By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision in Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, et al., No. 12-1115, holding that the order issued by the NLRB in the case was invalid in that the NLRB lacked a quorum of properly appointed members. On January 4, 2012 ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
In the wake of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals January 25, 2013 ruling in Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB’s Chairman issued the following statement on the same date which is posted on the Board’s website:
"The Board respectfully disagrees with today’s decision and believes that the ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 23, 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in 2012, the union membership rate again dropped over prior year levels.
According to BLS, the overall percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union was 11.3% as compared to 11.8% in 2011. The total number of persons holding union ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
It is that time of year again!
Most employers, with some exceptions (such as those with 10 or fewer employees during all of the previous year), must post their OSHA 300 log from February 1, 2013 to April 30, 2013 "in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. You must ensure ...
By Leila G. O'Carra
Take a look at my article on "Religious Employers Challenge ACA Mandate" which was published in Business Lexington's on-line weekly email today:
http://bizlex.com/2013/01/religious-employers-challenge-the-acas-preventive-care-mandate/
By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 11, 2013, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon released a summary of activities for the Fiscal Year 2012. The following statistics are some that Solomon highlighted on the NLRB’s website:
- Initial elections in union representation elections were conducted in a median of 38 days from the filing of the petition.
By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 9, 2013, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis submitted her resignation to President Obama. She is apparently returning to private life in California. In a press release on the Labor Department’s website, she is reported to have stated, in part: “Growing up in a large Mexican-American family in La Puente ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The National Labor Relations Board on December 15, 2012, issued its decision in American Baptist Homes of the West, d/b/a Piedmont Gardens, 359 NLRB No. 46 (2012), ruling that, in determining whether an employer must provide witness statements to a union representing an employee who has been disciplined based on ...