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The Employer Handbook BlogNo, this sign that your boss posted in the breakroom is NOT legal.
Image Credit: u/AMasterfulWriter on Reddit.
Not even in Kentucky. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Unions (labor relations)
Attempts to form labor unions are skyrocketing, and the Labor Board’s top lawyer wants to facilitate
Many of you skip over my posts about labor unions because you view them as out of sight and mind.
“My business isn’t union. I’m not concerned about it.”
The Employee Rights of Act of 2022 has a nice ring to it. The problem is…
There aren’t enough Republicans in Congress to provide the votes needed to pass this new bill — let alone overcome a veto from President Biden. But that won’t stop me from talking about it and dreaming wistfully about one day what could be for my employer audience. Continue reading
Everything “employment law” mentioned in last night’s State of the Union Address
In case you missed President Biden’s State of the Union Address last night, I’ve got you covered with everything HR compliance that came up. Continue reading
When it comes to COVID-19 this season, the National Football League means business — literally. And you should too.
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Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Last season, COVID-19 breakouts on several teams threatened to cancel many National Football League games. But, NFL scrambled to make it work.
However, this year, with the vaccinations widely available, the NFL will be cracking down on teams that don’t take prophylactic steps to avoid disrupting the 2021-22 season. Continue reading
Organized labor’s favorite 12-foot inflatable protest balloon prevails — red eyes, fangs, claws and all.
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board issued this decision in which it found that a union did not violate the National Labor Relations Act by displaying a 12-foot inflatable rat with red eyes, fangs, and claws.
You and I know him as Scabby the Rat. Not to be confused with Scabbers the Rat.
Let’s answer some of your COVID-19 return to work questions. The Zoom Office Hour returns this Friday, 6/25 at Noon ET
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Last Wednesday, as part of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s EXCEL Conference, three of us (me and two of the EEOC’s education and outreach coordinators) gazed into our crystal ball to predict some of the issues that employers will face as more employees return to the workplace. Continue reading
President Biden announces a task force to help your employees unionize. Yikes!
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Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Last month, President Biden publicly supported the failed unionization attempt at Amazon’s distribution center in Alabama. Yesterday, he doubled down with an Executive Order reaffirming his Administration’s policy to “encourage worker organizing and collective bargaining.”
Here are the details: Continue reading
Court rules its ok for a winery worker to wear “Cellar Lives Matter” apparel.
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Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Imagine a non-union widget factory in which widget makers want to unionize. As part of the unionizing campaign, one of the widget makers decides to wear a vest on which he writes “Widget Lives Matter.” Management is concerned that this vest is racially insensitive, will foster employee dissension, and potentially become a PR nightmare. So, it orders the employee to remove the vest.
Is this legal? Continue reading
Will the National Labor Relations Board save Scabby the Rat from extermination? 
Scabby the Rat, the infamous union picket line protest symbol, fears no cat — especially not this one. Scabby feared no man either, except for Peter Robb, the former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
GC Robb, you see, was on a mission to deflate and exterminate ‘Ol Scabby for good. Continue reading