by Sean M. Kramer & Maria Anastas
Aug 3, 2020
On July 21, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in General Motors LLC, 369 NLRB No. 127 (2020), overruling decades of precedent granting employees considerable freedom to engage in abusive or offensive conduct in connection with union or other...
by Davis Jenkins & Arthur G. Sapper
Jul 27, 2020
On July 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a new interpretation of the hospitalization reporting requirement of 29 C.F.R. § 1904.39(b)(6), one that states that employers “must report the...
by Lisa M. Bowman & Karen F. Tynan
Jul 23, 2020
As employees return to work, some employers are asking if there could be another tool to detect COVID-19 in the workplace: detection dogs. Traditionally, the military has used detection dogs to find bombs, and law enforcement has used them to sniff out narcotics,...
by Mark A. Konkel, Maria Biaggi & Nicholas J. Kromka
Jul 21, 2020
The coronavirus has been novel in more ways than one. On one end of the spectrum, employers confront new questions of almost philosophical dimensions. How much risk is too much risk? What risks should we ask our employees to accept? Where is the line between ordinary...
by Jason R. Stanevich & Maura A. Mastrony
Jul 9, 2020
After months of permitting almost exclusively mail ballot elections due to concerns surrounding the spread of COVID-19, the National Labor Relations Board released “suggested” protocols on July 6, 2020 for holding manual elections. These protocols will facilitate a...
