Labor Relations

House of Representatives Approves Legislation To Establish Joint Employer Standard Under NLRA and FLSA

In 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) adopted a controversial new standard for determining whether an employer is a

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CWC’s 2017 Annual Compliance Conference Highlights

Close to 170 member company representatives attended the Center for Workplace Compliance’s (CWC) 2017 Annual Compliance Conference held last week

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NT Lakis Attorneys File Brief Urging Full Eighth Circuit To Reverse Three-Judge Panel Ruling That Found Racial Epithets Uttered on Picket Line Were NLRA-Protected

NT Lakis attorneys, joined by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the full U.S. Court

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Senate Confirms William Emanuel as New NLRB Member; President Trump Also Nominates Peter Robb to be the NLRB’s Next General Counsel

The U.S. Senate this week confirmed President Trump’s nomination of William Emanuel to a four-year term on the National Labor

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President Trump Signs Short-Term Funding Bill Sparing OFCCP and Other Enforcement Agencies From Major Budget Cuts for Now

President Trump has signed a bill that will keep the federal government funded into December. The spending bill, which also

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Divided Eighth Circuit Panel Rules in Cooper Tire That Racist Outbursts on Picket Line Were Protected Conduct Under the NLRA

A divided, three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, upholding a decision of the National

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Sharply Divided NLRB, Ruling in Butler Medical Transport, Once Again Strikes Down Employer’s Social Media Policy as Overly Broad

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), the quasi-judicial agency with responsibility for enforcing federal labor-management law, has once

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