning Captive-Audience Meetings
November 25, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board made the inevitable official when it recently held that employee attendance at employer-mandated meetings where employers express their views on potential unionization – violate the National Labor Relations Act.
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NLRB GC to Seek Broad Remedies for Non-Compete and Stay-or-Pay Provisions – Part II
November 15, 2024
As we noted in Part I of this special two-part blog, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued an important policy memorandum last month. Here, Part II addresses stay-or-pay provisions, the GC’s legal position that such provisions are presumptively unlawful, and the remedies she will seek for employees subject to stay-or-pay provisions.
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NLRB Finds Captive Audience Meetings Illegal
November 14, 2024
Relying on Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), employers have long been using so called “captive audience meetings” to express their view to employees regarding unionization.
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NLRB GC to Seek Broad Remedies for Non-Compete and Stay-or-Pay Provisions – Part I
October 14, 2024
In GC Memorandum 25-01, Jennifer Abruzzo asserts that most “stay-or-pay” provisions, where workers agree to repay their employer for certain benefits if the employee prematurely leaves employment, should be found unlawful unless narrowly tailored.
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A Game of Cat and Mouse: Are Your Remote Workers Really Productive?
July 10, 2024
When work went fully remote, employers worried about how they could ensure that employees were clocking their required hours.
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NLRB Injunctions Are Now More Difficult to Obtain, At Least in Some Jurisdictions
June 13, 2024
In Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, the Supreme Court held that a more stringent test applied to lawsuits filed by the National Labor Relations Board that seek injunctions to halt serious labor violations.
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General Counsel Abruzzo’s Latest Memorandum Encourages a Further Expansion of Remedies for Employees
May 24, 2024
On April 8, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued GC Memo 24-04, providing yet another memorandum broadening remedies for employees that have been wrongfully discharged for engaging in union or other protected concerted activity.
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Chamber of Commerce v. NLRB and the Reimplementation of the 2020 Joint-Employer Rule
March 29, 2024
On March 8, 2024, in Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. National Labor Relations Board, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker of the Eastern District of Texas struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 rule determining the standard for joint-employer status and the NLRB’s rescission of the 2020 joint-employer rule.
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