By Eric B. Meyer Cue the haters. Following a decision earlier last week permitting employees to use company email to badmouth you and unionize, the … Read more
Why That NLRB Ruling About Employee’s Using Email is No Big Deal
By Eric B. Meyer The National Labor Relations Board says that your employees can use company email to badmouth you and unionize. Well, here are four … Read more
NLRB’s Expedited Election Rule: “A Solution in Search of a Problem”
By Ilyse Wolens Schuman Employee privacy and employer due process concerns were the focal point of Wednesday’s House Committee hearing on the National … Read more
Health Care Unions Turning to Ballot initiatives to Achieve Labor Goals
By Gregory A. Brown Recently, on opposite coasts, health care union have been pressing voter ballot initiatives to win concessions from hospitals and other … Read more
NLRB Schedules Public Meetings on “Ambush” Union Election Rule
By Michael J. Lotito The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled at least two public meetings to address the controversial re-proposal of a rule that … Read more
Nurses’ Unions Intensify Push For Legislation on Nurse-Patient Ratio
By Melissa L. McDonagh For several years, nurses’ unions have lobbied, with varying success, for legislation implementing nurse-patient ratios. The nurses’ … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The Secrets That Employees Don’t Want HR to Know
I wade through all sorts of content during the course of any given week, and a great deal of it is not particularly memorable. PR people pitch me all sorts … Read more
Supreme Court Clarifies Meaning of “Changing Clothes” Under FLSA
By Timothy J. Weatherholt This week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the time spent by employees donning and doffing (putting on and taking off) certain … Read more
Report Finds That Private Sector Unionization Ticked Up Last Year
By Michael J. Lotito While the overall percentage of union membership in the U.S. workforce remained unchanged at 11.3 percent in 2013, there was a slight … Read more
Weekly Wrap: What Kinds of Things Are Keeping HR Up at Night?
Editor’s note: This is the final Weekly Wrap of 2013. We’ll return in January 2014 with more weekly HR news and trends. It’s a question I hear people … Read more