By Nelson Cary on Posted in Union Membership,UnionsThe NLRA permits employers and unions to agree to “union security” clauses in a collective bargaining agreement. This clause requires employees to join the union (and pay dues) or lose their job with the employer. Congress imposed this “membership” obligation on employees to eliminate what some call the “free rider” problem. The NLRA requires a… Continue Reading
By Nelson Cary and Ashley Manfull on Posted in Employee Handbooks,NLRBLast December, the NLRB recently established a new standard for determining the lawfulness of facially neutral employee handbook policies that “may” restrict the exercise of an employee’s NLRA rights. As more fully discussed in our prior post, in Boeing Company the NLRB rejected its previous standard for reviewing employer rules and replaced it with a… Continue Reading
By Nelson Cary and Jesse Meade on Posted in NLRBThe Senate confirmed the appointment of Peter Robb as NLRB General Counsel on November 8, 2017, by a final vote of 49-46. Robb will take over as the chief enforcer for the NLRB, and represents a dramatic departure from his predecessor Richard Griffin, who pursued a number of cases that changed NLRB law in ways… Continue Reading
