Labor Relations Round-up, CliffsNotes style #NLRB

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Too busy for blogging

I am seemingly swamped for the rest of the year, so I just don’t blog anymore.  Every once in a while I get the itch, like a bad rash, but then it goes away.  I’m not sure this is a good thing, because I actually have more clarity about my daily work when I am blogging regularly. It’s one of many benefits of blogging that I am not taking advantage of right now.   To remedy this, I’m going to try an experiment.

I’m going to try brevity posts.   Typically, I’m starting with labor relations. Here’s a couple of big stories.

The NLRB is back in business, operating with a full slate of five members for the first time in a decade.  Think about just how f*cked up our political system must be for a governmental agency to go for a decade without a full complement.   Yay beer!  I mean, there has to be some justifiable reason for that, right?   Red Stripe is just as good an excuse as any other I can think of.  By the way, the new Board is not going to be a friend of HR, or business.

If you were in the restaurant business, you better buckle up.  All indications are that the string of one day strikes aimed at the fast food industry are about to expand massively, according to an interview with a union president behind the effort.

We’ll cap off this post with a dress code story about baseball caps at work from Lexology. 

An employer’s policy prohibiting employees from wearing baseball caps other than the employer’s is an unlawful restriction on employees’ Section 7 activity, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge has decided.  Quad Graphics, Inc., 32-CA-062242 (July 31, 2013).

 

 

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