Five former employees of an Elm Grove security company that contracts with Milwaukee County claim their support of a county living wage ordinance cost them their jobs.

The employment bar was roiled last year when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a company policy requiring employees to keep interviews related to internal investigations confidential violated federal labor law.

After stirring up the bar with a pair of cases alleging that at-will employment clauses for non-union workers violated federal law by potentially stifling concerted activity, the National Labor Relations Board has issued guidance memos that offer some relief for employment-side attorneys.

In most American workplaces, at-will employment clauses in employee handbooks and agreements are as common as break room water coolers.

In a continuation of its growing trend of seeking to enforce the rights of all workers, including those in union-free work forces, the National Labor Relations Board added a page to its website last month dedicated to promoting protections of the National Labor Relations Act that apply to non-union and unionized employees alike. The stated target audience for this educational Web page is all American workers – your employees.

Smokers and pro football players have something in common: They engage in risky behavior that can be potentially harmful to their health over time.

The National Labor Relations Board has released the third in a series of memos that detail common pitfalls in employment social media policies.

The National Labor Relations Board has filed an appeal that could sort out if private businesses can be forced to post notices informing workers about their rights to join or form a union.

Employers have increasingly required workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

Lawsuits challenging the validity of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to two major federal agencies have cast a cloud of uncertainty over opinions and regulations being handed down and could result in years of additional litigation that will harm American businesses, lawmakers and attorneys warn.

Workplace social media use is a fertile ground for potential federal labor law violations, according to a new guidance memo released by the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board detailing the Board’s recent decisions on the issue.

The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the organization would take a wait-and-see approach in deciding whether to file a legal challenge over President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board, but added that a lawsuit could be forthcoming depending on the agencies’ actions.

One of the most contentious years in the National Labor Relations Board’s history ended amid controversy and now the New Year has begun with a brand new political hailstorm that could spell more confusion and uncertainty for labor attorneys.

Despite sobering unemployment numbers across the country, employment for lawyers continues to be promising in the hottest practice areas.

Several months after first proposing sweeping changes to streamline the union representation election process in June – the so-called “quickie election” rules – the National Labor Relations Board has approved a more modest, scaled back set of reforms.

Everyone knew that social networking was too prevalent not to have some impact on the workplace and labor laws. The only question was when.

Effective Jan. 31, covered employers -- which includes most private sector employers -- will be required to post in their workplaces the National Labor Relations Board's "Employee Rights" poster, and industry groups have already filed suit seeking to block this action by the NLRB.

The National Labor Relations Board has postponed the effective date of its controversial new notice-posting rule by more than two months.

Employees who were fired over comments made on Facebook were illegally terminated, an Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board has determined.

The House Republican agenda this fall will focus on repealing environmental and labor regulations that GOP lawmakers say are driving up the cost of doing business and discouraging employers from hiring new workers.

By Kimberly Atkins Dolan Media Newswires BOSTON — For the National Labor Relations Board, next year could be déjà vu all over again. Just last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the normally five-member NLRB, which is responsible for enforcing federal labor laws, acted without authority when it handed down nearly 600 decisions with only two active members. Today, the ...

In January, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the union membership rate among U.S. workers continued to decline in 2010, the new National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") adopted policies designed to facilitate union organizing.

An ongoing legal battle over whether a woman was improperly fired for criticizing her employer on Facebook will shed light on just what the boundaries of online communications are.