NLRB to Appeal Noel Canning Decision Directly to U.S. Supreme Court
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a short statement on March 12, 2013, indicating its intention to file a petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court seeking review of...
View ArticleD.C. Circuit Invalidates NLRB’s Notice Posting Rule
In yet another blow to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), today the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in National Association of Manufacturers v. National Labor Relations Board reversed an earlier...
View ArticleThird Circuit Sides With D.C. Circuit’s Determination That Recess...
Today, in a 102-page decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals dealt the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) a significant blow and gave employers another victory in their attempts to have...
View ArticleHigh Court to Hear NLRB’s Recess Appointments Case
This morning the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case that calls into question the validity of a number of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions. On June 20, 2013, the...
View ArticleSenate Confirms New Five-Member NLRB: What Just Happened and What’s Next?
On the evening of July 30, the U.S. Senate confirmed all five pending nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), giving the agency a fully operational complement of Board members for the...
View ArticleFederal District Court First to Rule “Acting” General Counsel Lafe Solomon’s...
In a decision that is likely to generate numerous questions and perhaps some confusion, a federal district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued an order...
View ArticleA Review of Labor and Employment Policy in 2013: What’s Next in 2014?
As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to assess what happened and what didn’t happen in Washington, D.C. during the year in terms of labor and employment law legislation, regulations, and litigation. The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Hears Oral Argument in the Noel Canning “Recess Appointments” Case
This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States heard 90 minutes of oral argument in a landmark case regarding the constitutionality of President Obama’s January 4, 2012 “recess appointments” to...
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