NLRB Division of Judges Releases 2024 Bench Book

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April 03, 2024 Washington, D.C - The Judges Division of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued an updated Bench Book, which replaces the last update issued in April 2023. The Bench Book serves as an NLRB trial manual and is designed to provide NLRB Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) with a reference guide during

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Region 32-Oakland Secures Settlement Requiring Lucid to Rescind Unlawful Severance Agreement Language

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March 20, 2024 On March 5, 2024, Region 32-Oakland Regional Director Valerie Hardy-Mahoney approved an agreement settling a case against Lucid Group, Inc. (Employer), an electric vehicle manufacturer, based on an unfair labor practice charge filed by its former employees who had been laid off under a May 2023 reduction in force. The unfair labor

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National Labor Relations Board General Counsel and Government of the Dominican Republic to Partner on Workplace Rights

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March 12, 2024 The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel today launched a partnership with the government of the Dominican Republic to build collaborations with their embassy and consulate in the United States and to work together to provide Dominican workers, their employers, and Dominican nationals who own businesses in the United States of America with

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NLRB’s Joint-Employer Rule Vacated by U.S. District Judge

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March 09, 2024 On Friday evening, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker of the Eastern District of Texas vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s recent rule on determining the standard for joint-employer status and the Board’s rescission of the 2020 joint-employer rule. Judge Barker had previously stayed the joint-employer rule until March 11, 2024. “The District Court’s

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U.S. District Judge Stays Joint-Employer Rule until March 11, 2024

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February 23, 2024 On February 22, 2024, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in the Eastern District of Texas stayed the effective date of the Board’s recent rule on determining the standard for joint-employer status until March 11, 2024. The new standard will only be applied to cases filed after the rule becomes effective. Established in 1935

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