Legislative Director Update 7/30/18

Legislative Director Update 7/30/18 A brief Legislative Director update below. NLRB: The General Counsel’s office of the NLRB recently released additional Advice Memorandums. One of the memos focuses on an organization’s rules restricting the use of intellectual property and app user’s information. The General Counsel’s office found the rules restricting the use of intellectual property […]

Legislative Director Update 7/03/18

Legislative Director Update 7/03/18 A brief Legislative Director update below. Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court term that ended June 2018 included decisions on many topics important to workplace law, including class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements, public-sector “agency shop” arrangements, and the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “automobile dealer” overtime exemption. The Court also […]

Legislative Director Update 5/24/18

Legislative Director Update 5/24/18 The Supreme Court of the United States earlier this week held that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Supreme Court’s decision resolves the circuit split on whether class or collective action waivers contained in employment arbitration agreements violate the National Labor Relations […]