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Jan 22, 2025 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Aaron Graves |Cameron Ritsema |Bodman PLC
On October 14, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024, increased nearly 30% from the same period the year before and more than doubled from the same period in 2021. Why Have Union Certification Petitions Increased? A significant factor driving the increase of union certification petitions is the NLRB’s August 2023 Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLP decision.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Mackenzie Clark |Cameron Ritsema
Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will become effective on February 21, 2025. Last minute bills have been introduced by both the House and Senate, designed to address serious issues ESTA presents to Michigan employers. On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the first day of the 103rd Michigan Legislature, the Senate introduced a bill to modify ESTA. The very next day, the House introduced its own bill.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bodmanlaw.com | Cameron Ritsema |Mackenzie Clark
Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will become effective on February 21, 2025. Last minute bills have been introduced by both the House and Senate, designed to address serious issues ESTA presents to Michigan employers. On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the first day of the 103rd Michigan Legislature, the Senate introduced a bill to modify ESTA. The very next day, the House introduced its own bill.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Aaron Graves |Cameron Ritsema
Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience Meetings,” were permitted other than during the 24-hour “cooling off period” immediately preceding a union representation election. On November 13, 2024, there was a sea change in the Board’s position.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bodmanlaw.com | Aaron Graves |Cameron Ritsema
Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience Meetings,” were permitted other than during the 24-hour “cooling off period” immediately preceding a union representation election. On November 13, 2024, there was a sea change in the Board’s position.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Aaron Graves |Cameron Ritsema
On October 14th, The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, more than doubled from the same period in 2021. Petitions were up nearly 30% from the same period in 2023. Why have Union Certification Petitions Increased? A significant factor is the NLRB’s August 2023 Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLP decision. Cemex shifted the burden of proving claims of support from unions to employers.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
bodmanlaw.com | Aaron Graves |Cameron Ritsema
On October 14th, The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, more than doubled from the same period in 2021. Petitions were up nearly 30% from the same period in 2023. Why have Union Certification Petitions Increased? A significant factor is the NLRB’s August 2023 Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLP decision. Cemex shifted the burden of proving claims of support from unions to employers.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Milton’ below |Cameron Ritsema
In a widely anticipated ruling, Judge Ada E. Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a Texas-based tax firm to block the FTC’s Final Rule banning most non-compete agreements – writing that the FTC’s rule is “unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation[]” and that “the FTC exceeded its statutory authority in implementing the [Final] Rule ….” Ryan LLC et al., v.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bodmanlaw.com | John T. Below |Cameron Ritsema
In a widely anticipated ruling, Judge Ada E. Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a Texas-based tax firm to block the FTC’s Final Rule banning most non-compete agreements – writing that the FTC’s rule is “unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation[]” and that “the FTC exceeded its statutory authority in implementing the [Final] Rule ….” Ryan LLC et al., v.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
hrdailyadvisor.blr.com | Cameron Ritsema |Bodman PLC
Union-organizing efforts aren’t limited to historical union strongholds like manufacturing, construction, and the public sector. Even though unions currently represent only about 1.3% of the financial services industry, they’re looking to organize financial services employees. Case in point: On December 20, 2023, Wells Fargo branch employees in Albuquerque, New Mexico, voted 5 to 3 in favor of joining the Communications Workers of America Union (CWA).
