For the second time in a month I am writing a supplemental post. The previous one, which you can find here was about the US Supreme Court decision that employers do not have to pay employees for the time they spend in post-shift security checks. This time we are circling back to an NLRB matter […]
NLRB General Counsel on Joint Employment: ‘The More (Employers) The Merrier’
Wow, this joint employment issue keeps rearing its ugly head, doesn’t it? Last week we looked at joint employment between a franchisor and a franchisee–McDonald’s to be exact. (Click here if you missed that one.) The NLRB is not just looking at joint employment between franchisors and franchisees, though. There is another case, Browning-Ferris, […]
NLRB General Counsel’s Joint Employer Ruling Leaves McDonald’s Feeling Dis-en-Franchised
I know I promised last week that I would write about the US Supreme Court case, Department of Homeland Security v. McLean. I thought about it this week though and realized that since it impacts federal employers only, and most of my readers are private sector employers that it might be better for me to break […]
Walmart’s “A Series of Unfortunate Lawsuits”
The next several weeks will be seemingly devoted to our nation’s largest retailer, second-largest corporation and largest private employer. In case you have not guessed, or if you missed last week’s post (you can click here if you did) that distinction goes to Wal-Mart. Now, we are not going to be appraising Wal-Mart’s general business […]
Who is Noel Canning —and Why Do We Care????!!!!
The U.S. Supreme Court just issued a few rulings on major cases, some of which impact employers. This week I’m just going to talk about one of them, Noel Canning v. N.L.R.B. Now I know, I’ve written about the N.L.R.B. several times, specifically, here, here, here, here , here, here, here, and here but this is different — […]