Feb
19
Legislation introduced by House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) would effectively undo the criteria used to determine an appropriate bargaining unit established by the National Labor Relations Board’s recent Specialty Healthcare decision, and prevent the Board from pursuing its proposed changes to representation election procedures. Specifically, the Workforce Democracy and …
Jan
28
BY MELANIE TROTTMAN Employers can’t require their employees to sign arbitration agreements that forbid the workers from collectively pursuing legal claims over issues such as pay and hours, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a decision likely to rile business groups. In a vote taken Tuesday but disclosed late Friday by the agency, the …
Jan
10
The National Labor Relations Board continues to jump into controversial workplace issues, ruling late Friday that employers can’t force employees to agree to arbitration instead of taking their workplace claims to court. According to The New York Times: In a decision that will no doubt anger many companies, the labor board concluded that a federal …