By Edwin S. Hopson
On September 29, 2010, Deputy Director Les Jin of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the U.S. Department of Labor (OFCCP) testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs regarding OFCCP’s activities over the last year. ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On September 30, 2010, the NLRB Acting General Counsel announced an initiative to more quickly respond to charges filed when employees are discharged during a union organizing campaign. Henceforth, in all cases found to have merit by the NLRB regional directors, the General Counsel’s office in Washington, D.C. will review ...
By Kim Koratsky
As the first Monday in October looms on the horizon, we ponder what the new U.S. Supreme Court term means for employers. Labor & employment cases are certainly the majority of cases on federal dockets nation-wide. Likewise, the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering a number of employment-related cases this term. Among those cases are:
By Edwin S. Hopson
In United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 1506 (Eliason & Knuth of Arizona),, 355 NLRB No. 159 (2010), the National Labor Relations Board held that “bannering” by a union at locations associated with secondary employers did not constitute picketing nor was it sufficiently akin to picketing to constitute a threat or ...
By Mark C. Blackwell
Group health plans that are in place as of March 23, 2010 are “grandfathered” and many of the new health plan mandates applicable to new plans either do not apply, or do not apply until future years. However, a number of new rules apply effective the first plan year that starts after Sept. 23, 2010, even if the group plan is ...
By George Miller
Wyatt attorneys Byron E. Leet, Lisa C. DeJaco, and Sara C. Veeneman recently obtained a final decision from the Kentucky Supreme Court on behalf of the Jefferson County Board of Education that is important for all school boards in Kentucky. In Sajko v. Jefferson County Board of Education, et al, the court held that a teacher ...
By LaToi Mayo
An African-American plaintiff discharged for stealing confidential HR documents that he produced during an EEOC mediation session, presented sufficient evidence to support his Title VII and applicable state claim of racial harassment despite the employer’s eventual discharge of the harasser. (Collins v. Saurecia ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
After the June 17, 2010, U.S. Supreme Court decision in New Process Steel v. NLRB in which the court invalidated National Labor Relations Board decisions issued while there were only two Board Members serving during the period January 1, 2008 to April 5, 2010, the NLRB announced it would begin reviewing about 100 two-Member ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
Earlier this month, President Obama spoke to the AFL-CIO Executive Council at a meeting in Washington D.C. He had some interesting comments about the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). He stated, in part: “[g]etting EFCA through the Senate is going to be tough. It’s always been tough; it will continue to be tough. We’ll keep ...