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NLRB roundup Part 1: Obama Board continues apace reversing Bush Board decisions, expanding labor laws

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • October 14 2011

Since our last summary, the Obama Board has taken significant steps to further outgoing Chairman Liebman’s stated goal of bringing the Board “back to life after a long period of dormancy”

Supreme Court holds that employees under collective bargaining agreement are blocked from going to court on age discrimination claims, must arbitrate instead

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 3 2009

In 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett, a decision with significant practical ramifications for unionized employers, the United States Supreme Court, on April 1, 2009, held that employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement were required to arbitrate claims of age discrimination under the arbitration clause of that agreement instead of allowing them to sue in Court