May 26th 2022
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After years of appointees with narrower views of the scope of workers' rights during the Trump Administration, President Biden has begun to reverse that course. Judge Jennifer Sung, a former union-side labor lawyer and Oregon state labor board member, is now...
In 2019, I wrote about how the NLRB’s decision in Ridgewood Health Care Centertook away one of the few effective remedies for employer misconduct. This was a case where a new employer took over a business and refused to hire the predecessor’s employees to...
President Biden—who promised to be the most pro-union president in history—is coming under fire for nominating a management-side labor and employment lawyer to the Federal Bench. In an essay in Slate, Jenny Hunter criticized Biden’s nomination of Christine O’Hearn...
With newfound control of the executive and legislative branches, Democrats are considering a raft of much-needed legislative reforms, in the labor and employment world and beyond. But with the federal courts largely captured by right-wing and corporate interests,...
Major airlines are threatening massive layoffs if air travel does not increase soon. United Airlines gave notice to 36,000 employees—nearly half of its US workers—that they may be laid off by October if federal aid expires, Bloomberg reports. Similarly, Southwest...