Developing and maintaining cooperation between companies and labor unions requires a balance between the business objectives of the employer and assurance of a positive work environment for employees. Whether the goal is to remain union-free or to take a proactive stance with an already unionized workforce, employers need experienced advisors who can find common ground within the labor relations landscape.
Publications
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02.26.2024Labor Law Today—2023 Year in ReviewLawyer PublicationsPerkins Coie is pleased to present the fifth edition of Labor Law Today—Year in Review, which provides a summary of significant developments in traditional labor law over the past year.
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09.05.2023National Labor Relations Board Announces New Requirements for Union Representation CasesUpdatesThe U.S. National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC on August 25, 2023, upending decades of precedent regarding the representation election process.
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03.30.2023NLRB General Counsel: Workplace Discussions of Race Are Protected Under the NLRAUpdatesEmployees alleging racism in the workplace received favorable guidance from the National Labor Relations Board in a recent general counsel memorandum.
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02.13.2023Labor Law Today—2022 Year in ReviewLawyer PublicationsPerkins Coie is pleased to present the fourth edition of Labor Law Today—Year in Review, offering a summary of the past year’s most noteworthy and influential developments in traditional labor law.
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02.13.2023Update: NLRB Returns to Obama-Era Microunit StandardPodcastsThe National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision in American Steel Construction, Inc., in which a 3-2 Board majority threw out the Trump-era standard used to determine whether a microunit is appropriate and reinstated the Obama-era standard.
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12.20.2022NLRB Returns to Obama-Era Microunit StandardUpdates
The National Labor Relations Board has thrown out the Trump-era standard used to determine whether a microunit is appropriate and reinstated the Obama-era standard.
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04.22.2022NLRB GC Abruzzo Signals Significant Changes for Employers in Cemex BriefUpdatesThe general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, on April 11, 2022, filed a brief in a case pending before the NLRB asking the Board to overturn decades-old precedent and make several significant changes to employers’ rights during unionization campaigns.
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03.31.2022Labor Law Today—2021 Year in ReviewUpdatesPerkins Coie is pleased to present the third edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, highlighting the past year’s most noteworthy developments.
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01.13.2021Labor Law Today—2020 Year in ReviewUpdatesPerkins Coie is pleased to present the second edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, highlighting the past year’s most noteworthy developments.
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12.02.2020Labor Law Developments to Expect During a Biden AdministrationUpdatesPresident-elect Biden has long been allied with the labor movement, and during his tenure as vice president, the administration pursued policies favorable to organized labor.
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04.02.2020NLRB Will Restart Union Representation Elections April 6, 2020Updates
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a press release on April 1, 2020, stating that The National Labor Relations Board will not extend its temporary suspension of Board-conducted elections past April 3, 2020 and will instead resume conducting elections beginning Monday, April 6, 2020.
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01.15.2020Labor Law Today—2019 Year in ReviewUpdates
Perkins Coie is pleased to present the first edition of Labor Law Today —Year in Review, offering a summary of the past year’s most noteworthy developments.
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12.23.2019NLRB Board Scales Back Rules for Fast-Tracking Union Representation ElectionsUpdatesThe National Labor Relations Board announced a number of changes to its representation election rules on December 13, 2019, many of which, to some degree or another, restored elements of the Board’s procedures prior to the 2014 overhaul of these rules.
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12.05.2019US Department of Education Prepares to Upend Title IX RegulationsUpdatesFor the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will make significant regulatory changes to Title IX, the federal law regulating sex and gender discrimination in the educational environment.
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05.09.2013NLRB’s Union Poster Rule Struck Down by D.C. CircuitUpdatesOn May 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the rule adopted by the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) that required most private sector employers to display on their properties and websites a large poster notifying employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act) and that failure to do so would be an unfair labor practice.
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03.08.2011Federal Labor Law Protects Nonunion EmployeesUpdatesThis well-established principle surprises many nonunion employers who mistakenly think that the federal law protecting union activities, the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), does not apply to them. The reality is that the NLRA protects nonunion employees in exactly the same way it protects employees engaged in union activities.
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