The Board issued an interesting decision discussing an employer's successful efforts to repudiate unlawful conduct, which we'll get to in a minute.

The NLRB has been in a period of dormancy.

As we hurtle toward Labor Day, and the probable onslaught of decisions, and as NLRB Member Pearce's tenure ends on August 27, the Board has been issuing a steady stream of cases.

The Department of Labor fully rescinded the 2016 changes made to the Persuader Rules. The DOL concluded that the 2016 rule changes "exceeded the authority of the Labor-Management Reporting ...

Since December 2017, when the Board issued a number of decisions which restored precedent that had been changed in the last few years, (discussed here, here, here, and here) ...

One area of labor relations that continues to vex practitioners is the scope of the so-called Weingarten rights. NLRB v. J. Weingarten Inc., 420 U.S. 251 (1975).

By a vote of 50 to 48 the U.S. Senate confirmed Republican John Ring as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, giving the agency a full five member complement. Member Ring ...

The Board is now operating at a full complement and is issuing decisions on a fairly regular basis. Nothing earth shattering in terms of law (which is kind of a relief) ...

As we previously reported here, here and here, the NLRB's "joint employer" standard has vacillated over the last several years, and currently remains in flux.

My 16-year-old daughter, Helena, recently expressed an interest in helping veterans for a high school service project.

As we have seen, there are few things that can be counted on in labor relations. Oftentimes, several experts look at the same problem and come to vastly different conclusions ...

The past few weeks on the Labor Board front have been fairly routine, save for, of course, the high drama associated with the NLRB reversing its own decision ...

As we have noted previously, the make-up of the Board currently stands at four out of five total members, divided evenly between two warring factions making it pretty much impossible to change the law which requires a majority.

The Board currently has only four members and so law-changing decisions are less likely to occur until a new member is confirmed.

In the last few years, December has been a time of change at the NLRB.