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From:Journal of Labor Research (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction For fiscal year 2001, the appropriation for the National Labor Relations Board (hereinafter the Board or NLRB) is $216.4 million or just over one-hundredth of one percent of total federal expenditures...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany quality circles and employee involvement programs violate a 1935 amendment to the National Labor Relations Act prohibiting management from setting up sham unions. Business groups have formally requested that the...
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From:Contemporary Economic Policy (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on employee participation (EP) and the legal status of EP programs. The effect of EP on firm performance theoretically is indeterminate. However, properly...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe past year certainly has been a year of significant change and controversy at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Although the furor concerning the possible enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act has...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEmployers should reevaluate the status of their employee participation programs in light of the NLRB's decision that such committees may constitute unlawful labor organizations. Companies should determine if the...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe authors of this article summarize a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Report addressing the unlawful nature of certain handbook policies under the National Labor Relations Act. Given the NLRB's increased focus...
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From:Journal of Business Strategy (Vol. 21, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOn July 10, 2000, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that non-unionized employees have the right to have, upon request, a co-worker representative present during disciplinary meetings. The decision is a...
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From:Loyola Law Review (Vol. 62, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION Pat Jameson has begun a corporate job with new co-workers and a new supervisor. Pat has finally caught a break after months of searching and landed a good job that pays a minimal base salary with a...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany employers will, no doubt, welcome the United States Supreme Court's decision in Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett. However, Penn Plaza raises a number of questions concerning the potential effects that arbitration of...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 113, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTraditional labor relations On December 5, 1989, the Supreme Court decided two cases that raised issues under the National Labor Relations Act.(15) The first, Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers, Local 6,(16) involved a...
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From:American Journal of Law & Medicine (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in Beverly Enterprises v. NLRB that nurses employed as team leaders did not meet the Sectiion 2(11) of the National Labor Relations Act's definition of supervisors...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that an employer did not violate the National Labor Relations act by maintaining a policy that prohibits employee use of the employer's email system for "non-job-related...
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From:Employee Relations Law Journal (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe authors examine the current state of the law regarding the use of union insignia and emblems. The National Labor Relations Act (1) (NLRA) guarantees that: The NLRA, of course, also protects the rights...
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From:UMass Law Review (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe realities of low-wage work in the United States challenge our basic notions of freedom and equality. Many low-wage workers share the condition of being stuck in jobs toiling excessive hours against their will for...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 48, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION Tin Aye emigrated from a refugee camp in Thailand to Colorado in 2007 with her husband and two children. She worked at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley. On May 17, 2020, she died of complications from...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 132, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the childcare and home-care sectors of the "care economy," wages are low and working conditions are poor, driving high turnover and inadequate access to care. This Note introduces the concept of "public-private...
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From:Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION For many employees, blogs have become "virtual union halls" where employees can connect, building social ties and reducing the isolation inherent in present-day American life. (1) Employees, even...
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From:Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (Vol. 51)Introduction In 2009, Arisleyda Tapia, mother to then five-year-old Ashley, lived in New York City and worked thirty hours a week at McDonald's. (1) Tapia was one of the first fast-food employees to join the "Fight...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 129, Issue 7)EMPLOYMENT LAW--NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT--NLRB CLASSIFIES CANVASSERS AS EMPLOYEES, NOT INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.--Sisters' Camelot, 363 N.L.R.B. No. 13 (Sept. 25, 2015). What it means to "work" is changing. Many...
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From:Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (Vol. 27) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In the past several years, researchers and pundits have spoken about the growth of the US Latino community in very narrow terms. The national discourse has mainly focused on the electoral impact our...