Trump administration rescinds NLRB memorandum viewing college athletes as employees
Abruzzo’s memorandum helped set the foundation for unionization efforts by Dartmouth men’s basketball players and a complaint ...
JD Supra1d
Acting NLRB General Counsel Pulls Back Memoranda
President Trump appointed William B. Cowen as Acting General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Cowen ...
JD Supra1d
A Valentine for some NLRB watchers: Former General Counsel memoranda rescinded
On February 14, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a Memorandum announcing the ...
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The NLRB Can’t Punish Employers Strongly Enough
I wrote a piece for the New York Times in which I argued that the Starbucks unionization campaign illustrates the inherent ...
Mother Jones8d
How Trump’s Firings “Paralyze” the NLRB
The NLRB maintains independence in part because its Board members’ terms are five years. This is intentional, Poydock says, ...
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NLRB Judge Finds Medieval Times Broke The Law Repeatedly To Defeat Union
The dinner-theater chain sued the union and got its TikTok account shut down all in an effort to intimidate workers, the ...
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NLRB rescission of Biden-era guidance suggests ‘major policy changes’ coming for employers, workers
Memoranda about severance agreements, noncompete agreements, “stay-or-pay” provisions, the rights of immigrant workers, threats or coercion during union organizing campaigns, and “captive audience” ...
The National Law Review6d
NLRB Acting General Counsel Rescinds Many of Predecessor’s Memos, Sets Stage for New Labor Policy
Acting General Counsel William B. Cowen rescinded a series of memoranda issued by his predecessor, Jennifer Abruzzo, ...
DOJ Says It Will Defend NLRB Firing to High Court if Needed, Citing 'Humphrey's Executor'
In Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the high court held in 1935 that a president must have cause to fire the member of a ...
US Department of Justice to stop defending independence of FTC, NLRB, letter says
The U.S. Department of Justice will cease defending the independent status of three consumer and worker protection agencies, ...
Rochester Business Journal1d
Trump administration makes big changes in employment and labor law
Listen to this article The new administration of President Donald Trump signals significant changes in federal labor and employment issues for businesses that also must cope with New York state’s […] ...
The National Law Review1d
NLRB Acting GC: Student-Athletes Are Not Employees
National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel William Cowen rescinded a September 2021 memorandum in which former Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo declared college athletes should be ...