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As Dems Mull Reconciliation, NLRA Civil Penalties Are Worth Fighting for

Jul 28, 2021 Benjamin Sachs, Tascha Shahriari-Parsa and Maxwell Ulin

Recently, Senate Democrats have begun discussing plans to enable the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to levy civil monetary penalties on employers who commit unfair labor practices (ULPs) as part of their broader reconciliation bill on infrastructure. While specifics are so far lacking, the proposal is based on what House Democrats already put forward in […]

July 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided, party-line vote to end Senate debate on the nominee, marks an end to a bitterly partisan Senate debate […]

July 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the White House announced that President Biden plans to issue an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to restrict businesses’ use of employee non-compete agreements. So-called “non-competes”, which ban or restrict workers from seeking similar jobs at rival firms, are employed by roughly half of all private-sector businesses in the United States […]

June 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the organizing rights of California farmworkers yesterday, ruling in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 141 S. Ct. 891 (2021) that state regulations issued under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA) to unions farm access constituted a per se physical taking that required just compensation under the […]

June 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has published its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) to its website this morning. The rule mandates that covered employers implement comprehensive COVID-19 safety plans, install barriers and improved ventilation, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees, enforce social distancing, and grant employees paid time off for vaccinations and […]

May 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

President Joe Biden intends to nominate Gwynne Wilcox, a union-side labor lawyer, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the White House announced yesterday. As a senior partner at Levy Ratner and associate general counsel for SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East in New York, Wilcox made waves through a landmark unfair labor practice case […]

May 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced that members had voted to advance three nominees for labor-policy posts in the Biden Administration. The Committee voted 14-8 in favor of the nomination of Jocelyn Samuels for Democratic Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and by the same margin […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

April 15, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

On Wednesday, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) unveiled a draft proposal for a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. Among other things, the proposed bill would require states to offer a minimum 26 weeks of unemployment benefits equal to at least 75% of an employee’s former weekly wages, […]

April 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

It really, truly is infrastructure week this time. Yesterday, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s $2.5 trillion economic revitalization package, proposing massive new federal investments in transportation infrastructure, broadband, manufacturing, affordable housing, and care services, among other measures. The package, dubbed the “American Jobs Plan,” seeks expressly to create “union” jobs and stresses the importance […]

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