By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 23, 2013, the Whitehouse announced that the President had again sent the nomination of Lafe Solomon, Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, to the Senate, seeking confirmation to a four year term as NLRB General Counsel. Mr. Solomon was first nominated for the job on January 5, 2011, but his ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 22, 2013, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted to approve the nominations of Mark Pearce, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block, Harry Johnson, and Phillip Miscimarra to be Members of the National Labor Relations Board. The committee vote for Johnson and Misimarra, both Republicans, was 22 to 0 in ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 16, 2013, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines in favor of Thomas Perez’ nomination to be Secretary of Labor.
The committee also on that date held a hearing on the five nominations by President Obama to the National labor Relations Board. A vote by the committee on ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 16, 2013, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (in a 2 - 1 decision) in National Labor Relations Board v. New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation, Nos. 11-3440, 12-1027, and 12-1936 (3rd Cir. 2013), decided that the orders issued by the NLRB in this case could not be enforced because former NLRB Member Craig ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 8, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 (H.R. 1406), a law that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to give employees the opportunity to accrue paid time off or “comp time” for working overtime hours in lieu of receiving overtime pay.
The bill provides ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On May 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision in National Association of Manufacturers et al. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al., Civil No. 12-5068, 12-5138 (D.C. Cir. 2013), regarding the NLRB’s issuance of a regulation in August 2011 requiring all employers subject ...
By Glen M. Krebs
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reminding all employers that beginning today, May 7, 2013, they must start using the revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification (Revision 03/08/13)N for all new hires and reverifications.
All employers are required to complete and retain a Form I-9 for each ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions has announced it is going to conduct an executive session on May 8, 2013, starting at 10 a.m. on the nomination of Thomas Perez to be U.S. Secretary of Labor. A number of Republican Senators have voiced possible opposition to Perez’ nomination. Since the Democrats ...