Could it be that the place where I buy cheap bananas is about to sink the National Labor Relations Board?
NLRB’s new joint-employer standard: How it impacts long-term care facilities
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Jennifer Long
Dec 21, 2023
Does your long-term care facility exercise either direct or indirect control of the work conditions for all the outside caregivers and other workers who are on your campus regularly? This will be the important...
When judges play favorites
By
John O'Connor
Aug 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board gave skilled care operators another kick to the gut Friday.
Labor Board strikes blow to unions, ruling that nonmembers can’t be forced to pay for lobbying expenses
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 05, 2019
Healthcare unions have been dealt a defeat with the National Labor Relations Board ruling that nonmembers cannot be forced to pay for labor groups’ lobbying fees.
Employee mandatory flu shot policy provokes outrage — and a lawsuit
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Oct 27, 2017
A Minnesota-based healthcare provider that operates long-term care facilities, hospitals and clinics is on the receiving end of a lawsuit slamming its mandatory influenza vaccination policy.
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Conversations nursing home management should not have via emails
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Howard Kurman
Jun 09, 2014
There have been countless nursing home managers, supervisors, and even HR executives, who have committed impolitic comments about employees in email messages. Those comments often become evidence in cases...
NLRB revisits rules that would speed up union elections; House members object
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 10, 2014
The National Labor Relations Board is again recommending changes that would allow union organizers to speed up elections, drawing the ire of some House Republicans.
Deal cut by Senate Republicans likely to cause labor pains
By
John O'Connor
Jul 22, 2013
For many long-term care operators, labor relations might soon get even more challenging. And Senate Republicans are to blame, er, thank.
Obama makes National Labor Relations Board recommendations
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Ashley Carman
Jul 18, 2013
The U.S. senate confirmed President Obama’s new NLRB nominees yesterday, fulfilling a bipartisan deal to avoid Democrat filibuster changes and resolve the NLRB’s recess appointee issue.