Employment Law Report

By Edwin S. Hopson

The National Labor Relations Board announced on May 27, 2012, that Board Member Terence F. Flynn, a Republican, had submitted his resignation the day before to President Obama and to NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce. Flynn’s resignation came after allegations surfaced that he had provided confidential information to former ...

By George J. Miller

On May 22, 2012, in long standing case involving Park Point University in Pittsburgh, a three member majority of the National Labor Relations Board issued an invitation for briefs from interested parties on the question of whether private university faculty members seeking to be represented by a union are employees ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled in Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board that the NLRB lacked a quorum when it approved new rules governing union representation elections and that therefore the rules are invalid.  In his May 14, 2012 decision, U.S. District Judge James ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

New rules governing procedures applicable to the processing of representation cases before the National Labor Relations Board went into effect on April 30, 2012.  According to an April 26, 2012, memorandum issued by NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon to NLRB field personnel, the new rules “are designed to reduce ...

By Glen M. Krebs

The United States District Court for The Northern District of Florida (Pensacola Division) in the case of Bayou Lawn & Landscape Services, et al., v. Hilda Solis, et al., has enjoined the implementation of the H-2B regulations which were scheduled to take effect on April 27, 2012.  The new regulations were to change the methods and ...