The Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a report last week discussing the outcome of investigations into fourteen (14) cases involving social media by the federal agency’s Division of Advise. In four cases of the fourteen, the NLRB found that workers were protected by Section 7 of the National Labor […]
Earlier this summer, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed new rules regarding workplace unionization elections. Specifically, the new rules would: provide for electronic filing of election petitions and other documents; ensure that employees, employers and unions receive and exchange timely information all parties need to understand and participate in the representation case process; standardize
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a final rule requiring most private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by posting a notice. This rule is scheduled to take effect on November 14, 2011. The notices explain the right to unionize under federal law,
The NYS-45 form (Quarterly Combined Withholdings, Wage Reporting and Unemployment Insurance Return) is a form which must be filed by New York State employers on a quarterly basis. Previously, employers were required to report to New York State the name, social security number and gross wages paid to each of its employees who
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Pre-employment training is a generally not covered by the FLSA, and thus not compensable. Depending on the structure of such a program, its participants may not even considered “employees”, and thus may not be covered by the FLSA. That determination will depend on all the circumstances surrounding the individual’s “training.” The United States
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Employers often ask me when it is necessary to pay employees for training time. The question has obvious effects on a company’s bottom line, as well as its relationship with its employees. In addition, if such training time is compensable, and if it brings the employee’s total work hours over forty (40) per week,
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A New York State Court judge on Long Island has held that a former employee has a First Amendment right to disseminate his claim that his former employer had lost personal data about its customers. The case arose from an employment dispute. In July, 2008, Cambridge Who’s Who Publishing (“Cambridge”), a Uniondale, Long
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In a first-of-its-kind case, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has informed an employer, Thomson Reuters, that it plans to file a civil complaint against that company for reprimanding an employer over a Twitter posting she had sent criticizing management of the company. The NLRB asserts that the company violated the employee’s right
Two owners of a Mexican restaurant chain in the Southwest were arrested last week and charged in federal court of knowingly hiring illegal immigrants as kitchen workers and committing tax fraud by paying them off-the-books. Specifically, the charges range from the unlawful hiring and harboring of illegal aliens to conspiracy to defraud the IRS
In late March, 2011, in a case entitled Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., the Supreme Court held that employees who make complaints to their employers regarding wage violations, even verbal ones, are protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The case arose after an employee made complaints to his former employer