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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

By |2020-09-21T13:54:58-05:009/16/2017|Categories: Affirmative Action and Diversity, Discrimination and Harassment, Labor Relations|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on President Trump Signs Short-Term Funding Bill Sparing OFCCP and Other Enforcement Agencies From Major Budget Cuts for Now

Fifth Circuit Curbs NLRB Overreach, Rules in T-Mobile USA, Inc. v. NLRB That Employer’s Workplace Conduct Policies Did Not Violate Federal Labor Law

In a welcome decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the court has reversed major

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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

By |2017-08-18T13:50:20-05:008/18/2017|Categories: Labor Relations|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Sharply Divided NLRB, Ruling in Butler Medical Transport, Once Again Strikes Down Employer’s Social Media Policy as Overly Broad

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

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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

By |2017-07-14T16:05:29-05:007/14/2017|Categories: Agency Enforcement, Labor Relations|Tags: , , |Comments Off on President Trump Nominates Republicans Marvin Kaplan and William J. Emanuel to National Labor Relations Board

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

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