Jeffrey Risch

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Risch

Despite head-turning decisions issued in recent years by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) designed to help labor unions in their organizing efforts, a concentrated government push towards union-only Project Labor Agreements—and many state legislatures passing laws intended to limit an employer’s right to even discuss the good, bad, and ugly of union membership—the union membership rate dropped in 2024 to another all-time low.

Dec 27, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Risch

Now that dust has settled from the November 2024 election, here’s what employers should reasonably expect under the incoming Trump administration with a republican controlled Congress and a U.S. Supreme Court that is generally right-leaning. Impact on Federal Laws and RegulationsAs with any new administration, employers can expect that President-Elect Trump will move in a completely different direction and appoint new leadership to run federal agencies.

Nov 18, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Risch

Since 1948, employers could lawfully require employee attendance at on the clock captive audience meetings, even under threat of discharge or discipline. That changed this week as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in Amazon.com Services LLC and Dana Joann Miller and Amazon Labor Union, outright banned mandatory meetings at which an employer expresses its views on unionization and educates workers on the good, bad, and ugly of union membership (“captive audience meeting”).

Aug 12, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Risch

Friday, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 3650 (SB 3650), which amends the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act (the “Act”) -- AGAIN. This is the 3rd major amendment to the Act in just over a year. The impact of the changes are effective immediately. The latest amendments are primarily focused on clarifying pieces of the massive changes to the staffing industry ushered in last August through House Bill 2862 (HB 2862).

Jul 11, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Risch

On June 24, 2024, a federal district court judge enjoined parts of the United States Department of Labor’s (US DOL's) August 23, 2023 prevailing wage rule that greatly expanded the definition of “construction” on federal prevailing wage projects. Such expansion of what constitutes covered “construction” work on federal prevailing wage projects was never contemplated by the actual federal prevailing law itself (the Davis-Bacon Act or DBA).