Earlier this week, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo released a memo urging Biden’s pro-union Board to declare that employers can no longer hold “captive audience” meetings. “Captive audience” meetings, which are currently permitted, occur when employers hold mandatory meetings, during working hours, to present facts, opinions, and reasons to vote against forming a union during an election campaign.
Archives for April 10, 2022
CDF Webinar: Trouble in Paradise? Challenges to the PAGA Paradigm and What They Mean for California Employers
Clouds lurk over the once-golden state of PAGA. California courts have finally started to take aim at unwieldy representative claims alleging numerous violations against all non-exempt employees across the state. The United States Supreme Court will soon determine whether federal arbitration laws can be effectively used to preempt PAGA claims and, if so, to what extent. At the same time, California voters will soon have an opportunity to eliminate PAGA altogether at the ballot box. The landscape may be changing in the world of PAGA.
Starbucks union campaign pushes on, with at least 16 stores now organized.
Workers at six more stores in upstate New York have voted to unionize.
Find Joy in Any Job: Why Am I Unhappy at Work?
Part one of our special series with Marcus Buckingham on how to design your work to focus on what you love.
How DAOs Could Change the Way We Work
Decentralized autonomous organizations may offer a model for more fulfilling and fairer work.
New Title IX rules set to assert rights of transgender students
Discrimination against transgender students would be a violation of federal civil rights law under proposed regulations the Education Department is expected to finalize in the coming weeks.
10 Lessons HR Leaders Have Learned By Utilizing Workforce Analytics
Whether your company needs to diversify its leadership roles, streamline a lengthy talent search, implement a better way of tracking employee overtime hours or reduce the advertising budget by Q3, each goal is no small feat.
Women are not mini-men, let’s stop treating them like such in the workplace
Thirty years ago, a large nationwide auto parts chain faced bankruptcy. The board had heard about a young executive well-known in the aftermarket for modernizing stores and in a Hail Mary move, decided to make an unusual hire.
COVID-19 and the New Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the American workforce, especially those 50 and older. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, workers have left their jobs in record numbers in what is being called “The Great Resignation.”
Why Workplace Vaccine Mandates Are Complicated
As COVID-19 cases decline across the United States and as employees are starting to return to the workplace, many employers are now looking to recalibrate their traditional business strategies.
When the workplace is no longer just one place
Forward-thinking HR teams are setting their organizations up for success by facilitating a mindset shift to “work from wherever, whenever.”
Workers Have Been Fighting Automation Ever Since Capitalism Began
Automation didn’t start in the age of robots and microchips. In the late 19th century, employers used machinery to break the power of skilled glass workers, and helped launch firms like Coca-Cola on a path to global domination.
Restoring cost-of-living pension hikes for N.J. public workers gets new life as inflation soars
As the U.S. continues to face soaring inflation, a decade-old debate over restoring automatic cost-of-living adjustments to the pensions of retired government workers in New Jersey is bubbling again.
Declining labor participation rate puts squeeze on businesses seeking workers
Area employers are seeing some improvement in the number of available workers as the COVID-19 pandemic eases, but long-term challenges to finding an adequate number of employees remain.