Last week, the Supreme Court extended the deadline for initial briefs from April 28, 2017 to June 9, 2017 in three consolidated cases raising the issue whether arbitration agreements between individual employees and their employers that bar the employees from pursuing work-related claims on a collective or class basis are lawful under the National Labor

The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has instructed Regional Offices to hold in abeyance cases involving mandatory arbitration agreements with opt in or opt out clauses. Regions must do the same in cases where an employer argues that the class action waiver in its arbitration agreement is different than the one at

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements violate the National Labor Relations Act. The Supreme Court’s action promises the much-anticipated resolution of the circuit court split on the issue.  The Court on January 13, 2017, granted certiorari in National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA

The National Labor Relations Board has decided that “a single employee who files a lawsuit ostensibly on behalf of himself and other employees is engaged in protected concerted activity.” (Emphasis provided.) Beyoglu, 362 NLRB No. 152 (July 29, 2015).

Marjan (Mario) Arsovski was discharged after he filed a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action

Despite criticism from some United States Courts of Appeals, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has reasserted its position in D.R. Horton in which it held that class-action lawsuits are protected under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”).  Murphy Oil USA, Inc., 361 NLRB No. 72 (Oct. 28, 2014).

In its 2012 D.R. Horton