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March 2018

Some employers are asking whether they should collect employee email addresses.  The main concern is that under the NLRB "quickie election" rule, after a union files an election petition with the NLRB, the union is entitled to the email addresses of voting employees retained by the employer.  Thus, by collecting employee email addresses, the emp...
Over the last 25 years, the number of U.S. workers who are members of unions has dropped from about 16.7 million to about 14.8 million, even though the total workforce has grown significantly over that period of time.  According to Bloomberg Law Labor Data, however, the number of strikes has dropped six times faster, from 793 in 1990 to 102 in 2015. ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Thomas Homan said last October that he would quadruple ICE’s worksite enforcement efforts, but did not give any details.  Let us review a little history of ICE "raids" as they have been conducted in the past, and what it means for employers this year, particularly beginning with the new fiscal...