President Donald Trump has nominated R. Alexander Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. His nomination comes one day after Andrew Puzder, Trump’s first pick to lead the Department of Labor, withdrew his nomination.
Acosta, currently the Dean of Florida International University’s law school, is the son of Cuban immigrants. If confirmed, Acosta would be the…
According to reports, Andrew Puzder, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for Department of Labor Secretary, has withdrawn his name from consideration. This comes on the heels of a Washington Post report that seven Republican Senators were set to vote against his nomination.
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States carries with it the possibility of major changes in the field of labor law. The most significant changes likely will come at the National Labor Relations Board. Currently, the five-member NLRB has a 2 to 1 Democratic (and pro-labor) majority, with…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota today ruled in Labnet Inc. d/b/a Worklaw Network, et al v. United States Department of Labor, et al, that the plaintiffs have a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their lawsuit challenging the DOL’s new “persuader” rule, but refused to stay or enjoin …
Fourteen state attorneys general have written to Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez complaining that the Department of Labor’s proposed “persuader” rule would undermine attorney-client privilege and have requested the rule “be withdrawn as drafted.”
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) requires reporting to the DOL of “[a]ny agreement or arrangement with a labor relations…
The Department of Labor’s proposed final revisions to its rule requiring employers and others to report arrangements, receipts, and expenditures derived from providing services defined as persuasive activities will not be implemented by the March 2014 target date. A new implementation date was not announced. This is the second delay for the revisions, which originally…
Publication of the Department of Labor’s final revisions to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), requiring employers and others to report arrangements, receipts, and expenditures derived from providing services defined as persuasive activities, has been delayed until March 2014, according to the DOL’s latest regulatory agenda. The proposed revisions to the LMRDA would change…
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a neutrality agreement between a Florida greyhound track and a union improperly delivered a “thing of value” in violation of the Labor Management Relations Act.
Traditionally, when a union has sought to organize the employees of an employer and the employer decided it wanted to…
