Tag: National Labor Relations Board

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

NLRB may chip away at right-to-work laws

Sean Higgins · April 21, 2015 9:00 am

New National Labor Relations Board guidance on permissible workplace speech by company owners and managers is causing confusion among bosses, represented here on the left by U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donahue, and workers for whom AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka would like to speak.Â

Aggressive new federal labor rules on employee speech leave companies baffled

Sean Higgins · April 19, 2015 9:00 am

While the National Labor Relations Board has five members, the person leading the charge is its general counsel, Richard Griffin.

NLRB’s Griffin pushes the envelope in labor law

Sean Higgins · April 13, 2015 9:00 am

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)

Agency’s union ‘speedy election’ rule has no firm deadlines

Sean Higgins · April 7, 2015 5:57 pm

This was the second veto Obama has issued since Republicans took control of the Senate in January and the fourth of his tenure. (AP Photo)Â

Obama vetoes GOP bill to stop union election rules

Joseph Lawler · March 31, 2015 5:05 pm

The federal government has said in a major, closely watched lawsuit that McDonald's Corp. violated workers' union rights at its individual franchise restaurants. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

Feds refusing to show cards in McDonald’s case

Sean Higgins · March 31, 2015 9:00 am

Protesters participate in a display of civil disobedience as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

U.S. signed agreement with Mexico to teach immigrants to unionize

Sean Higgins · March 30, 2015 9:00 am

A migrant worker picks oranges at a grove March 29, 2006 in Bradenton, Florida. (Phillippe Diederich/Getty Images)

More protection for illegal workers

Sean Higgins · March 23, 2015 9:00 am

The National Labor Relations Board charged the McDonald's Corp. as a "joint employer" with its individual franchises in a series of unfair labor practice complaints. [AP Photo

Big biz warns NLRB ‘joint employer’ rule goes beyond franchising

Sean Higgins · March 21, 2015 9:00 am

Donohue said the change in the joint employer standard was just the latest move by the administration "to overhaul labor law for their own purposes."Â (AP File Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chamber of Commerce: White House acted on net neutrality for political reasons

Sean Higgins · March 20, 2015 7:42 pm

Obama Poised to Veto GOP Bill Overriding Labor Board Rule

Mark Hemingway · March 20, 2015 5:00 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 target NLRB in attempt to roll back ‘micro-unions’

Sean Higgins · March 19, 2015 10:51 pm