Reinstated NLRB Rules and Union Organization: Lessons Learned From Amazon
Course Details
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On-Demand
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Employment and Workers Comp
- event Date
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
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90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
This CLE course will advise employment counsel on the status of reinstated NLRB rules and the Biden administration's current enforcement practices and priorities. The panel will discuss what comes next in union organization and NLRA actions after the vote of Amazon employees in Bessemer, Ala., to establish one of the company's only unions.
Mr. Garrison represents and counsels employers on a broad range of complex labor and employment matters, with a particular focus on traditional labor issues. Businesses nationwide rely on Mr. Garrison for practical guidance on challenging labor matters--including clients in the automotive, construction, healthcare, gaming, logistics, manufacturing and utility industries. He represents management by serving as the primary spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations, handling grievance arbitrations, and counseling clients on union organizing issues, work stoppages, and day-to-day contract administration issues. Mr. Garrison also has extensive experience in unfair labor practice and representation proceedings before the NLRB. He assists clients with the labor implications of corporate transactions, providing strategic advice and counseling on the labor law issues that can arise in mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and in facility consolidations, relocations and closings involving union and non-union facilities.
Concentrating in the area of employment and labor law and litigation for nearly 30 years, Ms. Yerger has amassed a wide range of knowledge and abilities to effectively advise both public and private-sector clients in state and federal courts in addition to administrative matters before the EEOC, PHRC, PLRB, and NLRB. She has developed extensive experience handling complex litigation arising from workplace disputes including sexual and racial harassment; age, race, gender, religion and disability discrimination, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and other claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Americans with Disabilities Act; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Family and Medical Leave Act; and the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law. Ms. Yerger has experience drafting and reviewing employment contracts, non-compete agreements, and separation/severance agreements. She routinely handles litigation in the federal district court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and has litigated commercial disputes, licensing issues, regulatory concerns and employment-related matters.
Under the prior administration, the NLRB took an unquestionably pro-employer position on many issues that impacted union organizing. Before the election, the current president claimed he would be the most pro-labor president in history. The current administration appears poised to follow through on that claim by reversing many of the prior administration's labor policies.
For example, many anticipate that the NLRB will reinstate union election procedures that permitted "ambush elections" and restore the rules allowing employee use of employer email systems for union organizing activity. Similarly, it is anticipated that the NLRB will ease the restriction on non-employee and union organizer access to employer property, reinstate the rules that made it easier for unions to organize “micro units” within facilities, and return to a less-stringent joint-employer standard. Needless to say, all of these actions may lead to a dramatic increase in union organizing activity.
Additionally, the vote in Bessemer, Ala., by Amazon warehouse employees has major ramifications for employees, employers, and communities. The process is a signal to union-free employers that they must continually assess workplaces by considering policies and procedures that enhance effective communication with employees.
Listen as our expert panel discusses the current state of the NLRB, the rules that have been reinstated, and what is most likely to come. The panel will advise what the Amazon union vote means for the future of labor organization in the U.S. and what the next steps are in the Alabama warehouse, as well as what impact increased union organizing has on non-union employers.
- Recent NLRB activity under Biden administration
- Proposed NLRB rule reinstatement/proposals
- Amazon warehouse union vote
- Best practices for union and non-union employers
- Anticipated NLRB future action
The panel will review these and other noteworthy issues:
- What NLRB rules have been reinstated, and which rules are the most likely to be reinstated/proposed under the Biden administration?
- How will the vote regarding unionizing by Amazon warehouse workers affect other employers?
- What questions remain for union and non-union employers following the anticipated changes to the NLRB?
- What steps should non-union and union employers anticipate to maintain NLRA compliance?
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