Javier García

Dec 6, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Emily Edwards |Javier Garcia |Javier García |Michael Pratt

NLRB Changes Standard for Evaluating Employer Statements on Employee Access to Management in a Unionized Environment The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) overturned decades of precedent on November 8, 2024, by announcing a new, stricter standard to determine the lawfulness of employer statements regarding employee access to management in a unionized environment.

Jul 12, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Kelsey Cropper |Neal Fisher Jr. |Javier Garcia |Javier García

Over the years, California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) has provided a procedurally convenient means for employees to seek expansive penalties for employers’ alleged violations of California’s very technical wage-and-hour regulations. Historically, such recovery has been available without employees having to establish actual injury, commonality, or standing in the same ways required in class or individual actions brought under different theories.

Mar 6, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Javier Garcia |Javier García |Paul Smith

In 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the NLRB or Board) continued to expand employee rights and protections in the workplace.

Feb 14, 2024 | bailoutwatch.org | Lukas Ross |Javier Garcia |Javier García

A pipeline that would carry methane gas from Texas to be exported from the Pacific coast of Mexico is quickly clearing U.S. regulatory hurdles. But the entire prospect of exporting U.S. gas through Mexico looks increasingly shaky as the Biden administration takes a much-needed look at a host of problems caused by booming gas exports. Called the Saguaro Connector, the planned project already received a deeply flawed State Department approval in November.

Feb 14, 2024 | bailoutwatch.org | Lukas Ross |Javier Garcia |Javier García

A pipeline that would carry methane gas from Texas to be exported from the Pacific coast of Mexico is quickly clearing U.S. regulatory hurdles. But the entire prospect of exporting U.S. gas through Mexico looks increasingly shaky as the Biden administration takes a much-needed look at a host of problems caused by booming gas exports. Called the Saguaro Connector, the planned project already received a deeply flawed State Department approval in November.