Topics include the employee protections under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), including protected activity and social media; when overtime pay is required under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the definition of a workweek.
Ask the Experts: Employment Law Podcast (NLRA Protections, Defining the Workweek, and More)3/28/2016 Rod Tanner discusses new developments in employment law and the National Labor Relations Act.
Topics include the employee protections under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), including protected activity and social media; when overtime pay is required under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the definition of a workweek.
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Ask the Experts: Employment Law Podcast (Northwestern University, the Joint Employer Test, and More)3/1/2016 Rod Tanner discusses new developments in employment law and the National Labor Relations Act.
Topics include the Labor Board's decision in the Northwestern University case relating to the unionization of college student-athletes; which companies qualify as employers under the NLRA; and the joint employer test. Rod Tanner discusses new developments in employment law and the National Labor Relations Act.
Topics include the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), when an employer is required to pay overtime, the definition of a workweek, FLSA exemptions, improperly classified employees, and at-will employment. On October 9, 2015, the Texas Employment Lawyers Association held its annual conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. At the conference, Rod Tanner gave a presentation discussing recent developments relating to whistleblower retaliation law.
On September 18-19, 2015, the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Texas held its 26th Annual Labor and Employment Law Institute in San Antonio, Texas. At the conference, Glenda Pittman (Austin) and Fito Agraz (Ogletree Deakins, Dallas) gave a presentation discussing recent developments relating to the National Labor Relations Board.
By Matt Pierce
This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rejected a bid to unionize student-athletes who receive grant-in-aid scholarships to play football for Northwestern University. However, the Board did not reach the question of whether the Northwestern football players qualify as employees under the National Labor Relations Act, which was the central question in the case. Ask the Experts: Employment Law Podcast (The ADEA, the ADA, Employer Retaliation, and More)6/23/2015 Rod Tanner discusses new developments in employment law and the National Labor Relations Act.
Topics include prohibited employment policies and practices within the jurisdiction of the EEOC, ADEA, and ADA, including what employers are prohibited to put in job advertisements, hiring practices, Title VII, wages, benefits, termination or lay-offs and discrimination; and harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace; and retaliation. By Edith Thomas
On June 1, 2015, the Supreme Court issued a decision in a religious accommodation claim, EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. The opinion was authored by Scalia and joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, with a concurring opinion by Alito and Thomas filing an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. Ask the Experts: Employment Law Podcast (EEOC, Job Advertisements, Sexual Harassment, and More)6/4/2015 Rod Tanner discusses new developments in employment law and the National Labor Relations Act. Topics include prohibited employment policies and practices under the jurisdiction of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including job advertisements; hiring practices; discrimination in terminations and lay-offs; and sexual harassment in the workplace.
On May 12, 2015, Rod Tanner gave a presentation with Danielle E. Needham (Jackson Walker L.L.P., Fort Worth) at the University of Texas School of Law's 22nd Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference in Austin, Texas. Tanner and Needham's presentation, titled Recent Developments Under the National Labor Relations Act, discussed several significant issues addressed by the National Labor Relations Board over the past year, including the regulation of employer email policies and the expansion of the joint employer doctrine.
Click here to read the full paper co-authored by Tanner and Needham and presented at the conference. |
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