State and Local Employment Law Round-Up – Volume 1, Summer 2017
NT Lakis attorneys are pleased to introduce a new series of guides focused on recent significant state and local employment
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
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
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
Eighth Circuit, Reversing NLRB, Rules That Campaign by Workers To Disparage Their Employer Was Not Legally Protected Activity
In a welcome decision issued by the full Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the court has ruled that employees who
President Trump Nominates Republicans Marvin Kaplan and William J. Emanuel to National Labor Relations Board
President Trump has nominated attorneys Marvin Kaplan and William J. Emanuel to fill the two open seats on the five-member
Basic Primer on the National Labor Relations Act
Over the last few years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has veered away from its traditional role of focusing
NT Lakis Attorneys File Brief With Supreme Court, Urging Reversal of NLRB’s Questionable Anti-Arbitration Rule
NT Lakis attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court in an important case testing the claimed legal authority
President Trump Signs Omnibus Spending Bill To Keep Government Running Through September 30; OFCCP, EEOC Flat-Funded
Congress finally came to agreement early last week and approved an “omnibus” spending bill to keep government operations funded through
Second Circuit Rules That Employee’s Profanity-Laced Social Media Posting Was Protected Under Federal Labor Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that an employee’s profanity-laced social media post targeting his