The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the second appellate court to strike down the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) August 2011 regulation requiring businesses to post notices of an employee’s right to unionize, finding that the NLRB exceeded its authority when it ordered businesses to display an 11-by-17-inch notice in a prominent location explaining the rights of workers to join a union and bargain collectively.
06-17-2013 The legal challenge over the 2010 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regulation requiring most private-sector employers to post notices of an employee’s right to unionize could be headed to the Supreme Court after the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and struck down the regulation.
05-20-2013 The federal district judge who earlier this year struck down a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ambush elections rule, which would have accelerated the timeframe allowed for union elections, has denied the NLRB’s request that he reconsider the decision citing the board’s inability to expand and improve its argument.
08-06-2012 The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week overturned the NLRB’s ambush elections rule.
05-21-2012 The U.S. Senate last week voted 45-54 against a joint resolution, S.J. Res. 36, that sought to overturn a NLRB rule reducing the amount of time between a request by workers to form a union and the balloting.
04-30-2012 The NLRB’s rule requiring employers to post notices of an employee’s right to unionize is on hold, after a federal court in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary injunction.
04-23-2012 Effective April 30, the NLRB’s new rules governing union election procedures will take effect.
04-16-2012 Effective April 30, employers are required to post notices informing their employees of their rights to unionize.
04-16-2012