Companies can be more confident that liability under the National Labor Relations Act will not flow from the misclassification of its workforce alone, thanks to a recent NLRB decision. Baker McKenzie attorneys call this welcome news for companies, but say they still must look at workforce relationships and properly classify independent contractors.
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On January 13, 2017, the US Supreme Court agreed to determine whether arbitration agreements that include class action waivers are legally enforceable under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In doing so, the Court granted the petitions for certiorari, and consolidated, three cases from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh and Ninth
On July 11, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board issued its opinion in Miller & Anderson, Inc., and held employer consent is no longer necessary for a union to organize a single bargaining unit consisting of both the employer’s regular employees and temporary workers that are supplied from other companies. In the wake of
