Matt Austin to Present “Is Your Handbook a Hand Grenade” at Lancaster Fairfield Area Chamber Meeting
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Speaking
Employment attorney Matt Austin is excited to present the always-riveting seminar: “Is your Handbook a Hand Grenade” to the Lancaster Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce on June 6, 2013. This presentations will cover many of the nuances between a lawful, beneficial handbook and an unlawful detrimental handbook, including toxic policies, iron-clad policies, and policies that…
Read More The Difference Between Unable to Pay and Unwilling to Pay
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Negotiations
As appearing in the Human Resources Association of Central Ohio (HRACO) newsletter The Difference Between an Unwillingness to Pay and an Inability to Pay is Enormous A company’s financial health is generally confidential information that is not known to the rank and file workforce or the union that represents them. Yet, there is a little…
Read More What is Union Street Theater?
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Street Theater
Street theater, like picketing (here and here), handbilling, and blowing up a union rat, is used by unions to exert pressure on non-union companies. The union’s thought is that if it can make life uncomfortable for the non-union company, then the non-union company will sign a collective bargaining agreement and have its employees become members of a union. In reality,…
Read More Obama’s Appointments to the NLRB Were Unconstitutional, Now What?
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Unconstitutional
As appearing in the Human Resources of Central Ohio (HRACO) monthly newsletter Obama’s NLRB Recess Appointments were Unconstitutional, Now What? In order for the five-Member National Labor Relations Board to operate, there must be a quorum of at least three Board Members at all times. Less than three Board Members and any action…
Read More What Do You Know About The Union Rat?
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Union Rat
A few posts ago I covered picketing. Part I dealt with Recognitional, Informational, and Area Standards Picketing. Part 2 covered Mass Picketing, Common Situs Picketing, and Signal Picketing. I promised at the end of the signal picketing excerpt to expand on the Union Rat. Here’s me making good on that promise. Unions consider employers who do not have unions to be rats.…
Read More HRACO Labor Relations SIG Preview
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Arbitration Agreements, At-Will DIsclaimers, Backpay, Beck Objectors, Card Check, Persuader, Temporary Workers, Union Elections, Union Organizing
As appearing in the Human Resources of Central Ohio (HRACO) monthly newsletter Are You Coming to the HRACO Labor Relations SIG to Learn About These Important Changes From the National Labor Relations Board? Thank you for such great feedback and enthusiasm for HRACO’s first Special Interest Group dedicated exclusively for traditional labor matters. A…
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