Private Sector Legal Developments
- NLRB Elections Rules
- United States Department of Labor Holds Wal-Mart Accountable
- EEOC Restricts Employer Use of Criminal Background Checks
- EEOC Prohibits Employer Discrimination Against Transgender People
- Can Employers Require Workers to Sign Away Their Right to Come Together to File Class Claims Over Working Conditions? NLRB Says No.
- Judge Orders Backpay and Reinstatement for Workers Fired for Discussing a CA Workers' Rights Book on Facebook
- Supreme Court Says Employers Must Provide Meal and Rest Breaks
- SB 299 extends pregnancy leave protections in California
- Restrictions on Credit Reports used by Employers
- New Anti-Wage Theft Law
- Wage Theft Prevention Act of 2011
- Changes to NLRB election process
- Victory for hotel workers after four-year battle with Disneyland Resort over wages and health care
- Gingrich Says Abolish “Stupid” Child Labor Laws
- USDOL Announces New Short-Form Simplified LM-30 Form for Union Officers
- New California Law on Employment Safety in Health Facilities
- “Arbitration 2010 – The Steelworkers Trilogy at 50” (by Dan Boone)
- New Law Severely Limits Credit Checks
- San Francisco Ordinance Enforcing Penalties for Minimum Wage Violators
- Ninth Circuit Finds City Anti-Solicitation Ordinance Unconstitutional
- Dues Check Off Survives Even After Contract Expires in Right to Work States
- NLRB Unanimously Tells Employer “Don’t Take Away That Sick Leave!”
- Exigimos Justicia: Wage & Hour Class Action Filed Against Hostess Club
- Public entities in CA may require apprentices on its public works projects be indentured in a joint labor-management apprenticeship program
- Labor Code section 2810 protects workers by entitling them to sue the entity that contracted with their employer if their boss doesn’t pay wages owed
- Good News for Labor Stability as NLRB Prepares for Leadership Change
- Employee Rights Notice
- Worker Retention Ordinance Protects Grocey Workers
- New Proposed Rules for Employer “Persuaders” from the USDOL
- NLRB Proposes Changes in Representation Election Procedures
- Social Media and the NLRA: Finding the Section 7 "sweet spot"
- Some Thoughts of Gerry McKay
- Defending the Right to Bring Giant Inflatable Rats to Labor Protests
- How to Use Large Banners
- “Citizens” United v. FEC (PowerPoint)
- Hearn Construction and Carpenter' Union Local 180 Decision and Order
- Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) Are Returning to Federal Government Construction Projects
- Department of Homeland Security Rescinds No-Match Rule
- General Contractor Liable For Unpaid Wages of Workers Hired by Unlicensed Sub
- Court Orders CINTAS To Pay Its Workers A Living Wage
- Safe Staffing Buttons OK in Health Care Institutions
- Status of No-Match Litigation
- Temporary Order Stops Implementation of Anti-Worker Social Security No Match Letters Regulations of the Department of Homeland Security
- NLRB Denies Health Care Workers' Rights (Again)
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