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The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled at least two public meetings to address the controversial re-proposal of a rule that would make significant amendments to the union representation election process.

Many companies have mandatory arbitration agreements with their employees. Those agreements often contain class and collective action waivers, meaning employees must bring their claims individually.

In a ruling that will affect most business relationships and extends far beyond either labor law or the concept of employment generally...

On May 30, 2012, Lafe Solomon, the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) Acting General Counsel (AGC), released a third report on social media cases brought before the NLRB.

A federal district court in Washington refused to require an employer, absent some notice from an employee of the need to do so, to investigate the cause of the employee’s poor performance to explore whether it might be caused by a known disability.

Last week, the federal judiciary released its caseload statistics for the last reporting year.

Despite 14 pages of vigorous dissent, a majority of a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit has done the right thing and joined the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits in holding that the National Bank Act preempts state wrongful discharge claims.

A plaintiff employer who files a lawsuit to enforce a noncompete often will seek a "preliminary injunction."

We are once again pleased to provide you with the latest edition of our annual analysis of trends and developments in EEOC enforcement, EEOC-Initiated Litigation: 2026 Edition.

Kimberly Wilkin worked as a registered nurse for the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula before the hospital terminated her employment...

A California appellate court addressed whether technical defects in attorney declarations can be corrected and whether unpaid nursing students qualify for sexual harassment protections.

The United States Supreme Court held that President Obama’s January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

From shifting NLRB standards and the fallout from the FTC's stalled noncompete rule to a growing patchwork of state pay transparency laws...

Leander Thurman sued Bayshore for alleged violations of the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 ("PAGA") and the Unfair Competition Law and, following a bench trial, a judgment was entered imposing civil penalties, including unpaid wages, against Bayshore in the total amount of $358,588 and awarding Thurman restitution in the amount of $28,605

The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a trial court's authority to reduce PAGA civil penalties using any reasonable methodology, rejecting arguments that reductions must follow a specific calculation framework.

The California Supreme Court addressed the split in appellate authority and held that trial courts do not have the inherent authority to strike a PAGA claim on manageability grounds.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held in Socko v. Mid-Atlantic Systems of CPA, Inc. that a non-compete is enforceable only if a current employee receives new consideration beyond continued employment.