With COVID-19 causing most states to require their citizens to stay at home, employers face a challenge: what to do about their backlog of arbitration cases?
For some cases, it may not matter when they are heard and decided. However, for others, such as those involving the potential for a backpay award, a sooner-than-later case…
The National Labor Relations Act requires an employer that wants to terminate or modify an existing union contract to provide at least 30 days’ notice to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) and all the relevant state mediation agencies before terminating or modifying the contract. The possible consequences of failing to fully comply with…
Due to a lack of funding, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) mediators are prohibited from attending mediation session until the government shutdown ends and funding is available, Jackson Lewis has learned. According to the FMCS’s Contingency Plan for Agency Operations in the Absence of Appropriations, FMCS will continue to provide collective bargaining mediation…
