In 2001, the NLRB held that a hotel/casino had violated the NLRA by refusing to allow Ark's off-duty employees to handbill the hotel's customers at the entrance to the hotel and at the entrances to Ark's restaurants. In March 2011, the... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. president has the power to fill vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board during both inter-session and intra-session recesses, the U.S. solicitor general told the U.S. Supreme Court this morning during arguments... Read More
On September 26, 2012, U.S. Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, announced that he and 41 other Senators had filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Noel Canning v. NLRB , Nos. 12-1115, 12-1153, challenging... Read More
by Todd L. Sarver In my last blog post, which can be found here , I observed that it seemed the NLRB had "jumped the shark" and lost its relevance. I suggested that one way to restore some legitimacy to the NLRB was to appoint true "neutral"... Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, the National Labor Relations Board is back in business. (Well, somebody tell that to the Board, where it's been business as usual lately. More on that in a moment.) Yesterday, the Senate voted mainly along party lines to... Read More
CHICAGO -- National Labor Relations Board Region 13 Director Peter Sung Ohr issued a decision yesterday in the case ( 13-RC-121359 ) brought by Northwestern University football players seeking to unionize, concluding that all grant-in-aid scholarship... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 agreed to decide whether President Obama's "recess" appointments of three members to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 should be upheld ( National Labor Relations... Read More
by Krista N. H ardwick & Clay D. Creps An employer's right to monitor and restrict what its employees say about the company on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs may have drastically changed. The National Labor Relations... Read More
The U.S. Senate’s Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) has set a full committee hearing for November 20, 2014, on the nomination of Lauren McFerran to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board. She was just nominated by... Read More
On May 22, 2013, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted to approve the nominations of Mark Pearce, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block, Harry Johnson, and Phillip Miscimarra to be Members of the National Labor Relations Board... Read More
On December 2, 2014, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the nomination of Democrat Lauren McFerran to serve as a Member of the NLRB. Her nomination now goes to the Senate floor for consideration. It would appear... Read More
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a split decison in D.H. Horton v. NLRB , No. 12-60031, decided December 3, 2013, rejected the NLRB’s ruling that an agreement between employees and Horton requiring arbitration and prohibiting class... Read More
On September 9, 2014, the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) conducted a hearing on the nomination of Sharon Block, a Democrat, to once again be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board. She was nominated... Read More
An Overview of the Board's Significant Decisions and Other Actions By Bruce D. Bagley, Esq . and Adam L. Santucci, Esq. Introduction By all accounts, 2011 was a busy year for the National Labor Relations Board ("Board"). In... Read More
On March 21, 2013, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Lamar Alexander (R-TN), offered an amendment that would defund the enforcement of any decisions or regulations made by the National Labor Relations... Read More