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NLRB Revises Workplace Rules Standards

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
08/03/2023
Handbooks/Policies, Labor Law, Legal Developments, NLRB, Protected Concerted Activity, Union Activity
As has been anticipated for some time, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in Stericycle, Inc. (Aug. 2, 2023), adopted a new standard for determining whether workplace rules are lawful under the National Labor Relations Act.  The new standard is similar to the analysis used prior to the Board’s 2017 decision in Boeing Co. Under the Stericycle framework, the lawfulness of workplace rules under the NLRA turns on whether workers would view...
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Handbook Receipt Language Dooms Mandatory Arbitration Clause

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
04/27/2022
Arbitration, Handbooks/Policies
Around the corner from our law offices is Nationwide Motor Sales Corporation (NMSC).  NMSC has been sued by a collection of current and former sales persons who claim Nationwide failed to pay them more than $1 million in commissions.  In response to the filed lawsuit, NMSC moved to compel arbitration, citing the Arbitration Agreement that is contained within its Employee Handbook.  The Fourth Circuit just held, in Coady v. Nationwide Motor Sales...
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D.C. Laws To Take Effect on Workplace Postings and Notices, and Sexual Harassment Training and Reporting

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
10/08/2020
Employer Training, Handbooks/Policies, Legislative Developments, Sexual Harassment, State Law
Before we get into the new requirements, some legislative history is warranted.  In 2018, the District of Columbia passed the Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act, designed to, among other things, repeal an initiative that would have eliminated the tip credit system in D.C.  That 2018 law mandated local government funding before several provisions of the statute could be implemented that include the postings and sexual harassment training...
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Starbucks New Dress Code Lets Baristas Get Creative With More Than Just Frappucinos

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
07/28/2016
Handbooks/Policies
I always enjoy when I can write about topics or interests in my personal life, that cross into my professional life (see my blog post from the beginning of the year on CrossFit and an FBI male applicant's sex discrimination claim).  As an avid coffee drinker (an Americano with cinnamon is my go to), I could not resist the chance to write about Starbucks recently updated and very publicized "relaxed" dress code announced earlier this week:  "The...
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