The Wiley Law Office will be taking a brief hiatus from updates as it heads north for the annual MPELRA Summer Conference. Look for both Greg and Ben during the conference, as Ben will be presenting Thursday afternoon on Total …
As football season approaches, we address a controversial issue in a somewhat different context. Prior to joining the Department of Energy as an Attorney Advisor, Jody TallBear was an activist in the Native American community and made it known she …
In our previous posts regarding the NLRB’s decision in The Boeing Company, we discussed the old standard for analyzing work rules set under Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, how the NLRB found that standard unwieldy and difficult to apply in many situations, …
The Paid Parental Leave movement has swept the nation in recent years, with the number of employers offering paid maternity leave rising almost ten percent in the last two years. The problem with that, as the EEOC sees it, is …
Last week, we discussed the NLRB’s old approach to analyzing work rules, and how the Board was often getting stuck on work rules that would possibly be interpreted by employees as restrictions on Section 7 rights under the NLRA. For …
As part of this three-part series, the Wiley Law Office will discuss a major change that took place recently at the National Labor Relations Board in how it evaluates employer work rules and whether they “chill” employee speech in regard …
In another case that seems ripe for appeal to District Court, an arbitrator reversed the City of Duluth’s decision to terminate an officer following the arbitrator’s finding that the officer used of excessive force and failed to report that use …
The Court kept us waiting as long as possible, but it finally came to a decision this morning in the case of Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, and sounded a death knell for fair share fees for public sector employees. …
The Wiley Law Office has been informed that, as expected, the Minnesota Supreme Court has granted review of the Court of Appeals’s decision in City of Richfield v. Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc. As we rarely see cases having to …
The Minnesota public labor community was already pretty taken aback at the Minnesota Court of Appeals’s decision in City of Richfield v. Law Enforcement Labor Services, which reversed an arbitrator’s decision returning an officer to duty after he was terminated …
