As appearing in the Human Resource of Central Ohio (HRACO) monthly newsletter   Unless you lived in a cave in 2011 – and your cave did not have WiFi – you likely heard about a lot of changes from the National Labor Relations Board. And, if you’re like most companies I deal with, unless you…

People who practice traditional labor law, like me, are used to throwing around a lot of numbers and letters as short hand when talking shop. For example, we like to know whether it’s a 9(a) union or an 8(f) contract. Management lawyers like myself are used to unions filing 8(a) unfair labor practice charges, and we’re…

The National Labor Relations Board, also called “NLRB” and “the Board,” is the federal government agency responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRA has quasi-judicial powers, which means it can decide cases at administrative hearings, but its decisions are subject to review by Federal District Courts (whose decisions are subject to review by Federal Circuit Courts,…

The AFL-CIO group of unions allege that the United States Chamber of Commerce, the International Franchise Association (IFA), and more than a dozen other business groups secretly had “extensive input” on the NLRB’s proposal to change its legal standard for joint employer liability for labor law violations. The Labor Federation said in a December 7 filing…