Tag:National Labor Relations Board

New Year Marks Beginning of Another Gig Economy Fight

The start of 2020 has been tumultuous for California gig workers.  California’s Assembly Bill 5 went into effect Jan. 1, bringing changes to the definitions...

NLRB Issues Raft of Rollbacks Benefiting Employers

Last December, employers saw a series of decisions and developments out of the National Labor Relations Board that tipped labor policy more in their...

NLRB Upholds Restrictions on Employees’ Speech to Media

The federal government’s labor watchdog is using a more employer-friendly test to determine whether employers unlawfully bar their workers from talking to the press. The...

Misclassification Per Se Doesn’t Violate Labor Law, NLRB Rules

Employers face a litany of liabilities if they misclassify employees as independent contractors. But at least worker misclassification isn’t by itself a labor law...

Littler Mendelson Survey Tracks Top Employer Concerns for 2019

The Department of Labor is working to put regulatory changes in place before the 2020 election. At the same time, state and local employment...

NLRB Issues Wide-Ranging Summer Decisions

Labor standard revisions — many of them favorable to employers — continue to trickle out of the National Labor Relations Board under the Trump administration....

Gig Economy Gets Backing From NLRB

Uber and other gig economy companies are getting encouraging opinions from federal agencies on the use of independent contractors. In an advice memo released this...

DOL Proposes ‘Other’ Rules After Overtime

While employers are reviewing their pay practices for the overtime overhaul that the U.S. Department of Labor recently revealed, the DOL has followed up...