The latest Facebook lawsuit involves an ambulance company that took action against two employees for posts on those employees’ respective Facebook pages. A paramedic for Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp (MONOC) lost a federal court lawsuit that alleged her employer illegally accessed and used a Facebook post to discipline her. Stated in the affirmative, an ambulance…

The United Autoworkers Union desperately wants to organize a foreign automaker’s US plant, and it may have an ally. After decades of watching foreign automakers rebuff attempts by the UAW to organize their employees by having stellar employee relations practices and setting up facilities in Right to Work states, there is a little glimmer of…

Illegal aliens who want to sue their employers for unpaid wages should do so in federal court in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, or South Dakota. Not in New York, D.C., or Connecticut. An employer failed to properly complete Form I-9s verifying its workers’ employment eligibility. The workers sued for unpaid minimum and…

While planning for renegotiating an expiring collective bargaining agreement should commence many months before the contract expires, the actual face-to-face bargaining usually begins about two months before the contract terminates. Renegotiations are sometimes a smoother process than negotiating the first contract because the parties are familiar with each other and their goals. However, if the…

When employers commit unfair labor practices that disrupt pre-election conditions to the point where the National Labor Relations Board determines a free and fair election could not be held, an parties are ordered to bypass a secret ballot election and to immediately begin negotiating a first collective bargaining agreement. There are no automatic rules in…

Illegal aliens who want to sue their employers for unpaid wages should do so in federal court in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, or South Dakota. Not in New York, D.C., or Connecticut. An employer failed to properly complete Form I-9s verifying its workers’ employment eligibility. The workers sued for unpaid minimum and…