Tag: National Labor Relations Board

A former score projected that 32 million more people would be uninsured in a decade. (iStock by Getty Images)

House GOP to push case against ‘joint employer’ policy

Sean Higgins · July 6, 2017 5:01 pm

A 2015 decision has changed precedent for what can be considered a "joint employer." (iStock photo)

NLRB policy could stifle expansion of apprenticeships and worker training opportunities

Trey Kovacs · July 6, 2017 4:01 am

During the Obama era, the NLRB morphed into a crusading mini-legislature seeking to slow the natural demise of labor unions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Make the NLRB less great again

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2017 4:01 am

Measures would roll back changes made by the NLRB that critics said were unfair and designed to boost union organizing. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

House GOP advances pro-business labor law bills

Sean Higgins · June 29, 2017 8:04 pm

Business groups and Republicans praised President Trump's choice late Tuesday of lawyer William Emanuel to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, the main federal labor law enforcement agency. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Businesses, GOP praise Trump pick for labor board

Sean Higgins · June 28, 2017 3:33 pm

"Marvin Kaplan has the qualifications to be an effective member of the National Labor Relations Board." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lamar Alexander promises to move quickly Trump’s NLRB nominee

Sean Higgins · June 20, 2017 4:57 pm

One impact of the NLRB's decision has been to freeze engagement of new franchisees. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

What do burgers, fries, and economic growth have to do with each other?

Robert Ehrlich · June 19, 2017 4:23 pm

The Justice Department under President Trump has switched sides in a labor case before the Supreme Court dating back to the Obama administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump DOJ diverges with Obama DOJ in labor case before Supreme Court

Daniel Chaitin · June 17, 2017 9:36 pm

Garland wrote the opinion of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a labor dispute in which the American Baptist Homes of the West, under the name Piedmont Gardens, was the subject of an unfair labor practice proceeding. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Merrick Garland writes first opinion since end of Supreme Court nomination

Ryan Lovelace · June 7, 2017 4:54 pm

Companies, particularly ones that engage in franchising, feared that under the joint employer doctrine, they could be held liable for all manner of violations at workplaces they didn't directly oversee.

Labor Department rescinds expanded ‘joint employer’ rule

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2017 3:29 pm

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Republicans seek to rein in NLRB

Sean Higgins · June 6, 2017 11:06 pm

William Emanuel told lawmakers that he would be amending a letter he sent them in late December regarding whether he should have recused himself in a major case. (Wikipedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Stop trying to make micro-unions a thing, Big Labor

Heather Greenaway · May 29, 2017 10:00 pm