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***WARNING: The following analysis is based on the 8/27/2012 version of SB 863. On 8/31/2012, the Legislature passed SB 863. Be sure to check the final version of SB 863 posted on the Legislature website.*** The proposed amendments in SB 863 (8/27...

Dr. Steven Schwartz is a Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Counseling where he specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, valuation, and damage estimation matters. He has directed and performed numerous antitrust analyses in connection with...

Dr. Steven Schwartz is a Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Counseling where he specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, valuation, and damage estimation matters. He has directed and performed numerous antitrust analyses in connection with...

With a new General Counsel's Memorandum, the NLRB has increased the autonomy of Regional Offices to seek remedies against Employers in "first contract" charges. On February 18, 2011, Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon issued memorandum...

This EIA discusses a recent decision of the NLRB that overturned 50 years of precedent. The impact of the Boards decision in WKYC-TV, holding that dues deduction clauses can survive contract expiration is analyzed with practical insight and commentary...

N. Peter Lareau uses O.G.S. Technologies, Inc., as a vehicle for examining Board and judicial precedent about an employer's obligation to bargain over a decision to subcontract work currently performed by employees represented by a labor organization...

A county judge in Wisconsin has struck down most of the law Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed last year that restricted public employees' collective bargaining rights and sparked mass protests in Madison. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas...

N. Peter Lareau uses O.G.S. Technologies, Inc., as a vehicle for examining Board and judicial precedent about an employer's obligation to bargain over a decision to subcontract work currently performed by employees represented by a labor organization...

Is "right to work" an emotional topic in Michigan? Consider the headline on the front page of the Sunday Detroit Free Press---- Right to work: the battle for Michigan's soul. For the second time in two months, Michigan residents are...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a controversial 2011 law championed by Gov. Scott Walker (R) that essentially bars collective bargaining for public employee unions. Unions had challenged the law, calling it unconstitutional. But by a 5-2 decision,...

The latest employment law Case of the Week features the ultimate smackdown steel cage match of the millennium: religious accommodation vs. collective bargaining agreement (okay, maybe a bit of hyperbole). The Third Circuit recently addressed this issue...

MINNEAPOLIS - (AP) While NFL owners and players appear to be inching toward a resolution of the league's long lockout, a group of retired players is clamoring to be more involved in the discussions. The group filed a class-action complaint against...

MADISON, Wis. - (AP) A judge on Thursday dismissed one of three lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's divisive law restricting union bargaining rights, but left open the possibility it could be filed again with slightly different plaintiffs. Dane County...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country's most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. The union decertified,...

MADISON, Wis. A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, halting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plans at least temporarily to cut most public workers' pay and strip...