By Edwin S. Hopson
In an interview published on August 29, 2011, in the New York Times, former NLRB Chairman Wilma Liebman responded to critics of the Board during her recent tenure. “The criticism is grossly out of proportion to what has happened and what has been done. We knew we were going to have a boxing match, but we didn’t expect our opponents ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
At midnight on August 27, 2011 National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma Liebman’s third term as a Member of the NLRB ended, reducing the five-member Board to three. Liebman has served on the Board for almost 14 years under three presidents, beginning with President Clinton.
President Obama designated Member ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
Each year, LexisNexis honors a select group of blogs that set the online standard for a given practice area. We were just notified that the Wyatt Employment Law Report has been nominated as a candidate for the LexisNexis Top 25 Labor and Employment Law Blogs of 2011. The Top 25 will be featured on the LexisNexis site: Labor and ...
By Michelle D. Wyrick
As we move into the dog days of summer, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) has announced its launch of a smartphone application that enables workers and supervisors to monitor the heat index at their work sites. The app, which is available in English and Spanish, is supposed to help prevent heat-related illnesses. It uses ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On August 10, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board issued an order that will lead to a re-run of a mail ballot election held in the fall of 2010 involving some 43,000 employees of Kaiser Permanente in California. This was the largest mail ballot election ever conducted by the NLRB. The employees were voting on whether to remain ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On August 09, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Mezonos Maven Bakery, 357 NLRB No. 47 (2011), in which it held that the Supreme Court’s decision in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, 535 U.S. 137(2002) was binding upon the Board in deciding that it lacked the authority to award backpay to ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
According to an article in the August 8, 2011 Wall Street Journal, the U.S. House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena on Sunday, August 7, 2011, to the National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel requiring that he turn over by noon on August 12, 2011, certain materials, including its emails, call logs and ...