Code blue: NLRB judge finds hospitals’ e-mail and IT policies infirm under the NLRA *

USA - May 3 2013
Recently, an NLRB administrative law judge ruled that two policies maintained by subsidiaries of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ("UPMC")…

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NLRB advice memo: Boeing code of conduct lands on the right side of the law *

USA - March 15 2013
In a rare victory for employers, the NLRB's Office of the General Counsel, Division of Advice ("Advice") recently opined that Boeing Company's Code…

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Speak no evil: NLRB ALJ finds confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in quicken loans employment agreement violate the NLRA *

USA - January 11 2013
On Tuesday, an NLRB administrative law judge ruled that two provisions in an employment agreement signed by all of Quicken Loans, Inc.’s mortgage…

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And then there was one: federal court rejects plaintiffs' declarations and conditional certification of FLSA collective action, and then dismisses all but one named plaintiff *

USA - December 6 2012
Finding the declarations from plaintiffs to be unreliable, a federal judge in Pennsylvania recently denied conditional certification of an FLSA collective action arising out of allegedly unpaid overtime for a proposed nationwide class of more than 9,000 retail representatives employed by Crossmark, Inc. 

Co-authors: Julie G. Yap, Noah A. Finkel .

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D.C. Circuit rebuffs hospital’s challenge to NLRB health care rule *

USA - November 13 2012
Last Friday, the D.C. Circuit held that the NLRB properly certified the NUHHCE District 1199 NM as the representative of a “wall-to-wall” bargaining unit that included professional and nonprofessional employees of a New Mexico hospital, and found that the Hospital violated Sections 8(a)(1) and (5) of the NLRA when it refused to bargain with the union (San Miguel Hosp. Corp. v. NLRB, No. 11-1198, Nov. 2, 2012).

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