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  • Federal: The NLRB holds that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it discharged an employee for refusing to remove the hand-drawn letters “BLM”—the acronym for Black Lives Matter—from their work apron, finding that the employee’s refusal to remove the BLM marking was a protected concerted activity under Section 7 of the NLRA. See Home Depot USA, Inc., 373 NLRB No. 25 (Feb. 21, 2024).
  • Federal: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holds that employers may not unilaterally cease union dues checkoff after the expiration of a labor contract and that valid dues authorization forms are not required to include specific language addressing revocability upon the expiration of a labor contract. See NLRB v. Valley Health Sys., LLC, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 3865 (9th Cir. Feb. 20, 2024); Valley Hosp. Med. Ctr., Inc. v. NLRB, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 3848 (9th Cir. Feb. 20, 2024).
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